Although with Beer Gardens opening up I bet there were quite a few men attempting to adopt a ‘Whistling Straight’ demeanour as they stumbled home, in the forlorn hope that they could fool ‘the missus’ that they`d only had, ahem, ‘a couple!’

But isn`t it just typical that we had 10 weeks of ‘Beer Garden’ weather whilst we had to stay home, and now we`ve got Beer Gardens we`ve also got stay home weather!

Almost as ironic is that Bryson DeChambeau, the player who garnered the nickname ‘The Scientist’ for his measured, systematic, methodical, robotic approach to the game now just looks like your typical Sunday morning slasher trying to knock seven bells of sh.....rixon out of the ball! His recent ‘Project’ to add distance to his game has undoubtedly worked. The body transformation, strength work and bulking diet have seen him turn into a monster of a man. This has allowed him to rocket to the front of the driving and overall distance stats. But for me it has seen his swing morph from an extremely mechanical, methodical movement to one now that is in perpetual motion throughout the whole process which makes it look way more orthodox! Well everything except the fact it looks like he uses ‘A Coppers Trudgeon’ instead of a Golf Grip!

Unlike a Johnny Depp courtcase, there is absolutely no doubt that Big Bad Bryson is pounding it harder than anyone else on Tour. En route to his come-from-behind victory in the, oh so aptly named, ‘Rocket Mortgages Classic’ DeChambeau racked up and recorded some crazy drives. None more so than his tee shot at the 72nd – A 460 odd yard par four - on which he hit it 367 yards, pitched on and made the birdie putt to cement his three stroke win over Matt Wolff (who huffed and puffed but couldn`t get the job done). 

In that final round Bryson out drove his playing partner, Troy Merrett, by a collective 400+ yards. But here`s the thing that jumped out at me more. With four holes to play DeChambeau only held a one stroke lead. On 15 he hit a wedge wildly over the green (which is a big misjudgement for a Tour Pro with that club) on the par three 15th – Made par, he then similarly misjudged another short iron on 16 – hold a great 30 footer for birdie, two putt the par five 17th (that all the players in the field could hit comfortably in two shots – although he did do it from 230 yards with an EIGHT IRON!) before he finally knocked a wedge close at 18 for birdie to seal the deal. So whilst his length is a phenomenal asset it was his putting and eventual control of his wedges that won him that event – which is pretty much the case every week on Tour regardless of who wins. Bryson lead the ‘Strokes Gained’ category in putting that week with +8 – which basically means he picked up eight strokes on the field on the greens. Maybe we should all try tie-wrapping a Pirates Crutch to our left arm when we putt?

Never has ‘Drive For Show – Putt For Dough’ been a truer saying! So the moral of the story is folks, if you want to score lower you should work on your pitching and putting.