The Open 2025: Bryson Dechameau conduct wind tests to crack the code of the links, golf courses

Bryson Dechambeau is one of the most important great championship golfers of that time. He has two US Open titles, five more top 5 and two more top -10 since 2020, but despite all of his success, the open championship was his Achilles -heel in the large rotation.

Every American golfer has a learning curve for links golf, but some adapt to them faster than others. Golf in the United Kingdom requires different skills. It demands more creativity and use of the soil than the courses in the United States require. However, the biggest difference is the weather; The cold, damp, windy conditions that play players outdoors can be strange to those who grew up in the warm climates where golf thrives in the USA

The learning curve of Dechameau was steeper than many of his top colleagues because he only has one top 10 (T8 in 2022) and three missed cuts in seven outdoor starts. Wind has been an enemy of Dechameau for a long time, since its scientific approach to Golf has never completely found out how to deal with a factor that is so variable. Winds do not influence the ball in the same way all the time and constantly change and constantly change in the direction and strength.

This is a challenge for every golfer, but for Dechameau, which is so demanding and precise in his calculations before every shot, it has caused constant struggles. When he prepared for another crack in the open, Dechameau spoke about the work he is better in the wind.

“I am still working on it. We'll do some tests and continue to work on how difficult – how different wind types influence the golf balls. It is something that I work on a personal project, and it will take time to understand it,” he explained.

“Heavy wind is a great way to describe it. It's fat. … It is one of these situations in which you are in the environment and go So well, it feels like a 15 miles per hour of windAnd suddenly it plays like a 30 miles per hour, and you are how. What the hell? I think that's the trick of it. When they grew up here, they play a lot of golf here, they will be very comfortable and you know about it. In a sense, I only need more repetitions. “

Dechambeau emphasized the recent quality game at the LIV golf events in Andalucía and Miami, which had greater winds, but he noticed that the wind in Great Britain is different because the air is heavier, which affects the ball differently. Decimbeau is still trying to find out how to play in the wind – how to highlight some great ideas that he really has to experiment with Windgolf.

“This will be wild, but imagine a scenario in which you have a 400 yard tent, and you can hit any kind of shot with every wind with all fans,” considered Dechameau. “I imagine that in a hangar or something in a large stadium. That would be cool to test.”

Until it finds out how to enable a golf wind tunnel, he has to adhere to a more traditional method to get repetitions when it is windy. At least that has provided a positive change in his game when he learned to play against the wind and not against him.

“Everything I really did is hit more half shots and tries to play much more in the wind. If it is a wind to the right, I will draw it. If it is a wind to the right, I will try to cut it more often than not cut it,” said Dechambeau. “When I try to play with the wind, I sometimes lose control of the golf ball. I did. Whenever I was a wind to the right and I tried to hit Draws, man, the thing would go offline forever. These are only a few things I worked on.”

The question is how much he found out in his experimentation and whether this can create the kind of concrete, empirical data that he tries to find. Dechameau spends his time to remove every possible uncertainty from his game and try out obsessively, remove any guess and know the exact shot to meet exactly at the time.

The problem? Wind is never consistent, and this variability requires a certain feeling that cannot be produced or perfected – even if it builds its huge golf wind channel. The best thing to play in the wind is able to get it out of the equation as far as possible, and the upright momentum of Dechambeaus makes it difficult. Even then, there is an advisory game exactly how much influence the wind will have – and whether it will look up or settle at a certain point in time.

The real struggle with the wind is mentally – not in the sense that the conditions are the most exceeded, but must have the willingness to let go of accepting the occasional miss and trusting them in their overall process.

Every golfer in the field this week will be misjudged or gently, but those who put these mistakes out of their heads and can commit themselves to the next shot are those who will be successful. Until Dechambeau is convenient and confident in his process that he himself does not remind him of a loner, his uneven game at open championships will probably be continued.