Bryson DeChambeau thanked his conversations for AI after shooting a final round 65 to finish third at LIV Golf Korea, just one shot short of the playoff.
He said after the round that the improvement was due to the work he did with Gemini AI after the 71 on Saturday.
“Yeah, the beginning of the first round I felt great. Golf swing felt in sync and then it started getting out of sync and it felt like my hands were getting ahead of me. It continued that way for the next two rounds, and it was very frustrating,” said the Crushers captain.
“I spent some long hours on the range trying to figure some stuff out and I was talking to AI quite a bit last night trying to go through some different physics principles that makes the club turn over, having some alpha torque and gamma torque put in there. I was like, what makes that possibly do that, and was talking about just grip pressure and tension.
“So I came out here today with just a little bit more freer hands, and I felt the club a lot better, and I felt like I could close the club a lot more effectively and then I started striping it. “From then on out, I was able to kind of control it. Still missed some wedges to the right coming in, which is kind of frustrating, but that’s just me holding on a little bit rather than just letting it go.
“I feel like I’m on the right path now, and I had it okay in the first round, but really felt it — I felt really good this round. I felt better than I did in the first round, which is a good trend.
“Hopefully it continues, and I’m just continuing to learn. That’s the thing; this game is so brutal. Missing two cuts at the majors and you feel like you’re golden going in there, won a couple events and playing well, and this game can kick you when you’re at your highest. “It goes for all of us, not just me. It’s everybody here. Everybody wants to win. “I think that’s the beautiful part about golf is that it can kick you when you’re at your highest or it can bring you up when you’re at your lowest, and yet we have to respect the game for that. “So I felt great. Didn’t feel great in the middle of the tournament, but then the last round today I felt a lot better.
“I’m proud of the way I persevered to finish third without really anything.”
And then spoke about the Gemini assisted practice session he had at 8pm: “I was slamming the club in the ground trying to figure out what to do. I was frustrated. Been trying everything in my body. I didn’t actually figure it out on the range. I went back and started talking to Gemini and trying to figure out just what it could be to passively make the club turn over. Hands just felt like they were moving forward like this and I couldn’t get the club to turn over. Even if I tried to stop it here, it still wouldn’t turn over.
“So I left kind of frustrated and learned later that night that I just needed to relax my grip pressure and let the thing just fold over naturally. “I’m still working it out. I don’t have the answer.”
The solo 3rd was a good bounce back from a disappointing missed cut at the PGA Championship.
DeChambeau now heads to Valderrama next week for LIV Golf Andalucia before attempting to win his third US Open at the historic Shinnecock Hills in a few weeks.
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