‘Bryson (Dechambeau) is very demanding’

Following a split they both equally insist was not at all acrimonious, the previous caddie for Bryson DeChambeau said on a podcast this week that his longtime employer is continuously pushing the envelope, even with guidance team.

“Bryson is really demanding. I believe which is a wonderful attribute from an employer mainly because it makes you get better,” caddie Tim Tucker mentioned on the Subpar podcast, hosted by former Tour player Colt Knost and Drew Stoltz. “If you are not getting far better and learning and pushing everything you are undertaking, then you turn into complacent and start creating faults and you are not continuing to develop.

“He helps make you do that, and it’s unbelievable. He requires it from most people.”

Tucker give up performing for DeChambeau, who sits No. 6 in the Formal Entire world Golf Ranking and No. 12 in the Golfweek/Sagarin rankings, just forward of his title defense at the Rocket Home loan Typical.

Tucker caddied for DeChambeau in the follow rounds that week, which include Wednesday’s pro-am. Tucker has been on the bag for DeChambeau for all of his eight PGA Tour victories, together with the 2020 U.S. Open up. DeChambeau went by means of a slew of caddies early in his career, such as a preceding crack with Tucker, right before building him his constant bagman in 2018.

The two achieved when DeChambeau was 15 at Dragonfly Golfing Club in Fresno, California, exactly where Tucker was teaching eco-friendly reading through. He explained by the conclusion of the week, DeChambeau was supporting to instruct the system.

“He wrapped his head close to it so quick,” Tucker stated. “I’m inquiring, hey Bryson, what do you do? He claimed, ‘Well, I really do not look at Tv, but I adore science, I enjoy physics.’ He was telling me that he thinks in time vacation, but it is achievable that we’ll never ever figure it out, and he’s almost certainly correct.

“He’s almost never wrong about the things that he’s pushing.”

DeChambeau was scheduled to be collaborating in the Tokyo Olympics, but as portion of the ultimate tests protocol in advance of he remaining the United States for Japan, he analyzed constructive for COVID-19.

In the meantime, Tucker — a previous Bandon Dunes caddie — is set to open up a new Bandon Dunes-based mostly luxury bus transportation business enterprise in August and had been working on that venture.

“I’ve been incredibly fortuitous to be capable to caddie for this dude,” Tucker added. “He is the hardest-doing work guy I have at any time observed. He sacrifices anything for this recreation.”