Motivational Story - Bryson DeChambeau (Pro Golfer)



Greetings! For this piece. I wanted to bring to your attention a sports figure that has transformed himself into one of the most polarizing players in professional golf today. This is about Bryson DeChambeau, now ranked as the 5th best player in the World for Men’s Golf. Even if you do not follow the sport, this player’s story is worth watching.

A former physics major and NCAA golf champion during his years of studies at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. DeChambeau has been known as someone who takes a methodical, analytical approach to golf. He factors in math and science more than feel and touch like most of the other pros. He has never been traditional. He’s one that is going down his own path and confident that he is slowly building the right formula for what it would take to win consistently at the pro level.

It’s the change not only to his body but personal mindset as well that has created such a buzz in the sport? It all began a year ago when he would add close to 40 pounds to his six-foot-one frame going from a weight increase of 195 up to 235. This was Step One that he felt would help improve his swing power and ball distance he could generate off the tee.

To get to this level, DeChambeau devised a plan that would include four formal workouts per week along with daily yoga sessions. He then added in an unusual 3,500 calorie-overload diet per day mostly helped by the numerous protein shakes he began consuming. He admits he’ll drink at least two of them out on the course and same after a completed round plus at breakfast and dinner.

DeChambeau’s next step after much research was to invest himself with a travel-sized brain-training program. He describes it as an EEG sensor that is attached to his head when watching a movie as an example. The sensor gives him real-time data that monitors the peaks and valleys of his brain’s electrical current as the movie unfolds? DeChambeau’s goal is to avoid the spikes that occur at the most stressful, intense parts of the movie.

If the activity in his brain fires too high, the movie will immediately stop. Only when DeChambeau relaxes his brain and focuses on his breathing and getting his mind to reach back into a calm state and remain stress free, will his movie resume playing. These are all mindset exercises that he credits for his newfound success out on the course.

With all these new developments, DeChambeau has since been dubbed as the “Mad Scientist” on the golf tour as he maintains a relentless pursuit of optimizing his mind in search of an edge against his fellow pros. “It’s not like it's sports psychology? It’s actual technology, teaching the brain to fire differently,” he says. “At the end of the day, you’re trying to get a very small object a long way into a tiny hole, and there are so many ground and air factors that are going to make that task incredibly difficult.”

Since undergoing this most unusual sports science program a year ago, DeChambeau won four tournaments and also finished inside the top ten three different times. His driving distance is on the verge now of rewriting the PGA Tour record books - averaging 323.8 yards per tee shot – which leaves him on pace to snap the highest single-season total in golf history?

It’s truly a remarkable story that has caught the attention of the sports world! It’s also another reminder on just how powerful your Mindset is and how it can change the outcome of your game! 

Jim Loria


MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES RELATING TO THIS STORY 

"The person who masters himself through self-control and discipline is truly undefeatable" – stated by Gautama Buddha, 480 BC Indian philosopher and spiritual teacher

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“Everything you are, and everything you have, started as a thought in your mind. Your body is merely there to manifest physically that which the mind tells it to do. Everything starts with you telling the mind what you desire" – stated by Thomas D. Willhite, a teacher of human self-improvement

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“The technique and mind are just like the front and back of one’s hand, meaning they are very closely related” – stated by Yamashita Yoshiaki, the first person to have been awarded a 10th Degree Black Belt in Kodokan Judo


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