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Check out 14-year-old Bryson on the range discussing his future before rise to stardom

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2 years ago

Nov 23, 2021

Videos of today’s stars when junior players are a common theme – look at the pairing of Justin and Jordan and the (almost) hundreds of Tiger movies – and Instagram site Long Drivers recently released a video of a 14-year-old Bryson DeChambeau, just before he made his trip to the World Youth Team Championship.

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In the video, Bryson talks positively about his status as the top Californian player in his age group, commenting that it’s “fun for me and I enjoy that reputation” – almost a prophetic statement given his prominence in today’s game.

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Playing since before he can remember and winning tournaments since the age of eight, a teenage Bryson looks to secure a place at Stanford and sees the upcoming event as “very serious actually”, again a prophetic vision of the player we see at double that age today.

Bryson’s coach gets a few lines in the short clip and, alongside eulogizing about his talent, states that “he’s getting noticed by a lot of big-time people”.

Check out the video below.

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Now, as a winner of eight events on the PGA Tour, including the U.S Open, and with a win in Dubai on the European Tour, I guess we can say he has been a world-class player in the making for a very long time.

So close to a hugely publicized ‘match’ with Brooks Koepka, I reckon we can say he’s still getting noticed.

Collin Morikawa makes surprising late putter switch at Masters

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5 hours ago

Apr 11, 2024

GolfWRX Staff

Collin Morikawa has had plenty of success with a blade in his hands over the course of his young career, but after a lean spell on the greens lately, it appears that the 27-year-old is ready to try something new.

Related: Brooks Koepka and Sergio Garcia make significant equipment changes as 2024 Masters looms

The California-native began the year with his TaylorMade TP Soto before switching to a Logan Olson proto last month. Now at this week’s Masters, Morikawa has been spotted with a Spider Tour X, the same flatstick that Scottie Scheffler will be using at Augusta.

The move would represent a big change, but it has been a very frustrating year on the greens for Morikawa, who will hope the TaylorMade mallet can offer him a similar upturn in fortune to that of Scheffler. In 2024, Morikawa ranks 164th for Strokes Gained: Putting, and 157th for Total Putting.

We’ll keep an eye whether Morikawa puts the mallet into action on day one of the Masters.

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Dave Portnoy places monstrous outright bet for the 2024 Masters

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1 day ago

Apr 10, 2024

GolfWRX Staff

Fresh off of winning $2.76 million on UConn’s victory over Purdue on Monday night, Barstool Sports’ founder Dave Portnoy has just placed a massive bet for this year’s Masters.

Tweeting on Wednesday morning, Portnoy revealed that he has placed $300,000 on Scottie Scheffler to win this year’s Masters at odds of +450.

Should he win, that’d be a total payout of $1.65 million.

Keep the momentum. For people who wanted me to hedge for is why I didn't. So I could take another shot at glory. #DKPartner #scotty pic.twitter.com/X9a0X8HOTZ

— Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) April 10, 2024

Scheffler is one of the shortest priced favorites of recent times at the Masters, and is looking for what would be his third win in his last four events.

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Brooks Koepka was asked if a 59 was possible at this year’s Masters. His answer did not disappoint

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1 day ago

Apr 10, 2024

Matt Vincenzi

During Brooks Koepka’s pre-tournament press conference for this week’s Masters Tournament, the five-time major champion was asked a bit of a silly question and gave a brilliant response.

Q. It sounds like the course is already pretty dialed this week, but under softer or optimal scoring conditions do you think 59 is obtainable on this golf course?

BROOKS KOEPKA: Have you played here?

Q. Not yet.

BROOKS KOEPKA: I can tell by the question.

Q. What number is attainable in your mind? 63’s the low.

BROOKS KOEPKA: I mean, now, anything’s attainable. But, yeah, if you want to go play the members tees and maybe play like 15 holes, yeah, I could do that.

With the course record being 63, it’s somewhat unclear why the reporter thought a soft golf course would be enough to result in a score four shots better than the record.