Bryson DeChambeau Age 2026: How Old Is DeChambeau?

Last updated: November 4, 2026  ·  By Nathan Cole

Bryson DeChambeau is 33 years old. He was born on September 16, 1993, in Modesto, California, and he turned 33 on September 16, 2026 — seven weeks before this article was last updated. That birthday matters for anyone reading older profiles: most of the age pages ranking for his name were written before September 2026 and still call him 32. They are out of date. He is 33, he captains Crushers GC in LIV Golf, and he owns two U.S. Open titles, won at Winged Foot in 2020 and at Pinehurst in 2024.

The number alone does not explain why people keep searching it. DeChambeau packed an unusual amount of golf history into his first 33 years: a physics degree path at SMU, an amateur double in 2015 that only four men had managed before him, a professional debut at 22, a first major at 27, a second at 30, and a move to LIV Golf at 28 that made him the captain of a team he still leads. Then, in the first week of November 2026, he gave the longest and most personal interview of his career, talking about LIV Golf’s bankruptcy, a proposed LIV 2.0, loneliness after a major win, periods of depression, and the father he lost in November 2022. What follows is the full picture, checked against reporting up to November 4, 2026: the age, the dates, the career at every milestone, and the life around the golf.

The Short Answer: 33, Born September 16, 1993

Bryson James Aldrich DeChambeau was born on September 16, 1993, in Modesto, California, to Jon Aldrich DeChambeau and Janet DeChambeau (née Druffel). He turned 33 on September 16, 2026. He will turn 34 on September 16, 2027. His zodiac sign, for the readers who ask, is Virgo — a detail the birthday pages all carry, and the only astrology this article will offer.

The arithmetic clears up the confusion on the search results page. Any profile that says 32 was written, or last updated, before September 16, 2026. Bet365’s profile, updated May 27, 2026, says 32 because he was 32 in May. JBSA Golf’s page, updated September 17, 2026 — one day after his birthday — still shows 32 in its table, which is simply a page that was not refreshed. National Club Golfer’s March 2026 profile says 31 in its body text, which was already stale when it was crawled. The date of birth never changed. Only the age did, on September 16, and every source dated from late October 2026 onward agrees: 33.

Modesto To Clovis: The First Seven Years And After

DeChambeau was born in Modesto, a farming city in California’s Central Valley, and moved with his family to Clovis, east of Fresno, at age seven, according to Wikipedia. His father, Jon, was an accomplished amateur golfer who later became director of operations at Riverbend Golf Club, and the game was in the house from the start. Clovis is where the junior record begins: he attended Clovis East High School and won the California State Junior Championship at 16 in 2010.

Two threads from those years run through everything that follows. The first is his father, whose long illness — diabetes diagnosed in the early 1990s, a kidney transplant from a high-school friend, years of dialysis — shaped the family’s life and, later, his son’s public reflections on grief. The second is school: DeChambeau was a strong student as well as a strong junior golfer, and when he graduated from Clovis East in 2012 he took a scholarship to Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, to study physics. He was 18. The golfer the public would later call “The Scientist” was, at that point, literally a physics major.

SMU And The 2015 Double Nobody Had Matched In A Decade

At SMU, DeChambeau played for the Mustangs and majored in physics, a combination that already set him apart in a sport where most elite juniors narrow their lives early. His coach from his teenage years, Mike Schy, had given him Homer Kelley’s dense technical book “The Golfing Machine” when he was 15, and the book’s systems thinking stuck. By his junior year, the results caught up with the theory.

June 2015 made him the first SMU Mustang ever to win the NCAA individual championship. He shot 280 (−8) over four rounds and won by one stroke over Cheng-Tsung Pan of Washington, closing with a 3-under run over his final seven holes after dropping into a tie for third, per SMU Athletics. Two months later, in August 2015, he won the U.S. Amateur, beating Derek Bard 7 & 6 in the 36-hole final. That made him the fifth player in history to win the NCAA individual title and the U.S. Amateur in the same year, after Jack Nicklaus (1961), Phil Mickelson (1990), Tiger Woods (1996), and Ryan Moore (2004). He was 21. No one had done the double since Moore, eleven years earlier.

The 2015 summer also gave him his first taste of professional golf. He made his PGA Tour debut as an amateur in June 2015 at the FedEx St. Jude Classic near Memphis and finished 45th. He kept his amateur status through the summer and autumn so he would not lose his Masters invitation, earned by the U.S. Amateur win. The plan worked: at the 2016 Masters he finished tied for 21st and was the low amateur. He was 22, and he turned professional days later.

