Heavy hitter talk of Masters

Since golf returned in June from the COVID-19 pandemic, Bryson DeChambeau showed up with his incredible bulk, more than 40 pounds of muscle and mass, all to support a swing that his producing prodigious shots. He has driven into groups on the green on a par 4. He powered (and putted) his way to the lowest score ever at Winged Foot to win the U.S. Open by six shots. And he says he is just getting started. “He went to the nth degree of everything we have available to us — science, TrackMan, biomechanics, everything,” Rory McIlroy said. “He’s worked his (tail) off.” DeChambeau is the talk of golf going into next weekend’s Masters, where he hopes to unveil a 48-inch driver, the legal limit typically seen only in long drive competitions. That’s where this latest experiment all began. It was a year ago in September when DeChambeau watched Kyle Berkshire win the World Long Drive Championship with his final blast that carried 400 yards. “The real light-bulb moment,” DeChambeau said. “I said, ‘If I could do that and hit it straight, what would happen?’ ”