DeChambeau: We want Cup more

Bryson DeChambeau is on course.

Bryson DeChambeau has a message for the international team during the Presidential Cup – and it's mostly blunt.

Asked at a teleconference in the media today how excited he expected international rookies like Cameron Smith to be in Royal Melbourne in December, DeChambeau, who is also debuting in the team competition for the United States, said: "I don't know what they're going to do I am not in their head, but I could certainly say from my point of view, from my point of view, no matter how much they want it, we will want it more. I know that. "

DeChambeau, 26, is not new to Royal Melbourne, as he played the Master of the Amateurs there in 2015, where he finished third.

"I think the keys around that song will be rock solid," he said. “Certainly, it's a position golf course. The ball can run out considerably, and playing in the right part of the green from the right angle is very important. You know, so you have to have great opportunities to hit the ball in order to work both ways and control your ball and also control the twist around the greens. So that's personally what I think you have to do well to succeed there, at least from my memories when I played in the Australian Master of the Amateurs.

“For example, I believe 18, at least when we played it – it may not be the same 18 when we play it this year – but it was a dogleg right, and you had to make a cut shot. If you tie in that last tee-shot, at least as far as I remember, it was very, very difficult to keep it in the fairway.

“One more, I believe it is (number) seven … one of the par-three on the hill, heavily guarded by bunkers – and you had to be super precise with your iron game, at least on that hole, especially on that hole.

“So for me, as I remember, the great memories I had, and I'm a pretty good ball attacker and iron player, that's what you had to do well to succeed there. To be honest, I think why I played really well when I went down. "

DeChambeau resumed the game last weekend but missed the cut at the Greenbrier tournament. He enjoys a break after a hectic period in which his world ranking climbed to number 5. It is currently at number 11.

"I haven't had a lot of breaks the whole couple of years," he said. “I feel that getting some good rest is really justified and necessary to do my best. That is one thing. So I'm taking a little break. But I will play the Hero World Challenge and maybe a few other PGA Tour events that lead there.

“I wish there was a match play event that we could play. That would be incredible. That would help us enormously. "

DeChambeau has previously represented America on a professional level; he was a member of the Ryder Cup team in France in 2018 and lost all three of his matches when Europe won an astonishing victory.

He believes that this time he will be a more valuable team member as a more mature person. "Well, I think it will be useful to express my opinion a little more, to be included a little more in the team," he said. “I am now more comfortable with regard to team events. It (France) is my first time. I didn't know what to say or do, or whatever, but if I look back and people said you should have talked, man, if you had some beliefs and thoughts. That is why you are on the team. & # 39;

“So hopefully when I go down and see the golf course and see the games of people, see how we can best fit the team together, I can hopefully help to be a part of it. I clearly do not have the same experience, but I have always been on the losing side of teams internationally when it comes to match play events: Ryder Cup, Walker Cup, Arnold Palmer Cup.

“And I have seen every time that the reason why we fail is because two things: one, we are not comfortable with the golf course and the way it plays, or two, we just don't match games very well together or play golf, so how a player plays compared to someone else and how they want to make certain shots, and for alternate-shot it is an incredibly important format in which you have to do well. You just have to match games very well together. "