“Pretty downward trending motion”- Bryson DeChambeau opens up about his one shortcoming in golf despite being on a ‘good streak’

LIV Golf Invitational – Andalucia – Day One
Bryson DeChambeau at LIV Golf Andalucia ( via Getty)
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Bryson DeChambeau won the US Open this year, but he says he hasn’t been successful at all when it comes to scoring eagles until he shot one at the LIV Golf Andalucia.

Rejoicing in his moment of satisfaction, the LIV golfer opened up about his thoughts at a press conference on Saturday after the match. Bryson DeChambeau explained how he had been in good form but eagles were rare in his life.

“ I’ve been very blessed and I’m on a good streak in my life. You have ups and downs in your career and look I’ve only made one hole-in-one in my life. So I’ll say I’m pretty downward trending motion on that. So anytime you can get what you can get out there and hole out a slam dunk… I’ve never slam dunked it – that was the cool part – that’s what I was appreciative of. And golf is golf, you’re going have weird stuff happen to you,” DeChambeau said (3:18-3:45).
He continued, “There’s plenty of players that have 40 hole in ones, there’s players that have one hole in one like myself. So it’s just a crazy game and one you got to just look at it and laugh and love it because of it.” (3:45-3:54)
Bryson DeChambeau shot his first eagle on hole 14 on Saturday’s round of LIV Golf Andalucia. His final score was 67 at the end of the round.

How much can Bryson DeChambeau earn from a win at LIV Golf Andalucia?
The purse of the LIV Golf Andalucia is $25 million, out of which $4 million goes to the winner and $5 million is for the teams. Here’s the entire breakdown of the purse:

1: $4 million

2: $2.25 million

3: $1.5 million

4: $1 million

5: $800,000

6: $700,000

7: $600,000

8: $525,000

9: $442,500

10: $405,000

11: $380,000

12: $360,000

13: $340,000

14: $330,000

15: $300,000

16: $285,000

17: $270,000

18: $260,000

19: $250,000

20: $240,000

21: $230,000

22: $220,000

23: $210,000

24: $200,000

25: $195,000

26: $190,000

27: $185,000

28: $180,000

29: $175,000

30: $170,000

31: $165,000

32: $160,000

33: $155,000

34: $150,000

35: $148,000

36: $145,000

37: $143,000

38: $140,000

39: $138,000

40: $135,000

41: $133,000

42: $130,000

43: $128,000

44: $128,000

45: $125,000

46: $125,000

47: $123,000

48: $120,000

49: $60,000

50: $60,000

51: $60,000

52: $50,000

53: $50,000

54: $50,000

Added to these, here’s how much each of the teams will receive:

WIN: $3 million

2: $1.5 million

3: $500,000

Currently, Bryson DeChambeau sits at T6 on the leaderboard with 1-under. Right before him is Tyrell Hatton, who sits at T3 with 2-under. Martin Kaymer also sits on the T3 position of the leaderboard and is tied with Chacarra. Currently, Anirban Lahiri sits atop the leaderboard with 7-under and he scored 69 and 66 over the two rounds.

Edited by Eeshaan Tiwary