The New York Times - USA (2020-11-09)

B10 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2020

SCOREBOARD

ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE Team GP W D L GF GA Pts Leicester ......8 6 0 2 18 9 18 Tottenham .....8 5 2 1 19 9 17 Liverpool ......8 5 2 1 18 16 17 Southampton... 8 5 1 2 16 12 16 Chelsea ......8 4 3 1 20 10 15 Aston Villa .....7 5 0 2 18 9 15 Everton .......8 4 1 3 16 14 13 Crystal Palace.. 8 4 1 3 12 12 13 Wolverhampton. 8 4 1 3 8 9 13 Man City ......7 3 3 1 10 9 12 Arsenal .......8 4 0 4 9 10 12 West Ham .....8 3 2 3 14 10 11 Newcastle .....8 3 2 3 10 13 11 Man United.... 7 3 1 3 12 14 10 Leeds........ 8 3 1 4 14 17 10 Brighton ......8 1 3 4 11 14 6 Fulham .......8 1 1 6 7 15 4 West Brom.... 8 0 3 5 6 17 3 Burnley .......7 0 2 5 3 12 2 Sheffield United. 8 0 1 7 4 14 1 Saturday, Nov. 7 Everton 1, Man United 3 Crystal Palace 4, Leeds 1 Chelsea 4, Sheffield United 1 West Ham 1, Fulham 0 Sunday, Nov. 8 West Brom 0, Tottenham 1 Leicester 1, Wolverhampton 0 Man City 1, Liverpool 1 Arsenal 0, Aston Villa 3

SOCCER

M.L.S. STANDINGS EAST W L T Pts GF GA x-Philadelphia.. 14 4 5 47 44 20 x-Toronto FC.. 13 5 5 44 33 26 x-Columbus... 12 6 5 41 36 21 x-Orlando City. 11 4 8 41 40 25 x-N.Y.C.F.C.... 12 8 3 39 37 25 x-Red Bulls.... 9 9 5 32 29 31 x-Nashville .....8 7 8 32 24 22 x-New England.. 8 7 8 32 26 25 Montreal ......8 13 2 26 33 43 Inter Miami CF.. 7 13 3 24 25 35 Chicago ......5 10 8 23 33 39 Atlanta .......6 13 4 22 23 30 D.C. United.... 5 12 6 21 25 41 Cincinnati .....4 15 4 16 12 36 WEST W L T Pts GF GA x-Portland ....11 6 5 38 45 34 x-Kansas City. 11 6 3 36 36 25 x-Seattle .....10 5 6 36 40 22 x-FC Dallas.... 9 5 7 34 28 21 x-Los Angeles FC 9 8 4 31 46 38 x-Minnesota.... 8 5 7 31 33 26 x-San Jose.... 8 8 6 30 34 47 x-Colorado..... 7 6 4 25 30 27 Vancouver .....8 14 0 24 24 44 LA Galaxy .....6 11 4 22 27 43 Real Salt Lake.. 5 9 7 22 25 33 Houston ......4 9 9 21 29 38 x-clinched playoff berth Wednesday, Nov. 4 Orlando City 2, Columbus 1 Chicago 2, Minnesota 2, tie FC Dallas 1, Nashville 0 Colorado 1, Portland 0 Seattle 1, LA Galaxy 1, tie San Jose 3, Los Angeles FC 2 Sunday, Nov. 8 N.Y.C.F.C. 4, Chicago 3 Red Bulls 2, Toronto FC 1 Columbus 2, Atlanta 1 Montreal 3, D.C. United 2 Miami 2, Cincinnati 1 Nashville 3, Orlando City 2 Philadelphia 2, New England 0 Colorado at Houston Portland at Los Angeles FC FC Dallas at Minnesota Kansas City at Real Salt Lake San Jose at Seattle LA Galaxy at Vancouver End of regular season

TENNIS

PARIS MASTERS At Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy Paris Men's Singles Championship Daniil Medvedev (3), Russia, d. Alexander Zverev (4), Germany, 5-7, 6-4, 6-1. Men's Doubles Championship Hubert Hurkacz, Poland, and Felix Auger-Aliassime, Canada, d. Bruno Soares, Brazil, and Mate Pavic (2), Croatia, 6-7 (3), 7-6 (7), 10-2.

