ATLANTA -- His career was in its infancy, the professional game still new and humbling. Bryson DeChambeau came to it with a good bit of fanfare, having won at the top levels of amateur golf, but now he had been beaten up and chastened and had little idea what lay ahead.
And so he decided ... to go to the Ryder Cup?
Yep, two years ago, DeChambeau paid his own way to Minneapolis to take in the Ryder Cup as a spectator. He did it to see what the event was like, thinking he might be on that stage one day.