Turning Pro At 22: The Masters, Cobra, And A First Win At 23

DeChambeau turned professional immediately after the 2016 Masters, in mid-April 2016, and signed a long-term agreement with Cobra-Puma Golf, per Wikipedia. His professional debut came at the RBC Heritage in South Carolina, where he finished tied for fourth — a start that suggested the amateur record would translate. His first professional win arrived that September, at the DAP Championship in the Web.com Tour playoffs, where he beat Andres Gonzales in a playoff and secured his PGA Tour card for 2017.

The first PGA Tour win took a little longer and came in his 40th start. On July 16, 2017, aged 23, he won the John Deere Classic by one stroke over Patrick Rodgers after a closing round of 65 at TPC Deere Run. The win also earned him a place in the 2017 Open Championship the following week, where he missed the cut. A year later, in 2018, he won four times on the PGA Tour, the breakout season that moved him from promising convert to a regular contender. He was 24 turning 25, and his world ranking climbed toward the top five — a peak of No. 4 that Wikipedia dates to May 9, 2021, when he was 27.

The Physics Approach: One Length, One Plane, Every Iron 37.5 Inches

DeChambeau’s nickname, “The Scientist,” comes from equipment, not personality. His irons and wedges are all cut to the same length — 37.5 inches, the length of a standard 7-iron — instead of the graduated lengths in a conventional set, where long irons are longer than short irons. The idea, drawn from “The Golfing Machine” and built with Schy from his first set at 17, is that one length means one setup, one posture, and one swing plane for every iron shot. Golf Digest Middle East adds the fine print: the heads all weigh 278 grams, and the lie angles sit at 72 degrees, ten degrees more upright than standard.

The system extends beyond the irons. He plays a single-plane swing, keeps detailed notes on spin, launch, and wind, and has stamped physics formulas on his wedges. Traditionalists mocked it at first; results quieted some of that. Cobra, which signed him when he turned pro, later released a consumer one-length iron set with his input. The approach also explains why his game changed so sharply in 2020: once he decided distance was the variable worth chasing, he attacked it with the same systems logic, and the numbers moved fast.

The Bulk-Up Era: About 40 Pounds, 322 Yards, And A New Kind Of Champion

During the pandemic shutdown in 2020, DeChambeau gained roughly 40 pounds through weight training and eating built around one goal: swing speed. Reports from the period put his driver swing speed above 135 mph and his ball speed beyond 200 mph. His average driving distance rose from 302.5 yards the previous season to 322.1 yards, the longest on the PGA Tour, and at the Rocket Mortgage Classic in July 2020 he averaged 350.6 yards off the tee for the week — reported at the time as the highest driving average ever recorded for a tournament winner.

The change was visible and divisive. At 6 ft 1 in, he had played his early professional years near 200 pounds; by the summer of 2020 he was listed around 235–240 pounds, and the SMU Daily Campus described the “6-foot-1, 240-pound newly minted muscle man of the PGA Tour” after his June 2020 win. The experiment had a cost: by March 2021 he said his swing had become too flat, too long, and too rotational, and he missed the cut at The Players Championship. He later trimmed weight — Sky Sports reported him speaking in 2024 of losing 18 pounds in 24 days before the previous year’s PGA Championship — and the listed weight in 2026 sources now sits between 220 lb (Wikipedia, bet365) and 235 lb (TotalShape, SurpriseSports). The honest figure is that range, not a single number.

First Major At 27: Winged Foot, 2020, Won By Six

DeChambeau won his first major at the 2020 U.S. Open at Winged Foot, played in September after the pandemic rescheduled the championship, with no fans on site. He was 27. He finished at 6-under 274 and won by six shots. He was the only player in the field to finish under par. The statistics tell the story of the method: he found only 23 of 56 fairways all week and won anyway, driving as far as he could and trusting wedge shots from the rough onto firm greens over the cautious play the course usually demands.

The win also completed a rare treble. With the U.S. Open added to his NCAA title and U.S. Amateur title, he became the third player in history to win all three, after Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods, per Wikipedia. He was 27 years and four days old when the final round ended. The trophy came with a reputation problem he would spend years softening: the bulk, the science talk, and the slow-play complaints had made him one of golf’s most argued-about figures, and the empty grandstands at Winged Foot meant his first major celebration had no crowd in it at all.

