What Nicklaus would see is how the average par-4 now is more than 40 yards longer than in the 1970s. He would find himself with long irons, fairway woods or even frankly no club that he could ...

Bryson DeChambeau, though, isn’t nearly as big physically as he was two years ago or as brash in persona as he was in 2020, when he declared that Augusta National, for him, was a par 67.