DETROIT – There were plenty of eye-popping stats from Bryson DeChambeau’s three-shot victory at the Rocket Mortgage Classic, but one in particular seemed especially awry. While leading the field in driving distance and multiple strokes-gained categories, he ranked 70th out of the 70 players who made the cut in proximity to the hole.
As it turned out, that was in part because DeChambeau essentially broke the PGA Tour’s ShotLink measurements with his length off the tee.
DeChambeau averaged 329.8 yards per tee shot this week at Detroit Golf Club, and he reached a 350.6 average on the two holes the Tour used to officially measure driving distance.