Bryson DeChambeau predicts somebody will shoot 56 – and soon!

As he returns this week to the scene of his remarkable round of 58 last year, Bryson DeChambeau believes that it won’t be long before a professional golfer goes even lower than that.

The two-time US Open champion had 13 birdies and one bogey in his 12-under-par final round to win the LIV Golf Greenbrier event 12 months ago and become only the fourth player to go that low on a main tour.

His score matched Jim Furyk’s 58 on the PGA Tour in 2016, as well as rounds posted by Ryo Ishikawa and Kim Seong-hyeon on the Japan Golf Tour in 2010 and 2021 respectively.

For obvious reasons, the American returns to The Greenbrier this week full of confidence – and, in classic Bryson fashion, he’s making a bold prediction.

“I believe there will be a 57 at some point, even a 56 potentially,” said DeChambeau.

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“I think a 57 has been potentially shot on other tours before, but it’s going to just get more consistent over the course of time. We’re just too good now, and it’s fun.

“When you’re in that mindset and you’ve got that, oh, we’re going low and making everything, it’s why we do it. It’s why we play golf.”

DeChambeau has a series on his YouTube channel devoted to trying to break 50 with a famous playing partner – most recently Donald Trump and John Daly – but he is optimistic that lower scores are coming at the highest level of the game.

“I can tell you breaking 58, I’m sure someone is going to do it at one of these times at some point,” he added. “We’re just too good now. There’s going to be a time where everything kind of lines up.

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“Al Geiberger was the first ‘Mr.59’, and then David Duval and others have done it since then, and it’s starting to get a little easier. It’s like runners breaking the four-minute mile; it was one person that broke it, and the next year there were 12 or whatever or something like that.”

The world No.9 added that carding 58 a year was the catalyst that breathed new life in his career and set up what has been an extraordinary 2024.

“That was the day my life changed for the better for sure,” he said. “Previous to that, I had been struggling with my golf game, not really understanding how to get the job done again. It had been a while since I had felt like I had done anything.

“Coming here last year, I had this new driver in play that I felt I was going to be able to hit a lot straighter, and ultimately that was a massive difference for me.

“Everything lined up the way I’ve seen it do in the past. That’s what jump-started me to how I’ve been playing this past year, jump-started me to winning the US Open this year and continuing to play some really stellar golf.”

Michael McEwan is the Deputy Editor of bunkered and has been part of the team since 2004. In that time, he has interviewed almost every major figure within the sport, from Jack Nicklaus, to Rory McIlroy, to Donald Trump. The host of the multi award-winning bunkered Podcast and a member of Balfron Golfing Society, Michael is the author of three books and is the 2023 PPA Scotland 'Writer of the Year' and 'Columnist of the Year'. Dislikes white belts, yellow balls and iron headcovers. Likes being drawn out of the media ballot to play Augusta National.

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