Farmingdale, New York | The gray sky, the muddy soil and the promise of more rain for the clouds separate for a Ryder Cup -Weekend Two years in waiting could not dampen that Bryson Deschambeau seemed to follow around Bethpage Black on Thursday while the Countdown clock tapped.
When Decchambeau ran forward to sign signatures for the squeaking crowd that was stopped by a metal fence near the practice green, adult men quickly entered the commotion and their white pin flags kept a signature over the heads of young people in the hope.
On the eve of a Ryder Cup, the American team has to win badly, Deschambeau with its superhero styles and open intensity is the X factor.
Rory McIlroy is the Alpha-male Alfa and Scottie Scheffler is the manifestation of American possibilities, but Decchambeau is apart, even while he is hug and embraced in the blood brush culture made by Captain Keegan Bradley.
When golf canal analyst Brandel Chamblee the conversation pre-event is agitated by dechambeau ‘A Captain’s Nightmare’, it was still an arrow shot at the most controversial player in the game. Dechambeau gently pushed back on social media, while his teammates were predictably around him.
Although he can wear the same uniform as his teammates, Dechambeau’s unconventionality defines him. To a lesser extent, the obstinacy of Viktor HOVOLAND separates him on the European side, but in the case of both players there is a value to be different.
This can be the perfect stage for Dechambeau. It is a big golf course with his terrifying rough trimmed to be little more than a nuisance and it is an event that is of emotion. Deschambeau plays golf in lively colors – the black race seems to be painted in bright red staging this week – and no golfer is better at playing the crowd than DECHAMBEAU.
Do you remember his arms-raised, heavyweight champion Pose when he drove his ball 370 meters over a lake in the Arnold Palmer Invitational a few years ago or the way he swam in a sea of admirers when he won the US open in Pinehurst, sharing the trophy with them?
Now place Deschambeau on the first tee in Bethpage Black waving flags and the president looks at and finds a character that is better suited for the scene. That does not mean that he will be the best player, but the moment will not be too big for him.
“If he regards himself as a gladiatorgolf player, this is as good as it will be great. He has been great in the team room.” – Xander Schauffele
Even if you do not buy everything, DECHAMBEAU sells, his pitch is difficult to ignore.
“This is his arena,” said Xander Schauffele. “If he regards himself as a gladiatorgolf player, this is as good as it will be great. He has been great in the team room.
“I am excited to see what he can do, and hopefully to get many points on the board because his points may get harder than my points, for example, only because of how he could get these fans quickly in this tournament and get quickly in this tournament.”
For lunch, the Deschambeau took 10 minutes from the media for lunch and opposed every temptation to troll his critics.
Recently, Rory McIlroy said that Dechambeau draws attention to itself by talking about others, especially McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler.
Deschambeau, who made a point in April to say that McIlroy never spoke with him during their last combination at the Masters, looked and sounded like a man who operated under the order of the captain to prevent them from taking bait.
“I think that rivalry is good for golf game, and although I have the ultimate respect for Rory as a player. It will be nice to go against him this week, whether it is against him or by other players. I think it will be a nice challenge this week,” said Decchambeau.
“Would I like to go against him? Yes. It would be a lot of fun. Will it happen? It is not likely. I mean, maybe once.”
McIlroy was benevolent in the same way.
“When I come across Bryson at some point, I love that. I think that’s great for the championship and also great for us, in some ways,” said McIlroy.
Asked about the comments from Chamblee and the questions he asked about the YouTube viewer numbers of Dephambeau, Depchambeau again chose diplomacy above the debate.
“I think every time people can throw things at me like that, I enjoy it. I appreciate it. I think it’s good for the golf game in the end because it starts to stimulate a conversation,” Dephambeau said.
Dechambeau is the player who is most suitable to be the American Fire Starter this week, waving the noise and energy. He will do what the team needs him to do.
In the last hours before this Ryder -Cup starts, there is a feeling that Europe may have a small advantage in terms of talent and the form in which each player is located, but the Americans have the unmistakable lead on playing at home, the most meaningful indicator of potential success in the past two decades.
This is the third Ryder Cup from Dechambeau and he is a player other than the Ryder Cup -smokie that he was in Paris seven years ago. He was part of the dominant American team at Whistling Straits four years ago, but was not part of the American team of 2023 in Rome.
Dechambeau is the player who is most suitable to be the American Fire Starter this week, waving the noise and energy. He will do what the team needs to do, he said, but every player says that.
“This team was a passion project of mine. It was A1. It was the thing I wanted to do the most, represent my country,” said Decchambeau, who besides Justin Thomas Will meet European Jon Rahm and Tyrrell Hatton Four teeth in the opening matches of Friday morning.
The time of Dechambeau has come.
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