Golf’s Scientist Bryson DeChambeau Once Turned Into a Real Geek While Explaining His Back Injury

Bryson DeChambeau doesn’t carry the nickname ‘Mad Scientist’ for the sake of it. Time and again, he has proven to be extremely conscious of the technicalities involving his game. In this article, we cover a similar story from 2018, when DeChambeau had an out-of-this-world reply to a simple injury inquiry.

What did Bryson DeChambeau say about his injury in 2018?

While participating in the Arnold Palmer Invitational in 2018, Bryson was asked about an injury concern he was carrying over at that time. He had a back problem that forced him to pull out of the Valspar Championship a week before the Invitational began. On being asked what had changed over the past one week regarding his back issues, DeChambeau had this to say.

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“Well it was the QL and that really got inflamed for me,” DeChambeau replied. “It was because my quadratus lumborum wasn’t working, my iliacus, longissimus thoracis, they were all kind of over working, if you want to get technical on that. But they weren’t working very well and I overworked them. Pretty much my lower right back was hurting and I rested it. How about that?”

Good enough, Bryson, good enough.

Having majored in physics at SMU, it is fair to say that DeChambeau paid enough attention to his classes. The 2020 US Open winner is known to perform crazy stuff to find the most scientifically efficient way of shooting a low score. Some of his experiments include dipping golf balls in Epsom salt to test their center of gravity and cutting all his clubs to the same length to eliminate changing back postures frequently.

“The reality is he has always wanted to challenge the norm,” his coach Mike Schy had told BBC Sport. “We have talked about that for a long time, when that happens people are not going to like it.”

“Not until you win a few majors and are number one in the world for a period of time, then maybe all of a sudden people will wake up and go ‘Ok, maybe we need to look at all this and see it is game-changing’.”

What happened at the 2018 Arnold Palmer Invitational?

The story of that tournament further exemplifies DeChambeau’s work ethic. Despite being injured a week ago, he finished 2nd at the 2018 Invitational. Rory McIlroy emerged victorious in that event.

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