When a golfer has previously declared that the Masters course is, in fact, a par 67 and then proceeded, two days later, to make the cut only narrowly, before being beaten by a 63-year-old Bernhard Langer, it is perhaps wise to take his statements with a handful of bunker sand.<\/p>\n
Yet, after a sixth and a fifth-place finish in his past two escapades around Augusta, there is plenty to suggest that Bryson DeChambeau has, indeed, found the humility to navigate Dr Alister MacKenzie\u2019s malevolent layout.<\/p>\n
His words, as the hours ticked down to the 90th Masters, strengthen the conviction that the 32-year-old has learnt his lesson<\/a> and is now ready to pass one of the great tests in his profession.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s about having more patience and not being as aggressive all the time,\u201d DeChambeau said here on Tuesday. \u201cIt\u2019s about knowing where to be gung-ho and when not to be. That is the thing \u2013 make better decisions. And it\u2019s about having a caddie that reins me in sometimes and you can say: \u2018Bryson, you don\u2019t need to do that \u2013 there\u2019s just no need.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Good luck to Greg Bodine, known in the caddieshack as \u201cGee-Bo\u201d, because DeChambeau is headstrong. He believes in his own brainpower and genius \u2013 and then some \u2013 and is prepared to fail because of his own belief. He referenced his frankly daft \u201c67\u201d comment<\/a> from 2020 and explained to Telegraph Sport why he does not regret it. Not for himself, anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When a golfer has previously declared that the Masters course is, in fact, a par 67 and then…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[3025,5904,59649,2623,217,101,5438,10509,58919,56,54,55,157732],"class_list":{"0":"post-520866","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-bryson-dechambeau","9":"tag-golf","10":"tag-liv-golf-invitational-series","11":"tag-rory-mcilroy","12":"tag-sport","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-standard","15":"tag-the-masters","16":"tag-top-story","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-unitedkingdom","20":"tag-us-content"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}