In the past couple weeks, Bryson DeChambeau had been hitting it well, just not scoring.<\/p>\n
On the 10th hole Thursday at LIV Golf Adelaide, it was the opposite.<\/p>\n
DeChambeau caught his drive a little thin \u2013 some would say topped \u2013 his ball diving into a front teeing area, getting some help from the cart path and traveling only about 240 yards.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a great line drive into the tee box and bounced it off the cart path,\u201d DeChambeau said. \u201cI had a nice scuff mark. Some kid has a nice scuff marked ball out there.\u201d<\/p>\n
The worm-burner left DeChambeau 287 yards into the green at the 529-yard, par-5. Yet, DeChambeau recovered nicely, launching a 3-wood nearly pin high to set up a two-putt birdie from 27 feet.<\/p>\n
The birdie was one of seven for DeChambeau on the day. He birdied three of his final four holes to shoot 6-under 66 and share the first-round lead with Marc Leishman. Dustin Johnson and his new 4Aces teammate Anthony Kim are both a shot back, followed by Jon Rahm, Joaquin Niemann, Abraham Ancer and Graeme McDowell at 4 under.<\/p>\n
Surprised by DeChambeau\u2019s top? Well, he\u2019s done it before, he says.<\/p>\n
\u201cLast time I did that was 2021 Players Championship off the fourth tee box, and it cost me The Players,\u201d said DeChambeau, though on that occasion, he topped a hybrid.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut that shot [today] was more of a thin shot. I just hit too far down on the ball. I actually struck it nicely. It was a perfect strike right into the tee box. It was awesome. Got to make sure I don\u2019t hit it with too negative an attack angle next time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the past couple weeks, Bryson DeChambeau had been hitting it well, just not scoring. On the 10th…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-467013","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}