Bryson DeChambeau is taking some time away from tournament golf this week, and on Tuesday evening the Californian featured on Pat Perez’ SiriusXM show, “Out of Bounds” where the two discussed a range of topics related to his game.

*All quotes courtesy of SiriusXM Radio*

One of those topics was Bryson’s 48-inch driver which has got the golf world’s attention ahead of next month’s Masters. When asked by Perez how close he was to putting the driver in play for the year’s final major, DeChambeau stated

“We’re 50 percent of the way there. It will get there. I’ll get there. We’ve got some pretty cool prototype stuff coming here in the next week that, yeah, I hope will forever make a difference in the game. It’s something that’s pretty cool. 

It’s something the long drive guys do all day long. They already have it in their drivers alone, but it just allows them to be a little more accurate. That’s what we’re doing with what I’m doing.”

In terms of an ‘endgame’, Bryson also teased how much room for improvement ball speed wise still could be reached, saying

“No, there’s no endgame. You look at Kyle Berkshire, what he’s doing. Justin James, Tim Burke, Fast Eddie [Fernandes], all these guys. I mean, Fast Eddie is going to be hitting 200 mph ball speed on the Champions Tour. He’s going to be driving almost every green, par-4, out there. He’s going to try to at least. 

You look at these guys who are 225 mph ball speeds. That’s 25 mph faster than what I was able to produce on the golf course last week. For the first time in PGA Tour history I think I hit 200 mph ball speed, which is the fastest ever recorded I think. They’re still 25 mph faster than me. I mean, there’s so much more room for improvement, I feel like.”

The 27-year-old has faced his share of ‘naysayers’ since the Tour’s restart, but once again he explained how he takes criticism of what he’s doing as a compliment.

 “Well, you know, look, I guess so. Like I said last week, it’s a compliment to me, man. You know, I appreciate it. When anybody does anything that’s a little controversial, a little different or whatnot, there’s going to be naysayers…(inaudible). And you just gotta keep going your way. You look at [Albert] Einstein, you look at [Isaac] Newton, you look at all these big-time names in the science field, there’s been a lot of people that have been called crazy. Decades later they’re like, wow, that person was actually pretty interesting, he did a lot of amazing things. I’m not saying that’s what I’m going to do but, shoot, I hope so one day. That’d be fun.”

On his physique goals, Bryson revealed that he is continuing to build up his strength, hoping to successfully manage back extensions of up to 300 pounds isolated by the time the Masters rolls around.

 “It’s a lot of work. I was dedicated a year ago to changing my body and for those first few months I saw a pretty decent amount of change immediately and I’m like, ok, let’s just take this to the next level. As I kept doing it I kept personally getting healthier, stronger, better and ultimately got to the point where I felt like there’s no end in sight. I’m going to keep going. 

 Right now I’m trying to do back extension up to 300 pounds isolated. That’s my goal by the end of this little break before Augusta. I’m at 250 now, I’m going to try and increase it 50 pounds. We’ll see. Just never stopping.”