As 32-year-old Bryson DeChambeau looks to win his first Masters Tournament this weekend, the golfer known as “The Scientist” has cooked up an especially unique strategy in his lab: using homemade clubs.
He told ESPN on Wednesday that he plans to use a 5-iron that he made with a 3D printer.
When asked by reporters Wednesday about using new clubs during an earlier tournament in South Africa, DeChambeau said his propensity for making big changes comes from “the willingness to always try to improve.”
“There’s this nature that I have about myself where innovation is a habit of mine, and I really find and take pride in that ability to learn, even through failure, even through making a bad decision or a good decision, what I can get from that,” he said.
DeChambeau added: “South Africa, I was trying wedges. So I was going quite a bit down a rabbit hole there and figured a couple cool things out. Hopefully it helps this week. Then I am working on irons, building irons, building a driver. So we’ll see where it goes, we’ll see where it takes me. All I could say now is, if I don’t put them in the bag, it’s my fault now.”
DeChambeau has long been known for his singular approach to clubs. He is the rare professional who uses the same length on each of his irons and wedges. A few years ago, he became the first pro to use a graphite shaft on all 14 of his clubs.
“It’s pretty simple,” he told The New York Times in 2016 about using the single-length clubs. “I knew that [Force] equals MA, mass and acceleration. Those two can be exchanged in relatively equal terms when swung at a relatively low velocity, like compared to other things in this world.”
Since DeChambeau defected to LIV Golf in 2022, he has won only one PGA Tour major, the U.S. Open in 2024. His best finish at the Masters came last year, when he finished tied for fifth.