FOOTBALL

N.F.L. STANDINGS

AMERICAN CONFERENCE

East W L T Pct PF PA Buffalo 7 2 0 .778 242 233 Miami 5 3 0 .625 222 161 N. England 2 5 0 .286 136 167 Jets 0 8 0 .000 94 238 South W L T Pct PF PA Tennessee 6 2 0 .750 232 201 Indianapolis 5 3 0 .625 208 160 Houston 2 6 0 .250 193 242 Jacksonville 1 7 0 .125 179 247 North W L T Pct PF PA Pittsburgh 8 0 0 1.000 235 161 Baltimore 6 2 0 .750 227 142 Cleveland 5 3 0 .625 206 237 Cincinnati 2 5 1 .313 194 214 West W L T Pct PF PA Kansas City 8 1 0 .889 286 183 Las Vegas 5 3 0 .625 218 229 Denver 3 5 0 .375 174 217 L.A. Chargers 2 6 0 .250 205 216

NATIONAL CONFERENCE

East W L T Pct PF PA Phila. 3 4 1 .438 186 205 Washington 2 6 0 .250 153 188 Dallas 2 7 0 .222 204 290 Giants 2 7 0 .222 168 219 South W L T Pct PF PA Tampa Bay 6 2 0 .750 247 165 New Orleans 5 2 0 .714 206 197 Atlanta 3 6 0 .333 243 251 Carolina 3 6 0 .333 210 226 North W L T Pct PF PA Green Bay 6 2 0 .750 253 204 Chicago 5 4 0 .556 178 190 Detroit 3 5 0 .375 197 240 Minnesota 3 5 0 .375 217 234 West W L T Pct PF PA Seattle 6 2 0 .750 274 243 Arizona 5 3 0 .625 234 180 L.A. Rams 5 3 0 .625 193 152 San Fran. 4 5 0 .444 225 207 THURSDAY Green Bay 34, San Francisco 17 SUNDAY Giants 23, Washington 20 Atlanta 34, Denver 27 Baltimore 24, Indianapolis 10 Buffalo 44, Seattle 34 Houston 27, Jacksonville 25 Kansas City 33, Carolina 31 Minnesota 34, Detroit 20 Tennessee 24, Chicago 17 Las Vegas 31, L.A. Chargers 26 Miami 34, Arizona 31 Pittsburgh 24, Dallas 19 New Orleans at Tampa Bay Open: Cincinnati, Cleveland, L.A. Rams, Philadelphia MONDAY New England at Jets, 8:15 THURSDAY, NOV. 12 Indianapolis at Tennessee, 8:20

SOFIA OPEN At Arena Armeec Sofia Sofia, Bulgaria Men's Singles Qualification Taro Daniel (4), Japan, d. Martin Klizan (7), Slovakia, 6-3, 6-4. Gilles Simon (1), France, d. Illya Marchenko, Ukraine, 6-2, 6-3. Viktor Troicki, Serbia, d. Fabrizio Ornago, Italy, 6-2, 6-4. Aslan Karatsev (3), Russia, d. Marc- Andrea Huesler (8), Switzerland, 7-6 (2), 6-4. Men's Singles Round of 32 John Millman (6), Australia, d. Adrian Andreev, Bulgaria, 6-3, 6-1. Radu Albot, Moldova, d. Yuichi Sugita, Japan, 6-4, 6-1.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

A.P. TOP 25 POLL The top 25 teams in the Associated Press college football poll, with first- place votes in parentheses, records through Nov. 7, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote, and previous ranking: Record Pts Pvs

Alabama (59) ......6-0 1,547 2

Notre Dame (2) .....7-0 1,464 4

Ohio St. (1) ........3-0 1,449 3

Clemson .........7-1 1,355 1

Texas A&M ........5-1 1,223 7

Florida ...........4-1 1,213 8

Cincinnati .........6-0 1,208 6

BYU ............8-0 1,101 9

Miami ...........6-1 958 11

Indiana ..........3-0 956 13

Oregon ..........1-0 948 12

Georgia ..........4-2 861 5

Wisconsin........ .1-0 852 10

Oklahoma St. ......5-1 762 14

Coastal Carolina... .7-0 551 15

Marshall ..........6-0 534 16

Iowa St. ..........5-2 491 17

Oklahoma ........5-2 467 19

SMU ............7-1 456 18

Southern Cal ......1-0 395 20

Texas ...........5-2 265 22

Liberty ...........7-0 260 25

Northwestern ......3-0 250 -

Auburn ..........4-2 184 24

Louisiana-Lafayette.. .6-1 118 -
Others receiving votes: North Carolina 85,
Army 54, Tulsa 47, Utah 33, Washington 21,
Arizona St. 11, Purdue 8, Wake Forest 6,
Boise St. 5, Appalachian St. 5, California 3,
Maryland 3, Nevada 1.

