Bryson DeChambeau won a European Tour event today. It’s his first win overseas, but his fourth win in his last nine starts. He is now ranked No. 5 in the world. Is there an Alaskan kid out there thinking they should start studying physics?

DeChambeau is famously known as the mad scientist of golf. He supposedly uses science to come up with the closest thing to a perfect, repeatable swing a human body can create. There may be some truth to what he is preaching, but he gets a little backlash from a lot of golfers who think it’s all a bunch of hooey.

DeChambeau’s recent success is almost certainly primarily due to a huge dose of practice more than it is due to his mechanics. No matter how technically sound a golf swing is, it’s the touch and the feel part of the game that makes a score. You can hit a shot perfectly straight on the line you intend, but if you don’t judge the distance just right or the wind or the slope of the green, you won’t end up close to the hole.

Then of course there is that putting part of the game. You have to make putts to score well and you can’t make putts if you can’t get the speed just right. Judging the speed of a putt will always require touch and feel. There is no mechanical form to tell you how hard to hit a putt.

Hitting the golf ball straight, however, is a huge part of the game and one most amateurs wish they could master. DeChambeau may be on to something when it comes to finding an easier way to guarantee your golf ball flies straight, so amateurs should give his methods a try. The more success Dechambeau has the more people are going to want to copy him. It will be interesting to see what kind of success they have.