Bryson DeChambeau makes this day his nickname, “mad scientist” (mad scientist) all the glory. With the restart of the PGA Tour after the Corona-forced break with Golf tournaments with no spectators can watch sports friends all over the world on the TV screen, whether the latest Experiment of the 26-year-old American brings the desired success: you Can with strength training, the muscles strengthen and grow, that you hit the Ball further than all the competitors?

he Succeeds, he could revolutionize professional Golf once Tiger Woods after his first Masters victory in 1997. Woods has dominated at that time in Augusta the tournament, as he struck the Ball often more than 300 meters wide and about 30 to 50 meters further than any of its competitors. He inspired a new Generation of Power players.

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Now reach many of the top players effortlessly these lengths from the tee. But DeChambeau beats with such force on the Ball that he rolls out often beyond the 350-Meter mark. For him, it’s just a matter of hitting the Ball is almost always from a short distance with Wedges as close as possible to the hole, and to sink him then.

110 kg, 1.85 meters

In the case of the first three tournaments, playful DeChambeau victory either in the approach shots on the Green or when putting. He finished the courses of three, eight, and six. With a total of 46-under Par for the twelve rounds he had in the standings better than the completely assembled world ranking list. Therefore, the world ranking tenth in the on Thursday, beginning the tournament in Detroit (Michigan) as the top Favourite, especially since most world-class players take a break.

Even if the victories were in the first three tournaments of his American compatriots Daniel Berger, Webb Simpson and Dustin Johnson, was always DeChambeau with his gigantic length win, and his new figure in the center. He put in the last nine months, especially in the three-month breaks to the turn of the year, and during the Corona-lock downs 18 kilograms in muscle mass. In the case of a body height of 1.85 meters, he is now just 110 pounds on the scale and had to change shirt size medium to extra large.

For comparison: The Northern Irish world number one Rory McIlory weighs 1.75 meters, just 70 kilograms. DeChambeau, the shows on the Internet with a bare chest and his washboard stomach presented, the effect in comparison to almost all of our colleagues so muscular, that it gave him yet another nickname: “Hulk” (colossus, wardrobe / closet, giant of a man), because it reminds me of the cartoon character of that Name. He changed his body with the help of Greg Roskopf, who developed the so-called Muscle Activating Techniques (MAT), techniques for Golf that are particularly important to strengthen muscles that allow for a powerful upper body rotation and swing stability. During the forced break DeChambeau completed three daily training sessions and introduced a promotional video for the training devices to the network.