News How to watch Bryson DeChambeau in the World Long Drive on Wednesday By: The most obvious modification is a decrease in loft from 5.5 to 4.5 degrees to keep DeChambeau’s spin rate in check. As you’d expect, the driver he’s wielding this week is a modified version of the head he typically uses on a week-to-week basis on tour. If DeChambeau is going to contend the rest of the way, he’ll need his Cobra driver to produce some gargantuan numbers. I’d never hit on that grid, that was my first time going out there and hitting.”

“I felt like I just won something - like I won a big PGA tournament - even though I only qualified for the next day, because that was my first time. “It was amazing - hitting it over 400 a couple times,” DeChambeau told. He even managed to touch 214 mph ball speed during warmups, a number that puts him in the conversation to make some noise and possibly crack the top 10 against some of the longest hitters in the world, including former champion - and fellow Cobra staffer - Kyle Berkshire. But on this particular week, he’s just another long drive basher with a sub-5-degree head and aspirations of taking home the World Long Drive title in Mesquite, Nevada.įor the moment, DeChambeau’s dream is still alive after advancing to Day 2 of qualifying at the event. The 4.5-degree sticker affixed to Bryson DeChambeau’s Cobra Radspeed driver would look out of place on a PGA Tour range in a sea of 9- and 10.5-degree heads.

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