There’s another “Desert Classic” this week and it’s not in the States, it’s over in another desert and that would be Dubai.
Last week Brooks Koepka and Dustin Johnson collected their fat appearance fees to play in Abu Dhabi in the HSBC Championship on the European Tour.
Now it’s Bryson DeChambeau’s turn.
Golf’s mad scientist who is ranked No. 5 in the world, headlines this week’s Dubai Desert Classic.
This is the 30th edition of the championship and last year’s was very exciting with Haotong Li holding off Rory McIlroy to win by a shot.
McIlroy gave Abu Dhabi the cold shoulder this week and will make his 2019 debut at the Farmer’s back in the States at Torrey Pines.
No worries, DeChambeau has a pretty good supporting cast with Tommy Fleetwood, Henrik Stenson, Ian Poulter, former Masters champ Sergio Garcia and the renewed Lee Westwood.
Should be fun for DeChambeau. He’s picking up fans everywhere thanks to his unique style, fat grips, one-length irons and his approach to the game that brings in science, math, physics and sometimes geometry. This guy marches to music that no one else can hear.
What DeChambeau and the field get is a highly-manicured golf course — just like last week in Abu Dhabi, which claims to be “the world’s richest city.” Well folks, Dubai is pretty flush as well, attracts tourists from all over Europe an the Emirates Golf Club is plush, very plush.
It will simple depend on desert winds or lack thereof. Conditions overall were pretty perfect in Abu Dhabi last week.
So it’s onward with Bryson — science comes to The Middle East.
