There’s no such thing as an easy victory for Bryson DeChambeau, no matter how stress-free his closing 64 at the Dubai Desert Classic may have seemed.
The relentless grind has become his hallmark, and his tour de force in Dubai – his fourth win in his last nine worldwide starts – was emblematic of why he’s been able to crack the game’s upper echelon.
Consider that he was making his first start there since 2016, when he was stuck in amateur limbo, after leaving SMU early and waiting until the Masters to turn pro. So much has changed since then – his level of self-belief, his putting style, the Rules of Golf – but on the eve of this year’s tournament he recalled that in his prior visit there, he’d struggled on the greens.