Former US Open champion and world number one Bryson DeChambeau is now a fully fledged member of LIV Golf, but whilst his style may not have changed, the tools of the trade have recently done so.

The 29-year-old, with a best of eighth place in seven LIV events, and with no victory since the 2021 Arnold Palmer Invitational, still provokes memories of his extraordinary distance:

Like most players, Bryson is a tinkerer, but after his agreement with Cobra ended at the turn of the year, there was more than the usual interest when, three days ago, he posted a video of the clubs in his current ‘whole new’ bag.

Given Bryson’s almost continual search for increased ball- speed and extra distance, the Long Drive World Championship runner-up is always going to attract attention when discussing his sticks, and the video already has close to 200,000 views.

He started the video by saying he is ‘super stoked’ and is looking forward to a ‘new year, new me’, before praising his new ‘Crushers‘ bag – the name of the team he captains for LIV, containing Mayakoba winner Charles Howell III and fourth-placed Paul Casey, who combined for 23 of the 26-under winning score.

During the video, Bryson confirms his irons remain the same length throughout, varying only in loft and weight, and he started working his way from the (usually) shortest clubs in the bag. But there are changes.

 

He still has his 56-degree Artisan wedge but has added a Ping Glide 4.0, with the same loft but a wider bounce, both now covering different turf conditions.

Having removed his 3-wood due to ‘flattening the face’ he says he is working on getting a new one.

Bryson is now playing Ping i230 irons  all the way through 60-degree, 56, 50 and 45-degree, made with a “draw-bias bounce and a closed face.” He is particularly impressed with a “slot” that seems to assist the clubs in going through the rough in much easier fashion and helped for the times he was in the thicker stuff during LIV Mayakoba.

The eight-time PGA Tour said that “Ping have done a really good job with [the length of the clubs]” and goes on to his Ping Crossover 2-iron with 15-degree loft, a “hybrid driving iron” that offers him “piercing bullets.”

He admiits that the question everyone wants to know is, “What driver am I using?” and he tells us that he is now using the TaylorMade Stealth driver, with 8-degree standard loft, although he is working with the manufacturer to produce less spin.

He has retained a Ping LST driver as his back-up, and again is working on a few things, mainly “face stuff.”

Finally, Bryson says he is keeping his LA Golf C2L-180 putter, although he has changed the angle of the grip and added lead tape to change the weight. Happy though he is, he is “working on stuff” with the company’s new carbon shaft, and is excited to see where that goes in the near future.

This is an experimental stage in Bryson DeChambeau’s career, so while he may have been “impressed by my own game, especially how far I hit it,” you get the impression there is more experimentation to come.

This is, after all, the player that carries several rulers marked in 5-inch sections so that he can have a spacial reference to how far to aim it.

The ‘new’ Bryson certainly seems happy with where he is at and is at pains to point out how much new Crushers GC merchandise there will be be but, ultimately, he admits, “I’m just trying stuff out.”

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