Now, the LIV Golf star’s content creation has taken a unique turn: he’s trying to hit a hole-in-one… over his house.
That’s right. DeChambeau’s latest endeavor is hitting wedge shots from his driveway, over his towering roof and onto a green in his backyard. And there’s a twist. He’s only hitting as many shots as days he has done the challenge. So Tuesday, when the first video came out, he hit one shot. Wednesday, he got two, and Thursday will be three, and so on.
He’s posting the videos on TikTok. Here’s a look at the first two.
The 2024 U.S. Open champion has been busy since his victory at Pinehurst No. 2 in June. Whether it’s playing on the LIV Golf League, various media appearances or recording content for his YouTube channel, DeChambeau has been everywhere, and the U.S. Open trophy has accompanied him for many of the journeys.
On Saturday, DeChambeau took the U.S. Open trophy to the SMU football game against Pittsburgh, a ranked matchup featuring two of the top teams in the ACC this season. He was honored during the game, but the highlight came when DeChambeau was shown with the trophy in the student section.
Professional golfer Bryson DeChambeau rides onto the field in a Mustang car with two SMU cheerleaders and the US Open trophy before the game against the Pittsburgh Panthers at Gerald J. Ford Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jerome Miron-Imagn Images
Imagine going to a football game with your friends, and all of the sudden you look up and it’s one of the best golfers in the world holding a major championship trophy while celebrating a touchdown.
Billed as The Showdown, it will pit the PGA Tour’s two biggest stars against two standouts from LIV Golf.
The made-for-TV match pitting Rory McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler against Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka finally has a home and a date.
Golfweek first reported plans for the event on Sept. 4, but the host course and date had not been agreed at that time. The match will take place at Shadow Creek Golf Course in Las Vegas on Tuesday, Dec. 17. A formal announcement is expected later.
Billed as The Showdown, it will pit the PGA Tour’s two biggest stars against two standouts from LIV Golf and will air on TNT. Timing of the broadcast has not yet been confirmed, though multiple sources say it will conclude during prime time on the East Coast.
In a statement to Golfweek confirming the match last month, McIlroy said, “This isn’t just a contest between some of golf’s major champions; it’s an event designed to energize the fans. We’re all here to put on a great show and contribute to a goodwill event that brings the best together again.”
The Showdown showcases four multiple major-winners, including reigning Masters champion and dominant world No. 1 Scheffler. In June, DeChambeau edged McIlroy by a single shot in a dramatic finish to win his second U.S. Open Championship at Pinehurst No. 2. Two sources say the players will receive an appearance fee but will not compete for prize money. It’s understood that the 18-hole match will feature a mix of best-ball and alternate shot formats.
The Showdown is being created by Bryan Zuriff’s BZ Entertainment and EverWonder Studio. Zuriff was previously involved in The Match, a series of TV matches that launched in 2018 and which had featured McIlroy, DeChambeau and Koepka. EverWonder Studio was founded last year by former Sports Illustrated executive Ian Orefice and backed by Jeff Zucker’s RedBird IMI.
“Those are two guys I really miss competing against.”
It has been nearly a month since Scottie Scheffler played a golf tournament, but the last time he did, he was doing something he did a lot of this year: win.
Scheffler, coming off his seven-win season on the PGA Tour, is playing this week at the 2024 Presidents Cup for the first time since the Tour Championship, where he claimed the FedEx Cup. The top-ranked player in the world will lead the Americans against the Internationals at Royal Montreal Golf Club in Canada.
What has life been like since his victory at East Lake?
“Not much. We were at home for most of it. I took a good week off after East Lake, and then I got to practicing pretty quickly after that. That’s about it,” Scheffler said.
Scheffler said his manager brought up the idea to him, and he thought it sounded fun.
“I’ve partnered with Brooks and Bryson at Ryder Cups before. I’ve never obviously had a chance to play with Rory at the Ryder Cup, but those are two guys I really miss competing against.
“Brooks has five major championships. That’s a pretty cool record for him. He’s had a great career. He’s a guy I love competing against. You’ve got Bryson, with all his stuff, I think he’s a fun guy to be around.
“It definitely interested me, and the way things fell together, it seemed to work out nice. It seems like a fun deal.”
Team USA captain Zach Johnson talks with golfer Justin Thomas, golfer Scottie Scheffler, and golfer Brooks Koepka (right) on the 18th hole during day one fourballs round for the 44th Ryder Cup golf competition at Marco Simone Golf and Country Club. (Photo: Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports)
But first, Scheffler has the Presidents Cup, where in his debut in 2022 he went 0-3-1. He’s motivated to do better this year in another opportunity to represent his country.
