Bryson DeChambeau treats the golf course like it’s one of those “worlds” at the Gold Coast and he’s a kid with an all-access pass.

He goes everywhere, rides everything, stuffs his face with so many dagwood dogs, determined to suck every morsel of marrow from the experience, to explore every inch of the land.

Man, he’s fun to watch.

Because he goes so hard at the ball, he’s quite often wayward off the tee. And thus he’s often doing his thing out among the people. The fans are like right there, watching, on top of him. General admittance ticket holders with the very best seat in the house.

It’s hard to think of another sport which offers spectators such a close-up look at the play-action. You can’t sit next to the collisions in State of Origin or study up close the meaty thock of a Travis Head pull shot.

Only basketball, maybe, for the famous rich people in the courtside seats offers a look at the action up-close.


But in golf, when the players’ tee shots stray from the fairway, the punters can be right there, watching golf by the world’s best players. And when that player is Bryson James Aldrich DeChambeau, it’s visceral, powerful, spectacular.

At The Grange’s composite course we're following the major people, the market movers, the LIV Adelaide III leadership group – DeChambeau, Dustin Johnson and Marc Leishman of Warrnambool. And it is golden sports action.

DeChambeau plucks out driver on the short par-4 fourth and the punters roar approval. Then he fairly lashes the ball, long and downtown, its progress only halted by a bunker short left. From there he makes a sandie not unlike his U.S Open-winning extraction at Pinehurst No.2. You couldn’t hit the shot in your dreams.

From the seventh tee he fairly pulverises driver. There’s that big wind up, muscles bunched, the dexterity of Buzz Lightyear, and the ball soars away down the preferred left side of the par-5. There are audible gasps. It’s like … what? How can that be?

He pumps a mid-iron to 10-feet and rolls in the putt for eagle. And it’s safe to say he has verily emasculated the seventh hole. There appears no stopping him. They could roll-back his clubs to hickory niblicks and make him play with balls made of Sumatran resin, and he’d still own the seventh like the King of Sumatra owns a golden hat.

On eight he pulls one left and is out amongst the people. They can hear him speak to his caddie. He speaks to himself. He wafts a short wedge to the front, grinds out par. On nine he’s left again, big left, out on the third fairway. He smashes five-wood over the trees, over the back of the green. This is not the golf that Vern Morcom envisioned. It’s go hard or go home stuff. And he’s a long way from his home in Grapevine, Texas, our Bryson.

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Then he skips up a pure wedge that bites perfectly, stops, and trickles to tap-in. There’s a fist bump and a wave to the Birdie Shack beer-drinkers, and he strides onto the green in that way of his, like he’s hovering along on a conveyer at the airport.

He signs off with five-under 67 to be one shot behind Jon Rahm and Ben Campbell who both shot 63. He's happy enough with it.

“It was an interesting round of golf today," DeChambeau said afterwards. "I played a lot better than I scored. It was just an up-and-down day … but overall I played some solid golf.

“I'm seeing stuff that I haven't seen as early in a year in the past four or five years ... I'm comfortable over shots that are really difficult. To be feeling this good early on in the season is a great sign."

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DeChambeau added that he tries to make birdie on every single hole.

"If I have that mindset, I'll be fine come Sunday," he said.

We all will be - especially if we're up close.