Bryson DeChambeau turns to AI to fix his swing when he needs Mike Schy

Bryson DeChambeau still is search for his swing. This week, at LIV Korea where he finished third, he could be found banging his clubs in the ground after dark during a late-night range session and seeking help laying in bed from Google Gemini of all places.

>What DeChambeau needs is Mike Schy, not AI. Perhaps, it is time for DeChambeau to let bygones be bygones and reunite with former longtime coach.

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>Those two had a nasty public falling out a few years ago after DeChambeau, who had moved on to working with Dana Dahlquist as his swing coach, a sad break-up of what was a father-son-type relationship that was chronicled by Golfweek.

>But since then, DeChambeau’s game has been hit or miss at the majors – he played in the final group at the 2025 Masters alongside Rory McIlroy but skied to 74 – and has missed three of his last four cuts at majors, including the first two of this season.

>The frustration with his game bled over to Korea, where DeChambeau’s team won the title for a LIV record 10th time and he finished T-3, a shot out of a playoff won by Joaquin Niemann.

>“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,” DeChambeau explained on Sunday in Korea. “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 like this and I couldn't get the club to turn over. Even if I tried to stop it here, it still wouldn't turn over. So, I left kind of frustrated and learned later that night that I just needed to relax my grip pressure and let the thing just fold over naturally.”

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>If DeChambeau really wants to make more history beyond the two majors he’s already won, he should bite the bullet, pick up the phone and make up with Schy rather than relying on a chat bot. Schy had been the one constant in DeChambeau’s golf life. Their relationship had shifted to more of an advisory role, but it was still Schy who connected DeChambeau with Krank golf for the driver he uses and Avoda for the irons he won the U.S. Open with at Pinehurst. DeChambeau keeps talking about getting back to playing the way he did at Liv Greenbrier in 2024, when he shot 58 and rolled to victory. That’s when Schy was whispering sweet nothings in his ear. Instead, DeChmabuea's so desperate for help and so frustrated with the recent outcomes that he’s sunk to asking AI for a quick fix.

>“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,” he said.

>DeChambeau can be stubborn, and clearly there are hard feelings to mend, but Schy still keeps an eye on his former pupil’s game. He can’t help himself. He watched DeChambeau win the LIV event ahead of the Masters, and was please to see his swing was in a good groove and confidence was high. In fact, he told friends that DeChambeau was going to win at Augusta National in April. That is until he noticed DeChambeau obsessing over his driver on the range as he is prone to do and texted everyone prior to the start of the Masters that he took back what he had said. He had a different prediction for DeChambeau at the Masters. Instead, he expected DeChambeau to be hitting duck hooks all week as he tried to correct excess right-side bend in his swing. DeChambeau shot 76-74 and missed the cut.

>“This game is so brutal,” DeChambeau said on Sunday. “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.”

>With the U.S. Open and British Open still looming, DeChambeau still could avoid this major season being a lost year but the clock is ticking and Schy, his swing and equipment whisperer, is only a phone call away. DeChambeau needs Schy, not AI. If DeChambeau truly cares about his place in history, he should make things right – and that includes financially – with Schy, who has watched more of DeChambeau’s swings than Gemini AI could ever compute.

>This article originally appeared on Golfweek: Bryson DeChambeau uses Google Gemini AI to fix his golf swing