PGA CHAMPIONSHIP

May 18, 2025

Bryson DeChambeau

Quail Hollow Club

Quick Quotes

Q. You seem to always find a way to contend in major tournaments like this. What did it take to get here today and how do you evaluate what you did out there?

BRYSON DeCHAMBEAU: I don't even know. I'm baffled right now. Just felt like things just didn't go my way this week. Drove it really well. I drove it as good as I can, as of right now, I gave myself a good chance. I just felt like a couple breaks went a different way.

There were times where I feel like I pressed. Green Mile did it to me yesterday and kind of did it to me again today, and that's golf, man. I've got to be more precise and fix what I can fix to make myself more consistent and get up there, the likes what have Scottie is doing right now.

Q. Where does the Green Mile and this course rank as far as a challenging finish from what you've experienced in your career?

BRYSON DeCHAMBEAU: It's definitely one of the toughest. I couldn't rank it because there's so many golf courses, so many places but it's probably top three, top five for sure.

Q. Obviously not the day you were expecting or hoping for?

BRYSON DeCHAMBEAU: Not at all. Look, it was a tough round of golf out there. I played solid. Not making birdie on 10, 11 or 12 really stung and 3-putting -- not 3-putting, not getting up-and-down. I hit a great shot on 13. Not getting up-and-down and having some incredible up-and-downs on 14, 15 put some life back into me.

But 10 through 13 really stunted me, and if I birdie 10, get up-and-down, I birdie 8, don't double 17 and bogey 16, I mean, you name it. I've got a dozen shots I could look back at and be like, man, that could have been way different. And we're looking at a different story.

Another top five. Always proud to top five in a major. I feel like I'm playing good when I'm doing that but I mean, it's disappointing not to get the job done because that's what I came here to do.

Q. Obviously you've been talking about the fact that you've been driving the ball well but your wedge play had been bad. Can you talk about what you'd done over the last couple days to rectify that and is that something you can fix?

BRYSON DeCHAMBEAU: Absolutely. What I really think needs to happen, being pretty transparent here, is just get a golf ball that flies a little straighter. Everybody talks about how straight the golf ball flies. Well, upwards of 190 like Rory and myself, it's actually quite difficult to control the golf ball.

The ball sidespins quite a bit and it gets hit by the wind quite a bit because our golf balls are just longer in the air. So I'm looking at ways of how to rectify that so that my wedges can be even tighter so it can fly straighter.

I feel like there are times where I hit wedges and it just overcurves, depending how high and how much time it is in the air and how much spin is on the ball.

So I think that's really what I'm going to be looking at now along with some equipment stuff to just make myself a little more precise the next time so we don't have what happened this week happen.

Q. Are those changes you can make between now and the U.S. Open?

BRYSON DeCHAMBEAU: I don't know. I'm going to work my butt to have make that happen. It's all up to manufacturing. We'll see what happens but I'm keen on finding something and I'm keen on improving. I'm excited for that.