Amateur superstar Bryson DeChambeau has names for all his clubs at the Masters

In a field with Jordan Spieth, Rory McIlroy and Phil Mickelson, the name who has attracted the most attention early in Masters week is Bryson DeChambeau. He’s the heralded amateur from SMU who thinks he’s got a real shot not just to make the cut, but to win the green jacket. Once the NCAA sanctioned SMU, he spent almost all his time dedicated to this week’s amateur appearance at Augusta. He’s played 11 practice rounds, got in pro reps with different exemptions to PGA Tour and European Tour events, and studied every piece of Augusta history.

DeChambeau is an elite prospect. He’s in a class with names like Tiger Woods and Mickelson as players who have won the NCAA Championship and US Amateur in the same year. But more of the interest in DeChambeau centers around his extremely different approach to the game. He’s a physics wiz who rattles of terms and concepts that lose about 90 percent of the golf press listening. And part of his different, “Golfing Machine”-based approach is using irons that are all the same length. They’re all about as long as his 7-iron, whether it’s his pitching wedge or 3-iron. No one does this. DeChambeau says he tried it out because he wanted to make every swing on the same plane. He also believes it will make him more comfortable and be easier on his back.

The clubs may all be the same length, but they all have different names. DeChambeau is definitely a little odd, and this is one of the ways. He rattled off the reasons and story behind each name this week (21:05 mark below).

Aight.

That may be hell on your caddie, but whatever works, Bryson.