Nerd makes own golf club to try to win Masters
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A guy who would definitely have a garage full of souped-up weed wackers and “better hammers” if he weren’t a world-class golfer is debuting a 3D-printed 5-iron at the Masters this week. Bryson DeChambeau, known in the golf world as “The Scientist,” got the green light from the USGA yesterday to use an iron that he designed and printed himself. You might recognize DeChambeau from his TikTok stunts and friendship with Kevin Hart. (He has also won two US Opens, in 2020 and 2024.) He’s never won a Masters, but he got close last year, finishing fifth. But if your golf knowledge is limited to whatever minimal skills you picked up during a weeklong middle-school camp you didn’t want to attend, DeChambeau is best known for tinkering with his clubs and trying other kooky strategies to give himself an edge (and hitting the ball crazy far). He helped popularize the once-controversial single-length irons. Will he win this thing? Despite rolling into the tournament with a lot of hype following back-to-back wins on the LIV Golf tour, DeChambeau triple bogeyed the 11th hole yesterday during Round 1. No one has ever come back from something like that to win the Masters. Maybe he can 3D print a green jacket. |