Bryson DeChambeau is looking to win back-to-back majors at The Open 2024 with a set of 3D-printed irons.
Bryson DeChambeau will hope to become the first man to win two major championships in a row since Brooks Koepka in 2018, as The Open begins at Royal Troon on the 18th July.
The LIV star is currently ranked ninth in the world, and has the best score to par through the first three majors of this season, ahead of Xander Schauffele, Collin Morikawa, Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy.
The US Open champion now has two of golf’s biggest titles to his name, following his win at Pinehurst No. 2 this year and Winged Foot back in 2020. Should he lift the Claret Jug at Troon, he would join the likes of Jordan Spieth, Vijay Singh and Pádraig Harrington on three career majors.
DeChambeau explains how his irons help him hit the ball straighter
The American is known for tinkering and trying to be at the cutting edge of golf’s technological advances, and he has been speaking to The Open’s Live At The Range to explain how a new set of irons has been helping with his accuracy.
“There’s a reason why we have curve on the face. You hit on the toe and what normally happens? The ball flights draws. If you hit it on the heel, it starts left and cuts to the right,” he told Nick Dougherty.
He continued: “So we have created geometry on the face of all the irons to where when I hit it on the toe or the heel they will start further off line but will fall on my target line, back to the center, they don’t over curve. That’s why we built it, to help my miss-hits go straighter.”
This bulge and roll technology is common on woods and hybrids, but DeChambeau is the first top player to utilize it in his irons.
DeChambeau’s improved approach play could be down to his irons
Key to DeChambeau’s success in majors this season has been his significant improvement in approach play, as accuracy with short clubs in hand was vital around Pinehurst.
The 30-year-old has put that improvement in large part down to this change in irons just before the Masters.
The irons are made by a company called Avoda Golf and like DeChambeau’s previous sets, they are all the same length.
He had been practicing with them for some time before Augusta, but the USGA only approved them for use during the week before the tournament, so his first competitive round using the new equipment was a Thursday 65 which fired him into the lead.
He’ll be hoping they can fire him to a second major championship of the year at Troon.
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