Bryson DeChambeau asked AI to fix his golf swing – here’s what it said

After a bad round, Bryson DeChambeau turned to Google’s Gemini AI in search of answers – and believes it helped him identify a flaw in his golf swing.

If a tour pro was going to use artificial intelligence to fix his golf swing, it was always going to be Bryson DeChambeau.

Following a frustrating spell during last week’s LIV Golf Korea, the two-time US Open champion revealed he had turned to Google’s Gemini AI in search of answers.

DeChambeau had started the week well, posting rounds of 65 and 68 to sit within touching distance of the lead.

But a one-over-par 71 on Saturday saw him slide down the leaderboard, with the 32-year-old later revealing what had gone wrong.

“I went out to never-neverland,” he said. “The beginning of the first round, I felt great. Golf swing felt in sync. Then it started getting out of sync and it felt like my hands were getting ahead of me. It continued that way for the next two rounds, and it was very frustrating.”

Never afraid to try the unconventional in his endless pursuit of improvement, the two-time US Open winner turned to AI for help.

“I was slamming the club in the ground, trying to figure out what to do. I was frustrated. Been trying everything in my body. I didn’t actually figure it out on the range. I went back and started talking to Gemini and trying to figure out just what it could be to passively make the club turn over. Hands just felt like they were moving forward and I couldn’t get the club to turn over.

“I spent some long hours on the range trying to figure some stuff out and I was talking to AI quite a bit last night trying to go through some different physics principles that makes the club turn over, having some alpha torque and gamma torque put in there. I was like, ‘what makes that possibly do that?’, and was talking about just grip pressure and tension.

The Saturday night session clearly worked, with DeChambeau posting a final-round 65 that matched the best round of the day to finish just one shot off the lead.

“I came out here today with just a little bit more freer hands, and I felt the club a lot better, and I felt like I could close the club a lot more effectively and then I started striping it,” he explained.

“From then on out, I was able to kind of control it. Still missed some wedges to the right coming in, which is kind of frustrating, but that’s just me holding on a little bit rather than just letting it go.

“I feel like I’m on the right path now, and I had it okay in the first round, but really felt it – I felt really good this round. I felt better than I did in the first round, which is a good trend.”

The third-place finish was DeChambeau’s fifth top-5 showing on LIV this season, including back-to-back wins in Singapore and South Africa, but the 32-year-old still has a long way to go to make this a successful season by his own lofty standards.

“I’m proud of the way I persevered to finish third without really anything,” he said. “Hopefully it continues, and I’m just continuing to learn. That’s the thing; this game is so brutal. Missing two cuts at the majors and you feel like you’re golden going in there, won a couple events and playing well, and this game can kick you when you’re at your highest.

“It goes for all of us, not just me. It’s everybody here. Everybody wants to win.

“I think that’s the beautiful part about golf is that it can kick you when you’re at your highest or it can bring you up when you’re at your lowest, and yet we have to respect the game for that.”

If DeChambeau does contend at Shinnecock in a couple of weeks’ time, don’t be surprised if Gemini gets a small share of the credit.