Second Major At 30: Pinehurst, 2024, Won By One

The second major could not have been more different. At Pinehurst No. 2 on June 16, 2024, DeChambeau, aged 30, shot a closing 71 to finish at 6-under 274 — the same total as Winged Foot — and beat Rory McIlroy by one stroke. McIlroy had led by two shots with five holes to play, then bogeyed three of his last four holes, missing short par putts on the 16th and 18th. DeChambeau’s own finish was the shot of the year: after driving left on the 72nd hole and punching out from behind a tree root into a greenside bunker, he played a 55-yard bunker shot to four feet and sank the par putt for the win. Golf Digest called it the only par save from that front bunker all week.

The $4.3 million first prize was, per Golf Digest, a record for the championship. The crowd was the other half of the story: where Winged Foot had been silent, Pinehurst cheered him at every tee and green, and Golf Digest described a 30-year-old “far more popular and engaging” than the 27-year-old who had won in the pandemic year. The win made him the 23rd player to win multiple U.S. Opens, and it gave him exemptions into the next ten U.S. Opens and the next five editions of each of the other three majors, per the PGA Tour. He was 30, a two-time national champion, and the most popular American golfer outside the PGA Tour’s own ranks — because, by then, he was no longer on the PGA Tour at all.

LIV Golf At 28: The Move, The Captaincy, And The 2023 Team Title

DeChambeau joined LIV Golf in June 2022, aged 28, and debuted at the league’s second event, in Portland, as captain of Crushers GC, per LIV Golf’s own history of the team. He had been linked with the breakaway league for months, and the announcement surprised some observers because he had previously pledged his future to the PGA Tour. At Bedminster, the next event, he added Paul Casey and Charles Howell III to the Crushers lineup; at Boston, he added Anirban Lahiri. That four-man group stayed together for 18 tournaments and collected ten podium finishes, per LIV Golf.

The team results followed. The Crushers finished second in the regular-season points list in the inaugural 2022 season, then won the Team Championship in Miami in October 2023, beating RangeGoats GC by two strokes, with DeChambeau shooting a final-day 67. The $14 million team purse from that Miami win was, per EssentiallySports, the largest team payout of the event. Individually, LIV Golf’s profile credits him with five LIV titles, and JBSA Golf (September 2026) lists nine PGA Tour wins, five LIV wins, and one DP World Tour win — 15 worldwide victories in total. The move cost him world-ranking points: LIV events did not carry Official World Golf Ranking points for most of his time there, and by the time he spoke about it in 2026 he had fallen outside the ranking’s top 200, a drop he publicly dismissed, saying the ranking was not accurate.

November 2026: The Podcast, LIV 2.0, And The Honest Hour

The freshest material in this profile comes from the first days of November 2026. DeChambeau appeared on Raj Shamani’s “Figuring Out” podcast in an episode released about 24 hours after LIV Golf’s October 30 deadline for players to commit to the league’s next chapter, per GolfMagic (October 31, 2026) and ZireGolf (November 2, 2026). He was 33, weeks past his birthday, and he spoke for two and a half hours. GOLF.com’s November 1, 2026 takeaways pull out seven points; three of them matter most for an age profile, because they show what 33 looks like for him.

On LIV Golf’s future, he backed the proposed LIV 2.0, saying it was “going to be done right.” The context is stark: LIV Golf filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in New Jersey on September 8, 2026, with court documents estimating liabilities between $500 million and $1 billion, per GolfMagic, after the Saudi Public Investment Fund — which had invested more than $5 billion since the league launched in June 2022 — pulled its funding in April 2026, per Realtor.com. The proposed new league is expected to launch in early 2027 with backing from BC Partners Credit. DeChambeau also gave rare team numbers: Crushers GC earned almost $29 million in revenue last year against about $21 million in costs, leaving roughly $8 million in EBITDA, per GolfMagic and Tennis World USA. His own LIV contract, signed in 2022, was reported to expire at the end of 2026, per Realtor.com, and several former teammates — including Jon Rahm, Sergio Garcia, and his own Crushers teammate Charles Howell III — had already confirmed their exits, per GolfMagic.

