Sepp Straka has done exactly the opposite of Bryson DeChambeau and it’s really helped him to win on the PGA Tour

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Sepp Straka has continued his impressive season on the PGA Tour by triumphing at the Truist Championship.

Straka celebrated with Rory McIlroy after securing the Truist Championship title, representing his second PGA Tour win of 2025.

McIlroy finished T7 at Philadelphia Cricket Club, where Straka finished top of the pile on 16-under, two shots clear.

The Austrian, who won The American Express earlier this season, saw off competition from joint runners-up Justin Thomas and Shane Lowry.

Thomas was disappointed with his Truist Championship finish, having recently emerged victorious at the RBC Heritage.

Sepp Straka enjoys PGA Tour success with opposite approach to Bryson DeChambeau

But the Truist Championship was all about Straka, who after his win discussed how and when he made the change to give up some of his distance to become more consistent with his ball striking.

“The big thing was switching to John Tillery as my swing coach,” he commented. “Just the stuff we worked on.

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“Once I started working with him, my iron play got really good. At that point, I was just very much concerned with getting the ball on the fairway, so I could take advantage of that with my iron game.

“Yeah, it just kind of naturally happened. It’s not a crazy switch. I went from like 174 ball speed to about 170 or so.

“But, yeah, I’ve been able to hit a lot of fairways in the last couple years, and I’ve been able to kind of take advantage of my iron play that way.”

Such a change is, of course, a huge contrast to LIV Golf star Bryson DeChambeau, one of the biggest hitters in world golf.

DeChambeau has bulked up over the years and has placed a huge emphasis on hitting long, which has helped him clinch plenty of success.

But his iron play undoubtedly let him down at The Masters last month, where he fell back after being in contention with eventual champion McIlroy heading into the final round.

How consistency has helped Sepp Straka to four PGA Tour wins

DeChambeau will have been disappointed with his short game at Augusta National, but his approach certainly worked in the early stages of The Masters.

And it also proved successful at the 2024 US Open, where he edged out McIlroy at Pinehurst for his second major championship win.

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Perhaps unsurprisingly, DeChambeau tops the LIV Golf driving distance stats for 2025, with the American enjoying great success on the Saudi-backed tour so far.

The former PGA Tour man currently occupies second spot in the individual standings, having just triumphed at LIV Golf Korea.

Straka meanwhile is now a four-time PGA Tour winner, and now finds himself sitting ninth in the Official World Golf Ranking.

Asked what he credits his rise to, he said: “I would say consistency, consistency of working at it regardless of where I was in my game.

“Junior golf, I wasn’t all that good. I definitely had some talent. I could hit the golf ball fairly well, but very rough around the edges.

“At Georgia I just felt like I kept getting better. Had a quick bout with the chipping yips my junior year and redshirted, but other than that, I felt like I just kept getting better.

“After I graduated, same thing. I just kept trying to improve my golf game regardless of where I was compared to other people in my class because my high school class was pretty stacked.
“A lot of guys ended up finishing early and going onto the PGA Tour, and I was definitely not one of those.

“Regardless of where I was, I just kept trying to improve my golf game and hoped that at the end of it, it would be good enough to play out here.”