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By Kent Gray
After the fourth win in his last eight starts and first outside the United States, what’s next for Bryson DeChambeau? How about doing with science what Tiger Woods did for golf with his previously unseen fitness regime back in the 90s? Sure, why not? In fact, DeChambeau even has a five-year plan for that.

From his opening press conference on Wednesday to his Sunday 64 and beyond, DeChambeau has set about breaking not only records but misconceptions about his scientific approach to the game.

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The fun continued in his champions’ presser after the 25-year-old Californian strolled to a record-shattering seven-stroke victory over Matt Wallace at Emirates Golf Club.

Just like Tiger Woods inspired you and your generation, Bryson, do you think today’s youngsters will look to copy your unorthodox methods?

“Shoot, I would hope so. It’s done well so far. I mean, what was it, four wins in nine starts? That’s not bad,’ he said.

“Not every kid is going to do it but I would say the more that you can understand the world around you, the more prepared you’re going to be, especially in such a variable-istic [he’s even inventing new words] game, the more prepared you’ll be for those variables. That’s all we try and do.

“Yeah, it’s technical and my swing, people think it’s goofy and whatever, putt weird and what I do is weird. But honestly, it’s the most comfortable thing for me because it’s what allows me to repeat motion, repeat things, time after time.

“That’s really what science is about. There’s no true law. It’s all, you know, theory, until proven, and there’s no way to really prove it. It’s just happening over time, and I think that if you look at what I do is consistently starting to show itself, that it is a good way to do it.”

DeChambeau gets that many outsiders looking in on his scientific approach think he’s a bit kooky but is utterly convinced his methods will eventually become mainstream, much like how Tiger has advanced the game.

“I’m not going to predict the future, but I know with what we do and how hard my caddie, Tim Tucker works, and how hard I work, I think we’ll figure stuff out that nobody’s figured out before. It makes a difference, it really does,

“I mean, I can see all the errors that everyone else is making on the golf course when I play with them. They hit a shot, and I’m like, well, it’s going to go long, or go short and we just know why it happens before it happens when they are talking about the yardages they are trying to play. We know it because the conditions are changing sometimes, and it’s fun. It’s fun to see that.

“So it does make an impact. I think more people are going to start taking into account, like, oh, my gosh, this is actually not a joke. This is legitimate science.”

You talked earlier in the week about being halfway along on your journey to understanding the game better than anyone ever before. Do you have a clear vision of what the remainder of that journey is?

“Absolutely,” DeChambeau started before adding a technological glitch no one else has clearly thought about. “I’ve got a plan. It’s going to take, probably, shoot, the technology isn’t there to figure out some of the stuff that I want to figure out, but it’s going to take probably about five years before we can get close to around 80 to 90 percent.

“The last part, we’ll never figure out wind. We can get a good estimate of what it should do but we’ll never be able to truly account for wind.

“It’s just about getting the dispersion a lot closer to the hole. I mean, Tour average, I think the best tour average is like 30 feet or something, and if you can just get it to 20 feet or get it to 15 feet or get it to 14 feet, you’re going to make more putts because of it. We’re getting there. It’s going to take some time, though, unfortunately.”

As he headed for King Abdullah Economic City and the new Saudi International where he’ll tee it up alongside Justin Rose, Brooks Koepka, Dustin Johnson and Patrick Reed, among others, DeChambeau was asked why his methods have clicked so spectacularly all of the sudden.

“It’s a domino effect, I think, of a lot of things just falling into place,” he said.

“The more variables that we figure out, we can’t figure everything out, but we’ve got a better understanding of how rough shots come out, of how bunker shots come out, of how putts break, — how different angles on the greens relative to the hole, how that truly effects what the putt needs to be for the proper terminal velocity.

“I don’t know if that makes sense, but in my brain, it does. It’s just a combination of a lot of things starting to fall into place.”

All of the above, much of it beyond mere golfing mortals, was delivered with honesty and humility along with a total belief in his push to advance golf to where it has never been.

It was fitting then that DeChambeau’s first offshore victory came in Dubai. The world No.5 doffed his Hogan-esque cap to the city at the prize presentation.

“I’m a kind of a techo, I love the future. This city is the future, it really is. I love Dubai.”

There was also titbits of humour that showed a side of the rookie Ryder Cupper we rarely see inside the ropes.

Now you’ve won ($541, 660, no less) can you share the secret of putting the Majlis’ grainy greens, you know the theory you’ve been working on ever since winning low amateur honours here back in your debut appearance in 2016. The “secret sauce” which snared 26 birdies and two eagles this week (against just six bogeys)?

“That’s a lot of hard work, man, I’m not just willing to give up. If you pay me a lot, I would,” DeChambeau said to laughter from the press corps.

“That’s something that is proprietary. It’s something that we’ve worked hard to figure out, and that’s why I think we were successful this week. We made a lot of putts because of it. There are times where the grain was going the opposite way of the slope, and okay, going to do this, and it did.”