Bryson DeChambeau wins Dubai Desert Classic: What's In The Bag?

DeChambeau continues to impress as he chalks up a fourth victory in his last nine worldwide starts.

28 Jan 2019

Bryson DeChambeau wins Dubai Desert Classic: What's In The Bag?

Bryson DeChambeau hailed the latest vindication of his unique method after claiming a remarkable fourth win in his last nine events with a commanding victory in the Omega Dubai Desert Classic.

DeChambeau carded a closing 64 at Emirates Golf Club to set a new tournament record of 24 under par and finish seven shots clear of England’s Matt Wallace.

Wallace birdied the 18th to shoot 68 and claim outright second, a shot ahead of Ryder Cup team-mates Ian Poulter and Sergio Garcia, 2011 champion Alvaro Quiros and England’s Paul Waring.

Wow. What a week. Thank you for all of the hospitality this week @OMEGAGolfDubai and @EmiratesGC. Hopefully this is the first of more international victories! pic.twitter.com/wfQAwws17C
— Bryson DeChambeau (@b_dechambeau) January 27, 2019

The victory marked the American's first overseas title away from the PGA Tour.

“It’s incredible to get my first win overseas on the European Tour,” said the world number five. “Today I was happy with my game. I executed a lot of great shots.

“It was obviously a lot of fun to be able to finally hoist an international trophy, I’m so happy about that. I was trying to shoot 25 under today and missed it by one, but I’m happy with the results for sure.”

Absolutely unreal golf being played by @b_dechambeau right now. Congrats on another W to him and his team. Maybe I should’ve paid more attention in science class
— Justin Thomas (@JustinThomas34) January 27, 2019

DeChambeau joined Jack Nicklaus, Phil Mickelson, Tiger Woods and Ryan Moore in winning the NCAA and US Amateur titles in the same season in 2015, while his opening 64 in Abu Dhabi the following year had playing partner Chris Paisley labelling him as “quite possibly the most impressive player I have ever seen”.

The physics graduate describes himself as a “golfing scientist” and famously plays with a set of irons all cut to the same length, while he is also known to float his golf balls in Epsom salts to check if they are perfectly round.

“It’s a lot of hard work with my caddie, just really grinding and trying to figure out how to take account of all the variables out there,” DeChambeau said of his approach to the game.

“Whether it’s air pressure, firmness values, mph on the ball speed, spin rates…we’re trying to figure out as much as possible so I can be as consistent as possible and obviously it’s showing.

“I think it’s a little bit vindicating that I’m able to come out and have such success like this on multiple tours, so I’m very proud, happy and thankful as well.”

DeChambeau was once again using Cobra Golf's exciting new KING F9 SPEEDBACK driver, as well as his customary KING FORGED ONE LENGTH irons.