LIV Golf star Bryson DeChambeau speaks on the loneliness he felt after winning the U.S. Open, with no wife and kids to enjoy it with.
“Oh, yeah, yeah, I mean, I don’t have a family. I don’t have kids. I don’t have a wife. And, you know, that’s one of the things where I had the trophy right next to my bed,” he said on the ‘Figuring Out’ podcast.
“I’ll never forget. We had a nice party. We were all having fun. And I go to bed. It’s tough to sleep, by the way. Your endorphins and your adrenaline is still going …
“But you sleep for the five, six hours and you wake up and you look over and you’re like, oh, I won the US Open. And then right after you say that, it’s like, what do I do next? I’m in bed alone. I don’t have my family with me. I don’t have anybody around. And it’s, it’s a real moment of frailty and it’s not easy…
“Because your entire life, you’re told that’s what the goal is. The goal is to get to this trophy. And then you realize when you hit it, you go, I gave up most of my life for this. I gave 20 years of my life to do this and I did it. Well, now what do I do? And I don’t have anybody next to me.
“I don’t have somebody loving on me and giving me a kiss and a kid coming up on the bed and holding my hand and all that. Is that really what I want to do for my life? Is that one legacy I want to leave to? And so it really transforms you and makes you realize what life is about.”
“So it’s a great thing. It’s also a humbling thing and it makes you feel lonely at first. But if you can get past that loneliness, you realize what life is truly about …”
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