Bryson DeChambeau Has Historic Round in Jersey City

Golf sometimes can be an awe inspiring sport. Week after week we watch the best in the world take to the toughest tracks in the world and they dazzle us with their top tier skill. At that same time, golf can also be the most random sport ever. The first round for Bryson DeChambeau at The Northern Trust qualifies as such.

Look, I know, and those of you that are regularly on the site know that Bryson DeChambeau is not one of my favorite players in the world. Yes, typically I never miss a chance to take a swipe at him, but this is not one of those times. Bryson did something truly historic on Thursday.

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DeChambeau did something nobody has ever done at The Northern Trust. He recorded two, yes two, pars all day. His card consisted of nine birdies, two pars, five bogies, and two double bogies.

If you didn’t already know that DeChambeau graduated with a degree in quantum physics, you’d think he was a geometry professor with all of the circles and squares he drew on his card.

The variety of results on his card pretty much tells the story of how DeChambeau’s day went. He was all over the place all day long. He missed fairways, greens, hit into tall fescue, leave chips short, miss putts. For as many as he missed, he made some great shots, made some clutch putts as well.

There were times where he really played well on Thursday. When it was all said and done DeChambeau would end up shooting and even-par 71, despite having NINE birdies.

To give you a better idea of how rare something like this is, consider this. This was just the fourth player to have just two pars and finish even or better in a round since the PGA started tracking hole-by-hole scores in 1983.

Kevin Johnson did it in 2010 at the Puerto Rico Open, Jarrod Lyle did it the next year at the John Deere Classic, and Kaname Yokoo holds the record of only making a single par at the Pebble Beach Pro-Am in 2001.

Unfortunately for Bryson, his extremely circuitous route back to even will force him to climb out of a hole on Friday. Jon Rahm and Justin Thomas tore up Liberty National and are tied for the lead at -8, three shots clear of everyone else.

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DeChambeau is still 7th in the FedEx Cu standings, so he’s in no danger to miss the BMW Championship next week, and should be fine to make The Tour Championship a week after.

It was really fun to watch one of the best players in the world go up and down escalators all day long, just to end up right where he started. But that’s golf folks.

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