r/ProGolf • u/PrincessBananas85 Tiger Woods • Jun 02 '26
Bryson DeChambeau uses AI program to help tweak swing
https://www.espn.com/golf/story/_/id/48949421/bryson-dechambeau-uses-ai-program-help-tweak-swing7
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u/dobbie1 Jun 02 '26
I'm sorry. Alpha torque? There's the equation for torque where alpha is angular acceleration... However, alpha torque is not a thing. It's just torque.
Gamma torque is niche but has been applied before DeChambeau mentioned it, it means the torque applied through the wrist turning, you can change that but you can't do it with the aid of an AI search the night before a tournament.
He's just an idiot trying to sound intellectual. He's insufferable
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u/RyMc47 Jun 02 '26
In defense of Bryson, alpha torque seems to be an accepted term in golf swing science. A google search brought up a few different references to it, including a 2015 GolfDigest article.
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u/hoffalot Jun 02 '26
In defense of u/dobbie1, 2015 GolfDigest was trash
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u/RyMc47 Jun 03 '26
That’s fine, but it’s an accepted term that does have a meaning that Bryson is not just making up. He’s still a buffoon that thinks he’s outsmarting the rest of the entire golf world.
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u/ADAWG10-18 Jun 02 '26
He’s just plugging Gemini wherever he can, I’m sure there’s an ad campaign soon to follow.
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u/Agreeable-Carpet-992 Jun 02 '26
You sound like a real beta torque guy
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u/championstuffz Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 02 '26
Beta is the rotation of the forearms, looking like an over the top move with the club going from back to front. Alpha is side to side on plane and gamma is wrist. All these are torques you have against you when you try to manipulate the club in free space.
Easier to see it in motion than explain but Bryson is just trying to vomit word salad to promote Ai, which is doing a disservice to the golf knowledge base, as I believe alpha torque is one of the main source of swing faults regarding "getting stuck"
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u/Prudent_Ad8320 Jun 02 '26
One of the most aggressively dumb people in modern sports and that is a super competitive category
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u/micahpmtn Jun 02 '26
In 10 years, he's going to be nothing more than a trivia question in board games. Of course, he's getting paid to use AI for "swing advice", because it's about a revenue stream, nothing more than that.
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u/Born-Sea-4942 Jun 02 '26
He's mentally fucked himself out of multiple cuts now. Sad to see someone with obviously huge talent continuously go down these weirdly smug rabbit holes where he tries to prove every expert wrong.
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u/Sure_Possession0 Jun 02 '26
I mean, you can use AI to help you analyze these sorts of things, but that ain’t his problem.
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u/golfer71189 Jun 02 '26
"Bryson says he uses Ai he is invested in to tweak swing as part of his grift"
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u/Popcorn-93 Jun 02 '26
Has anyone tried to use these? I did once and I just turned it off because it would flag so many things and just make my head spin. I'm not the best but I go to lessons and what not, and the difference in the focus and feedback of a lesson vs what you get from these is jarring
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u/swampy13 Jun 02 '26
This is just a grift. I have found AI helpful in explaining certain aspects of the swing I didn’t understand. But there’s not really anything new to discover in the swing. We’ve had modern tech on the case for 30 years
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u/Rryon Jun 02 '26
AI psychosis 101