On his personal life, he was frank in a way he rarely is. Asked about loneliness after the 2024 U.S. Open, he said, as quoted by GOLF.com: “I don’t have a family. I don’t have kids. I don’t have a wife.” He described winning the trophy, celebrating with friends, going to bed, and waking up alone to the thought: “I won the U.S. Open and then right after, you say, what do I do next.” He also said he had felt depressed at several points — early in his professional career, again in 2019, and again at the end of 2021 and the start of 2022 — and that he had been “pulled out numerous times” by people who cared about him. This article reports those remarks as his own words in that interview, not as a diagnosis, and it does not speculate beyond them. The same interview covered his father, and that part of his story belongs in its own section.

Family And Personal Life: A Father Lost, A Relationship Confirmed

Jon DeChambeau died on November 4, 2022, aged 63, after years of serious illness, per GolfMagic and EssentiallySports. He had lived with diabetes since the early 1990s, received a kidney transplant from a high-school friend that extended his life by about a decade, and by 2022 needed dialysis; his final weeks included a series of mini-strokes and a coma, per The Fresno Bee as quoted by EssentiallySports in November 2026. Bryson announced the death on social media the following day, writing that he was sad to see his father go but glad his suffering was over, and thanking him for being an amazing father.

On the November 2026 podcast, DeChambeau described a complicated relationship — arguments, struggle, deep love — and said he had made his peace with his father, telling Shamani he forgave him and offering the same advice to listeners: “To anybody holding grudges, just forgive them. Who cares? You have one life.” The grief also frames the 2024 Pinehurst win for him: he has connected that final bunker shot to childhood practice sessions with his father watching. He remains close to his mother, Janet, and his younger years in Clovis are the part of his biography he returns to most often in interviews.

On relationships, the confirmed record is short. DeChambeau is unmarried and has no children — his own words on the November 2026 podcast. His relationship with Mikayla Demaiter, a Canadian model and influencer and former ice hockey goaltender, was confirmed by Us Weekly on August 19, 2026, when the outlet reported the relationship was “fairly new” and that the pair were “very happy,” per TV Insider (October 18, 2026) and IB Times Singapore. Their most visible public appearance together came at the LIV Golf Indianapolis finale on August 23, 2026, where they were filmed leaving the course together, per EssentiallySports and IB Times. Demaiter turned 26 in May 2026, seven years younger than DeChambeau. Earlier names linked to him in gossip coverage — Sophia Phalen Bertolami, Hunter Nugent, Lillia Schneider — were never confirmed as current relationships, and this article does not present them as such. No wedding, no engagement, and no children are on the public record.

His Age At Every Milestone: The Timeline In One Table

Readers searching an age question usually want one more thing: how old was he when the famous thing happened? The table below works it out from the September 16, 1993 birth date, so every age here can be checked with a calendar rather than trusted to a profile page.

The pattern in that table is the argument of his career. The amateur peak came at 21, the professional peak years ran from 27 to 30, and the LIV move at 28 split his career in two: nine PGA Tour wins before it, five LIV individual titles and a team championship after it. At 33, with the 2026 LIV season over and a new league structure still unconfirmed, he is between chapters rather than at the end of one.

Height And Weight: 6 Ft 1 In, And A Weight Range, Not A Number

DeChambeau’s height is one of the few facts in this profile with no real dispute: 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m), listed by Wikipedia, by bet365’s May 2026 profile, and by his SMU roster page, which gives 6-1. One low-quality profile page prints “1.83 m” beside “6 feet 1 inch,” which is a conversion typo — 6 ft 1 in converts to 1.85 m — and this article treats it as such. No credible source found in this research lists him at 6 ft 0 in.

Weight is different, because his body changed so much across his career that every listing captures a different year. Wikipedia and bet365 list 220 lb (100 kg). TotalShape (updated July 30, 2026) and SurpriseSports (July 2026) list 235 lb. Who’sDatedWho lists 190 lb, an outlier that matches no other source and is set aside here. The sensible statement is a range: listed between 220 lb and 235 lb in 2026 sources, after a peak near 240 lb in the summer of 2020 and a playing weight near 200 lb in his early professional years. Anyone quoting a single weight without a date is quoting a snapshot, not a fact.

Money In Brief: Earnings Context For An Age Article

This is an age article, so no net worth figure is anchored as a headline here — but readers ask, and the honest context is a range, not a point. Forbes, via GolfMagic (May 24, 2026), put his net worth at approximately $55 million; SurpriseSports’ July 2026 page gives the same ~$55 million; Realtor.com’s May 2026 piece cites a Forbes estimate of around $44 million. Other trackers run higher, up to $80–90 million, but those rest on weaker sourcing, so this article publishes the $44 million–$55 million Forbes-anchored context range and labels every figure in it an estimate.

