Bryson DeChambeau credited a Sunday 65 to a chat he had on Saturday. It just wasn’t with a person.
Always one to push the boundaries when it comes to improving, the two-time U.S. Open champ credited that final round at the LIV Korea event to a talk he had with Google Gemini. Or, maybe, he should call the AI program Coach G. Regardless, he was happy with the results, a third-place finish, one shot out of a playoff won by Joaquin Niemann.
“I spent some long hours on the range trying to figure some stuff out and I was talking to AI quite a bit last night trying to go through some different physics principles that makes the club turn over, having some alpha torque and gamma torque put in there,” DeChambeau told reporters. “I was like, what makes that possibly do that, and was talking about just grip pressure and tension.”
Bryson DeChambeau shot a final round 65 to finish 3rd at LIV Golf Korea, just 1 shot out of the playoff. He said after the round that the improvement was due to the work he did with Gemini AI after the 71 on Saturday:
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DeChambeau had struggled the past couple months and he says he felt frustrated Saturday night before turning to his AI pal.
“I was slamming the club in the ground trying to figure out what to do. I was frustrated. Been trying everything in my body. I didn’t actually figure it out on the range. I went back and started talking to Gemini and trying to figure out just what it could be to passively make the club turn over,” DeChambeau explained. “Hands just felt like they were moving forward like this and I couldn’t get the club to turn over. Even if I tried to stop it here, it still wouldn’t turn over. . . . So I left kind of frustrated and learned later that night that I just needed to relax my grip pressure and let the thing just fold over naturally.”
This shouldn’t be too surprising considering DeChambeau’s history in this space. The 32-year-old signed a partnership deal with Google Cloud in September to “expand his AI aspirations.” And in April, he led a group of investors in the purchase of Sportsbox AI, a smartphone biomechanics app he had been using.
“I’m still working it out,” DeChambeau added. “I don’t have the answer.”
Who really does, Bryson? Not even Gemini.
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