DeChambeau’s travails at Augusta National have been well chronicled. Perhaps no venue has so regularly vexed the 30-year-old — a T21 performance as an amateur in 2016 remains his best result at the Masters, and since his comment in 2020 that the course is a par 67 for him because of his length off the tee, he’s gone T34, T46, missed cut, missed cut. He was 10-over-par in his last three Masters first rounds.
Well, it seems certain he’ll make the weekend this time around. DeChambeau caught fire early, with birdies on his first three holes. A bogey on No. 9 dropped him to 2 under, but he got it
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