The earnings underneath it are better documented. JBSA Golf (September 2026) puts his official PGA Tour earnings above $37.2 million. GolfMagic (May 2026) puts his LIV Golf on-course earnings at $51,402,977 to that date. SurpriseSports (July 2026) reports $10.8 million banked through five events of the 2026 LIV season, including back-to-back wins in Singapore and South Africa worth $4 million each. The reported $125 million LIV signing package from 2022 — quoted by GolfMagic, SurpriseSports, and others — was never confirmed by DeChambeau or LIV Golf, so it stays labeled “reported” wherever it appears. His YouTube channel, where he plays matches and challenges with other creators, is now a real income line too: GOLF magazine has put his monthly advertising revenue at $66,000–$143,000, and one 2026 tracker estimates $800,000–$2 million a year from YouTube ads alone. Those are estimates, and the article treats them as such.

What Comes Next At 33: LIV 2.0, A Contract, And The Majors

Three questions will define DeChambeau’s 34th year. The first is LIV 2.0: whether the restructured league launches in early 2027 as GolfMagic reports, who funds it, and whether DeChambeau signs on as a captain again. His October 30, 2026 commitment deadline has passed, and his public backing on the Shamani podcast points one way, but no signed deal was on the public record at the time of writing. The second is his own contract, reported to have expired at the end of 2026 — the outcome of that negotiation decides whether he stays a team captain or becomes a free agent in a golf world that has changed completely since he left the PGA Tour in 2022.

The third question is the majors, which need no league at all. His Pinehurst win gives him exemptions into the next ten U.S. Opens, and the other three majors take him for five years from 2024, so the 2027 major season is open to him whatever happens with LIV. He finished tied for fifth at the 2025 Masters, per Wikipedia’s major results, and his 2024 season — tied sixth at Augusta, runner-up at the PGA Championship by one shot to Xander Schauffele, winner at Pinehurst — showed he can still contend in all four. At 33, with two majors and a game built on distance that ages better than most, the next chapter is unwritten, but the exemptions mean it will be played on the biggest stages regardless of the league politics around it.

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Sources & Reporting

This article was researched on 4 November 2026 from live reporting: Wikipedia’s Bryson DeChambeau page for the birth date and place, the 6 ft 1 in height, the 220 lb weight, the No. 4 peak ranking (May 9, 2021), the nine PGA Tour wins, and the 2015–2017 career dates; SMU Athletics for the 2015 NCAA title (280, −8, one stroke over Cheng-Tsung Pan), the U.S. Amateur final (7 & 6 over Derek Bard), and the fifth-player double; bet365 News (May 27, 2026) for the profile table and height/weight listings; JBSA Golf (updated September 17, 2026) for the ESPN birth data, the nine PGA Tour wins, five LIV titles, and $37.2 million-plus PGA Tour earnings; National Club Golfer (March 2026) for the profile baseline; GlamHomeGuide (October 2026) for the post-birthday age of 33; the PGA Tour (June 2024) and Golf Digest (June 16, 2024) for both U.S. Open wins, scores, margins, and the $4.3 million Pinehurst prize; LIV Golf’s own team history (January 25, 2024) and Golf Monthly for the Crushers GC captaincy, lineup, and 2023 Team Championship; GolfMagic (October 31, 2026), GOLF.com (November 1, 2026), Tennis World USA (November 1, 2026), and ZireGolf (November 2, 2026) for the Raj Shamani podcast, the LIV 2.0 comments, the loneliness and depression remarks, the Crushers GC revenue figures, and the bankruptcy dates; GolfMagic (May 24, 2026), SurpriseSports (July 2026), Forbes via Realtor.com (May 2026), and GOLF magazine for the earnings context; TV Insider (October 18, 2026), IB Times Singapore, National Club Golfer (updated September 4, 2026), and EssentiallySports for the Mikayla Demaiter relationship confirmation; GolfMagic and EssentiallySports (September 2025 and November 2026) and The Fresno Bee via EssentiallySports for Jon DeChambeau’s death on November 4, 2022, aged 63; Golf Digest Middle East, The Net Return, and Sky Sports for the single-length irons, the bulk-up, and the weight history; and TotalShape (July 30, 2026) for the 235 lb listing. Where sources disagreed — weight, and the size of his fortune — the article names the disagreement instead of picking a number silently. Corrections are welcome via the About page.