“That’s probably why you saw me so emotional after the Olympics. I really do take a lot of pride in playing for my country,” Scheffler said. “I’ve had the opportunity to do it a few times, and it’s very special.
“Coming here to foreign soil for us and trying to compete and bring back the Cup, I think will be pretty fun.”
The penultimate event on LIV Golf’s 2024 schedule has arrived at Bolingbrook Golf Club in Bolingbrook, Illinois, outside Chicago.
Brooks Koepka is looking to go 3-for-3 in the circuit’s regular-season finale. A win could earn him a spot on the podium at the season-long Individual Championship, although he can’t finish higher than third. The season’s individual race is now a two-man pursuit between Jon Rahm and Joaquin Niemann. Koepka needs to win in Chicago and have current third-place Tyrrell Hatton to finish lower than third.
Koepka has a LIV-high five victories, including LIV Golf Greenbrier earlier this year.
Bolingbrook Golf Club is hosting LIV Golf for the first time.
This is the list of the longest drivers on the PGA Tour for each season since 1980, when the stat was first kept.
Who are the longest drivers on the PGA Tour?
They’ve been keeping stats on average driving distances since 1980.
In 2003, the mark of 321.4 yards was achieved by Hank Kuehne and was the standard-bearer for almost two decades. During the 2019-20 season, Bryson DeChambeau broke Kuehne’s 17-year-old mark. One year later, DeChambeau broke his own mark.
Go back to 1997, where John Daly was the first to surpass the average distance of 300 yards. In all, Daly led the Tour in driving distance 11 times.
Being a big hitter doesn’t always lead to victory. Only eight golfers on this list won a PGA Tour event in the same year they led in driving. In case you were wondering, neither Tiger Woods nor Phil Mickelson ever led the Tour in driving distance.
This is the list of the longest drivers starting in 1980 through the 2024 regular season at the Tour Championship.
It’s been nearly six years since the first edition of The Match, the made-for-TV series of silly season golf events featuring everyone from PGA Tour legends to current NFL and NBA all-stars.
In that time, golf fans have been treated to seven different matches, most recently the first to be played using a mixed-team format.
Even though the first edition of The Match – Woods vs. Phil Mickelson in November 2018 in Las Vegas – didn’t quite live up to the hype, it proved there was a market for the competition. Over the years the matches have grown into charitable causes benefitting COVID-19 relief and HBCU’s while still providing golf fans a unique product outside of 72-hole stroke-play tournaments.
Representatives of all four players confirmed their involvement to Golfweek.
Golf’s long-simmering civil war is about to become prime-time entertainment.
Rory McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler will face Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka in a made-for-TV match later this year, Golfweek has learned.
The contest pits the two biggest stars on the PGA Tour against the most high-profile figures on LIV Golf, and will be widely interpreted as indicating a potential thaw in relations between the once warring camps.
The event will be held mid-December in Las Vegas and will air on TNT, which is owned by Warner Brothers Discovery. TNT previously broadcast nine editions of The Match, the series of exhibitions that launched in 2018 with Tiger Woods vs. Phil Mickelson. McIlroy, Koepka and DeChambeau have all appeared in versions of The Match, but it’s unclear if this latest battle will be a continuation of that series. Four previous Matches were held in Las Vegas, three at Wynn Golf Club and one at Shadow Creek.
McIlroy confirmed his participation after an inquiry from Golfweek.
“I’m thrilled to partner with Scottie in what promises to be an exciting duel against Bryson and Brooks in Vegas this December,” he wrote in a text message. “This isn’t just a contest between some of golf’s major champions; it’s an event designed to energize the fans. We’re all here to put on a great show and contribute to a goodwill event that brings the best together again.”
Representatives of the other three players also confirmed their involvement to Golfweek.
“Brooks and Scottie are very excited to be a part of this unique event and look forward to sharing more soon,” said Blake Smith, who represents both Koepka and Scheffler.
Brett Falkoff, the agent for DeChambeau, said: “Bryson looks forward to competing in Las Vegas this December in an event that is sure to provide great entertainment for the fans.”
The prime-time special is being produced by Bryan Zuriff’s BZ Entertainment — which developed The Match series — and EverWonder Studio, which was founded last year by Ian Orefice, is run by former CNN chief Jeff Zucker and is funded by RedBird IMI. Two sources say the players will receive an appearance fee but will not compete for prize money.
The PGA Tour declined to comment on the event. The Tour has been engaged in negotiations with the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund — which bankrolls LIV — since signing the controversial Framework Agreement 15 months ago. Earlier this summer, the Tour appointed a committee to handle those talks directly. McIlroy is among a number of players who sit on that committee.
