If Bryson DeChambeau hasn’t already achieved golfing greatness, then he’s certainly on the cusp. The three major tournaments in which he has played this year to date are generally accepted to be the real measure of greatness in the game, and his performance in them has been brilliant: tied for sixth in the Masters, solo second in the PGA Championship, and a win at the U.S. Open.
It was DeChambeau’s second U.S. Open victory, and he clinched it with a shot on the final hole that will go down as one of the greatest clutch shots in the game’s history: a 55-yard bunker shot to within four feet of the pin. (Elite players will tell you that long greenside bunker shots are among the most challenging they face. Moreover, DeChambeau had to execute that shot into one of the famed turtleback greens of Pinehurst Number 2, which added another degree of difficulty — or six — to the challenge.)
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