Bryson DeChambeau To Bulk Up: 'I'm Going To Look Like A Different Person'

The five-time PGA Tour winner is going to take six weeks off to work on his strength

Bryson DeChambeau To Bulk Up
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The five-time PGA Tour winner is going to take six weeks off to work on his strength

Bryson DeChambeau To Bulk Up: 'I'm Going To Look Like A Different Person'

Bryson DeChambeau told the media after his T4th finish at the Shriners Open that he is going "to look like a different person" in six weeks when he returns to PGA Tour action.

The Golfing Scientist is going to take a month-and-a-half off to work on his body as he bulks up to hit the ball further and get more out of his muscles - or, as he says, to "make sure the neurological threshold is just as high as the mechanical threshold."

"...as of right now I need some time off. I'm going to come back next year and look like a different person," he said in Las Vegas, where he shot 63 in the final round to place T4th in his title defence.

"You're going to see some pretty big changes in my body, which is going to be a good thing.

"Going to be hitting it a lot further."

DeChambeau is already one of the biggest hitters in golf, averaging over 300 yards off the tee for the last two seasons as well as 318 yards so far for 2019/20.

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However, he'll be putting on even more yards by the sound of it.

"Bigger. Way stronger. Not necessarily bigger, but just stronger in general. I am going to look probably a lot bigger, but it's going to be a fun month and a half off," he said when asked what he'll look like.

"I have never been able to do this, and I'm going to go do things that are going to be a lot of fun."

He said he is working with Greg Roskopf in Denver, Colorado to work on Muscle Activation Techniques.

"We make sure the neurological threshold is just as high as the mechanical threshold," the World No.8 said.

"In layman's terms, pretty much whatever muscle potentially you have, how big and the muscle spindles you have, making you can recruit every single one of them to their full potential throughout the whole range, and training the whole range of motion."

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Elliott Heath
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Elliott Heath is our News Editor and has been with Golf Monthly since early 2016 after graduating with a degree in Sports Journalism. He manages the Golf Monthly news team as well as our large Facebook, Twitter and Instagram pages. He covered the 2022 Masters from Augusta National as well as five Open Championships on-site including the 150th at St Andrews. His first Open was in 2017 at Royal Birkdale, when he walked inside the ropes with Jordan Spieth during the Texan's memorable Claret Jug triumph. He has played 35 of our Top 100 golf courses, with his favourites being both Sunningdales, Woodhall Spa, Western Gailes, Old Head and Turnberry. He has been obsessed with the sport since the age of 8 and currently plays off of a six handicap. His golfing highlights are making albatross on the 9th hole on the Hotchkin Course at Woodhall Spa, shooting an under-par round, playing in the Aramco Team Series on the Ladies European Tour and making his one and only hole-in-one at the age of 15 - a long time ago now!


Elliott is currently playing:


Driver: Titleist TSR4

3 wood: Titleist TSi2

Hybrids: Titleist 816 H1

Irons: Mizuno MP5 5-PW

Wedges: Cleveland RTX ZipCore 50, 54, 58

Putter: Odyssey White Hot OG #5

Ball: Srixon Z Star XV