Bryson DeChambeau and Rory McIlroy fist bump on the 18th green during the final round of the Charles Schwab Challenge golf tournament at Colonial Country Club. Mandatory Credit: Raymond Carlin III-USA TODAY Sports
In response to a later question about how the Tour and PIF have prioritized talks, Monahan said the sides were “really starting to talk about the future, future product vision and where we can take our sport.”
The Vegas match features a lineup of stars who share layered rivalries. McIlroy and Koepka were tied at four major victories each until Koepka won a fifth at the 2023 PGA Championship, while DeChambeau narrowly edged McIlroy in a heartbreaking finish to the U.S. Open at Pinehurst in June.
Meanwhile, Scheffler has established himself as the undisputed world No. 1, with seven PGA Tour wins this season, culminating in the FedEx Cup title last weekend, which came with a bonus of $25 million.
(Editor’s note: This story was updated to clarify Jeff Zucker’s involvement in the project.)
DeChambeau says he’s discovered the right balance.
There was a time when Bryson DeChambeau’s body transformation was as much a part of his storyline as his golf accomplishments.
Using something called Muscle Activation Technique, the SMU product put 40 pounds of muscle on his 6-foot-1 frame, something that helped him break through for his first major championship at Winged Foot as he won the 2020 U.S. Open.
In 2021, DeChambeau looked as if he could start at nose tackle for an NFL team. But by the 2024 U.S. Open at Pinehurst, where he doubled his number of major titles by edging Rory McIlroy, the 30-year-old looked more like a running back or a safety.
In advance of the LIV Golf Team Championship, which will take place from Sept. 20-22 at Maridoe Golf Club outside of Dallas, DeChambeau looked back at that era with a different lens than most.
While most would have used words like brawny or burly to describe DeChambeau’s physique during that timeframe, he felt the added weight made him look different.
“You can say I was fat,” he said. “It’s okay.”
Now svelte and as popular as ever, DeChambeau is happy he worked through his experiment, one that saw him claim to drink at least a half-dozen protein shakes per day while consuming 3,500 calories. But he now says he feels stronger in his current state.
“Ultimately, I’m always going to see things through. If I believe in something, I’m going to see it through to the end. If there was anything that didn’t work, I will take that out of the picture, which I have,” he said. “There are things that didn’t work, obviously, and I’m now down to a weight where I feel like I can sustain this for the rest of my life and just continue to get incrementally stronger over the course of time because I do feel stronger than I was when I was at the height of my weight gain.
“I wouldn’t say that that weight gain is what attributed to strength. I feel like it was a test to see how fast I could grow, and there were ramifications to that.”
Bryson DeChambeau at The Old White at the Greenbrier. (Bob Donnan-USA TODAY Sports)
Although he’s not grinding in the gym the way he once did, fitness still plays a vital role in DeChambeau’s life. He feels now, however, that he’s discovered the right balance.
“I figured it out. I’m now in a place where I’m super comfortable, and I continue to get a little bit stronger, albeit I’m not speed training every day, I’m not going at it every day,” he said. “I still have that speed inherently in me, and whenever I want to, I can get to 205 ball speed within 15 balls. That reserve is still there. It’s just I don’t push it very often because I don’t want to injure or hurt anything, and it takes a while to get to those speeds consistently.
“Again, my focus is transition to winning tournaments and being competitive in major championships and winning them.”
In his first 18 starts on the PGA Tour after golf returned from COVID, DeChambeau won three times – including that 2020 U.S. Open – and had seven other top 10s – including a tie for third in the Charles Schwab Challenge and a tie for fourth in the PGA Championship.
That led some like Rory McIlroy to consider similar measures in an attempt to stay on an even plane.
DeChambeau understood why someone as fiery as McIlroy would want to make sure he didn’t lose an edge.
“I think there’s a ton of respect in that. I don’t think it’s anything more than him seeing a potential and going, okay, am I missing something? As competitive as he is, as competitive as we all are, I think they were looking at it from a perspective of, man, I don’t want to get left behind,” DeChambeau said. “That’s in a positive way. That’s not in a negative way at all. It was like, wow, I want to see if I can do that, too.”
Last month, LIV Golf’s Bryson DeChambeau posted a video to his YouTube channel featuring former United States President Donald Trump, where the pair tried to break 50 from the forward tees. In the latest edition, the U.S. Open champion attempted the same feat with John Daly.
In the video, while DeChambeau was warming up on the range, he handed Daly his 5-wood. The legend tried hitting DeChambeau’s club a few times, but couldn’t make solid contact.
“This is the funniest thing right here, look at this 5-wood, right. When I won my majors, my driver was smaller than this,” Daly said.
DeChambeau, one of the longest hitters in the game, has extremely thick grips on his clubs and the shafts are “something like” 3x-stiff.
“No, I can’t hit these just like you can’t swing like me. Everybody’s different in this game,” Daly said.
