SHEBOYGAN, Wis. – Forget the sixth hole at Bay Hill.
This was the most excited Bryson DeChambeau had ever been on the course.
With 20-mph wind at his back – just as he’d hoped in practice – DeChambeau cleared the gallery down the right side of the fifth hole, took an absurd line over the water and prepared for liftoff at Whistling Straits.
“I said to myself, ‘All right, I have to aim at the green,’ so I did,” he said afterward. “So I just aimed at the green, and bombs away.”
His head-turning, 417-yard blast at the Ryder Cup left him just a flip wedge into the par 5.