Golfer Bryson DeChambeau wants to ‘live to 100’ after 20kg weight loss

Golf star Bryson DeChambeau is a new man after losing 20kg in a bid to rediscover his best form ahead of the PGA Championship.

Bryson DeChambeau is in the field for the PGA Championship this week at Oak Hill, so of course, he’s back to being weird in the public eye again.

A slimmed-down DeChambeau gave an interview at LIV Golf Tulsa over the weekend – when he came in a tie for fifth place, alongside rival Brooks Koepka – and invoked a classic quote from years ago when he said he wanted to live to be “130 or 140” years old.

The NY Post reports this time, though, he was a little more reasonable with his aim.

“I feel a lot cleaner and healthier and feel like I can live to over 100 now finally,” he said.

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“A year and a half ago I was like, oh, man, that thing that I talked about living to 120, I don’t know if I can get there now with the weight I put on. A little different now.”

DeChambeau’s original quote, which caused a stir in the golf world, came from a 2020 GQ interview in which he talked about bulking his body up during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“I’m always trying to add more value to my life in general,” DeChambeau said. “I mean, my goal is to live to 130 or 140. I really think that’s possible now with today’s technology. I think somebody’s going to do it in the next 30 or 40 years.”

Bryson DeChambeau has lost 20kg. Photos: Instagram, Getty.

Now, after being one of the big names who left the PGA Tour in 2022 to join the controversial LIV Golf tour, “The Scientist” has slimmed back down again, looking nearly unrecognisable from the linebacker-esque form he debuted a few short years ago.

DeChambeau detailed in a separate interview with The Telegraph that his Hulked-up frame took a toll on his body.

He has switched to a diet more focused on vegetables.

“Anything and everything,” DeChambeau told the paper when asked how he bulked up initially. “And I just thought a lot of protein, a lot of carbs, you know. But there were a lot of refined sugars that was not good for the body.

“They [the medics] did blood work, measured stuff in my gut biome and I was super inflamed. So they said, if you want to live a longer life, you definitely have to change your diet, because your gut’s not liking what’s going on. So I did.”

I asked Bryson Dechambeau if his weight changes have effected his golf swing over the past year, and his answer was really interesting: pic.twitter.com/Fd4scMMNwA

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And once again, because he’s Bryson, he’s convinced this new version of himself is the one that’s going to be what makes him live well into the triple digits.

Bryson DeChambeau is a changed man. Photo: Michael Reaves/Getty Images/AFP.

DeChambeau after winning the 2020 US Open. (Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images)

“I would say that my body definitely has changed, and my swing is probably going to change, as well,” DeChambeau said. “That’s part of the process I’m trying to figure out. I was a lot skinnier and leaner when I was hitting it dead straight every single time in 2018. That wasn’t the reason why I tried to get leaner, I just tried to decrease inflammation in my body, which I feel a heck of a lot better, man.”

Despite the new physique and his positive result in Tulsa, DeChambeau’s form when compared to the other elite golfers in the world remains middling at best.

In his three non-LIV events since joining the breakaway tour – the 2023 Masters, 2022 Open Championship, and the 2022 Saudi International (a European Tour event) – DeChambeau has missed two cuts, though he did finish in a tie for 8th at St. Andrews in last year’s Open.

This article originally appeared in the NY Post and was reproduced with permission.

Originally published as Golfer Bryson DeChambeau wants to ‘live to 100’ after 20kg weight loss