MAMARONECK, N.Y. – Two moments were key for Bryson DeChambeau winning the U.S. Open.The first one was early in the week, when he played a practice round at Winged Foot with Phil Mickelson.
By then, DeChambeau already was sold on his plan of hitting driver every chance he could because it would be difficult for him and everyone else to hit many fairways.But it was during that practice round that Mickelson shared his experiences from 2006, when Lefty hit only one fairway in the final round and still nearly won.“He said, ‘In 2006, I had the best short-game week of my life,’ and that really stuck out to me for some reason,” DeChambeau said. “But I just knew that if I did hit it in the rough, I'm going to have to get it up-and-down quite a bit..