DeChambeau wasn’t kidding about putting side-saddle

Bryson DeChambeau told Golf Digest’s Tim Rosaforte in October he was working on a side-saddle putting stroke.

DeChambeau is playing in this week’s Franklin Templeton Shootout, and on Tuesday, the PGA Tour shared video of him preparing for the event by putting side-saddle.

After news of DeChambeau’s potential putting change broke, Golf Digest did a Facebook Live video with former USGA executive director David Fay, who happens to use a variation of the method himself.

Fay walked us through how to side-saddle and the advantages he thinks the method brings, especially for people looking for something new after the anchoring ban went into effect at the beginning of 2016.

It appears DeChambeau — like Fay — straddles the line, but only when he’s lining up the putt, which is legal.