The distance debate cropped up during last week’s Players Championship, when Ludvig Aberg produced a tee shot of over 300 yards despite contact being made nowhere near the center of the face.
It led to many questioning equipment within the game and, ahead of LIV Golf South Africa, Bryson DeChambeau gave his thoughts on the matter, with the big-hitting American claiming it’s not the equipment that is the reason for distance being maximized.
DeChambeau averaged 328.8 yards off the tee in 2025
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“I think there’s a legal limit set for everything. There’s really not a way to go around it. If you want to say that a driver back in 2009 is worse than now, I would actually disagree with you on that,” argued DeChambeau, who has ranked inside the top five for Driving Distance every year he’s been playing on LIV Golf.
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“I think they’re relatively the same and not much has changed. You can’t change it that much with the rules being the way they are.
“So I think it’s a lot more the athletic ability, and not being as afraid to go after shots or swing harder or be more aggressive.
“I caution anybody that tries to change the rules in the game because they’ve already been established. Let the athletes be the athletes and let’s go have some fun.”
During Covid DeChambeau gained approximately 50 pounds and embarked on Long Drive
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Along with DeChambeau, his Crushers GC teammates also waded in on the discussion, with Paul Casey agreeing with his captain.
“I agree with that because we’ve seen significant jumps,” said Casey, who went on to add “we saw the jump from persimmon to steel drivers and then into the graphite shafts and there’s always these jumps. I’m a Titleist guy, but when the Professional came out, there was a huge jump in technology.
“It’s no slant on the OEMs; the OEMs are doing what they do. They’re trying to make the game a little easier, a little more fun, golf ball go a little further. Remember, the architects did their thing with pushing out the golf courses, building more houses. It was always something. There’s no blame anywhere in this stuff.
“I will say there’s not enough credit given to the athlete and how hard the athletes now work, and…
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