"Pretty downward trending motion"- Bryson DeChambeau opens up about his one shortcoming in golf despite being on a 'good streak'
Bryson DeChambeau won the US Open this year, but he says he hasn't been successful at all when it comes to scoring eagles until he shot one at the LIV Golf Andalucia. Rejoicing in his moment of satisfaction, the LIV golfer opened up about his thoughts at a press conference on Saturday after the match. Bryson DeChambeau explained how he had been in good form but eagles were rare in his life.
“ I've been very blessed and I'm on a good streak in my life. You have ups and downs in your career and look I've only made one hole-in-one in my life. So I'll say I'm pretty downward trending motion on that. So anytime you can get what you can get out there and hole out a slam dunk... I've never slam dunked it - that was the cool part - that's what I was appreciative of. And golf is golf, you're going have weird stuff happen to you,” DeChambeau said (3:18-3:45).
He continued, “There's plenty of players that have 40 hole in ones, there's players that have one hole in one like myself. So it's just a crazy game and one you got to just look at it and laugh and love it because of it.” (3:45-3:54)
Bryson DeChambeau shot his first eagle on hole 14 on Saturday’s round of LIV Golf Andalucia. His final score was 67 at the end of the round.
How much can Bryson DeChambeau earn from a win at LIV Golf Andalucia?
The purse of the LIV Golf Andalucia is $25 million, out of which $4 million goes to the winner and $5 million is for the teams. Here's the entire breakdown of the purse:
1: $4 million
2: $2.25 million
3: $1.5 million
4: $1 million
5: $800,000
6: $700,000
7: $600,000
8: $525,000
9: $442,500
10: $405,000
11: $380,000
12: $360,000
13: $340,000
14: $330,000
15: $300,000
16: $285,000
17: $270,000
18: $260,000
19: $250,000
20: $240,000
21: $230,000
22: $220,000
23: $210,000
24: $200,000
25: $195,000
26: $190,000
27: $185,000
28: $180,000
29: $175,000
30: $170,000
31: $165,000
32: $160,000
33: $155,000
34: $150,000
35: $148,000
36: $145,000
37: $143,000
38: $140,000
39: $138,000
40: $135,000
41: $133,000
42: $130,000
43: $128,000
44: $128,000
45: $125,000
46: $125,000
47: $123,000
48: $120,000
49: $60,000
50: $60,000
51: $60,000
52: $50,000
53: $50,000
54: $50,000
Added to these, here's how much each of the teams will receive:
WIN: $3 million
2: $1.5 million
3: $500,000
Currently, Bryson DeChambeau sits at T6 on the leaderboard with 1-under. Right before him is Tyrell Hatton, who sits at T3 with 2-under. Martin Kaymer also sits on the T3 position of the leaderboard and is tied with Chacarra. Currently, Anirban Lahiri sits atop the leaderboard with 7-under and he scored 69 and 66 over the two rounds.