Bryson DeChambeau: The Unconventional Golfer Poised To Follow In Tiger Woods' Footsteps
In the late 90s and early 2000s, Tiger Woods entered the golf scene and changed the game. Of course, he was the best golfer at the time and became the greatest golfer ever to play the sport, but what he did on and off the course gave way to the new generation of golfers.
Tiger Woods Changed The Game
Before Woods stepped into the national eye, people thought golf was just a bunch of nerds hitting the ball around in a polo and dress pants, and the people who believed that had every right to think that because it was true until Woods came onto the scene and turned the game into one of the most incredible things on the planet.
At any local golf course you would roll up to, you would see people wearing Nike golf clothes and playing with Nike golf clubs so they could be like Tiger. Every Sunday during Major Champion weekend, people were glued to their televisions to see Woods wearing his Sunday red polo and to see if he would bring home the title. For many people, golf turned into NFL Sunday, and Woods's coolness and excellence helped get the game to its current popularity.
Still, in the last few years, Golf has sort of lost its juice with the new golfers, and there hasn't been one to really change the sport the past few years until Bryson DeChambeau, who has been on the scene for about a decade now, came out of nowhere has the coolest man in the sport.
Bryson DeChambeau Is The Hero Golf Needed
DeChambeau won his second United States Open title on Sunday and electrified the fans with his on-and off-the-course interactions.
DeChambeau always stays around for hours after his round to interact with fans and sign autographs for every kid. He even interacts with the fans during tournament play and makes them feel like they are a part of the event.
Another thing the two-time Major Champion does very well is YouTube golf. YouTube golf has changed the sport in the last few years, and it's people just like the average golfer playing rounds and posting them on the site, and fans love it. A lot of the leading YouTube golf channels are Bob Does Sports, Good Good, and Foreplay, and none of them are pro golfers but a few from Good Good, and they go out and have fun just playing 18 holes like you would do with your buddies at your local course, and fans can relate very well to it.
It became very popular, so DeChambeau started to do the same thing, and he became the first great pro golfer to succeed on YouTube. He does funny things like playing with kids' clubs or old clubs from the 60s, and he's always going on other people's channels to play golf with them, so he's very popular, and people are falling in love with the 30-year-old golfer.
The only issue with DeChambeau is that he is on the LIV Golf Tour, so you only see him a little throughout the year since the tour is unpopular with many fans. Seeing him at the four majors is it and on his YouTube channel.
DeChambeau has changed his image over the past few years; back in 2021, he and five-time Major champion-winning golfer Brooks Koepka had a beef, and many people took Koepka's side because they thought DeChambeau was sort of a science nerd who hits the ball very far.
Still, it turns out he is one cool dude, and the fans love every single thing he is doing for the sport and is impacting so many like Tiger did back in the day.
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