GOLF

HOUSTON OPEN At Memorial Park Golf Course Houston, Texas Purse: $7 million Yardage: 7,432; Par: 72 Final Round C. Ortiz $1,260,000 .... 67-68-67-65—267 D. Johnson $623,000... 72-66-66-65—269 H. Matsuyama $623,000. 70-70-66-63—269 T. Gooch $343,000 .... 68-69-71-63—271 B. Koepka $270,375... 72-70-65-65—272 S. Straka $270,375 .... 68-69-66-69—272 S. Burns $212,625 ..... 68-65-68-72—273 J. Day $212,625 ...... 67-68-67-71—273 T. Hatton $212,625 .... 71-70-67-65—273 M. Hughes $212,625... 70-72-68-63—273 P. Kizzire $155,750 .... 69-67-70-68—274 A. Long $155,750 ..... 68-70-69-67—274 S. Lowry $155,750 .... 69-69-68-68—274 A. Wise $155,750 ..... 70-66-69-69—274 V. Hovland $113,750... 70-69-68-68—275 R. Knox $113,750 ..... 69-71-67-68—275 F. Molinari $113,750... 70-68-71-66—275 M. Thompson $113,750. 67-72-67-69—275 H. Varner III $113,750.. 67-71-72-65—275 M. McNealy $82,600... 71-71-67-67—276 J. T. Poston $82,600... 70-67-70-69—276 D. van der Walt, $82,600 70-66-69-71—276 E. van Rooyen $82,600. 71-69-69-67—276 S. Brown $58,450 ..... 69-68-72-68—277 C. Conners $58,450 .... 69-67-73-68—277 A. Cook $58,450 ...... 71-72-68-66—277 T. Finau $58,450 ...... 69-69-68-71—277 B. Harman $58,450 .... 71-69-72-65—277 R. Henley $47,950 ..... 69-72-69-68—278 C. Hoffman $47,950... 71-69-71-67—278 C. Tringale $47,950 .... 70-70-69-69—278 P. Harrington $39,083.. 71-68-71-69—279 S. Piercy $39,083 ..... 68-74-69-68—279 T. Merritt $39,083 ..... 74-68-69-68—279 S. Scheffler $39,083... 67-75-72-65—279 A. Scott $39,083 ...... 68-69-74-68—279 E. Barnes, $29,750 .... 71-72-73-64—280 W. Gordon $29,750 .... 76-67-65-72—280 J. Harding, $29,750 .... 72-68-72-68—280 S. Kodaira $29,750 .... 70-69-72-69—280 N. Lashley $29,750 .... 73-68-69-70—280 D. McCarthy $29,750... 69-72-69-70—280 C. Kirk $22,750....... 73-68-74-66—281 G. McDowell $22,750... 69-73-69-70—281 B. Snedeker $22,750... 65-71-76-69—281 J. Vegas $22,750 ..... 73-70-68-70—281 M. Homa $19,040 ..... 74-68-69-71—282 J. Huh $19,040 ....... 73-69-69-71—282 G. Chalmers $16,888... 68-73-72-70—283 B. Garnett $16,888 .... 74-68-72-69—283 J. Hahn $16,888 ...... 71-71-73-68—283 M. Hubbard $16,888... 69-71-72-71—283 S. Im $16,888........ 74-69-73-67—283 Z. Johnson $16,888 .... 73-70-69-71—283 I. Salinda, $16,888..... 71-69-75-68—283 B. Stuard $16,888 ..... 73-69-69-72—283 L. Griffin $15,890 ..... 72-71-71-70—284 K. Hickok $15,890 ..... 75-68-68-73—284 C. T. Pan $15,890 ..... 72-69-73-70—284 K. Chappell $15,540... 70-71-72-72—285 D. Redman $15,540 .... 71-70-73-71—285 M. Jones $15,330 ..... 69-72-77-68—286 J. Lovemark $15,120... 73-69-70-75—287 K. Ventura $15,120 .... 69-69-76-73—287 S. Harrington $14,840.. 70-72-74-73—289 S. O'Hair $14,840 ..... 71-69-75-74—289 C. Davis $14,630 ..... 67-76-77-75—295 CYPRUS SHOWDOWN At Aphrodite Hills Resort Paphos, Cyprus Purse: $1.2 million Yardage: 6,878; Par: 71 Final Round J. Veerman, United States 67-64-64-67—262 -22 R. Macintyre, Scotland... 65-68-67-64—264 -20 M. Kawamura, Japan.... 67-67-66-65—265 -19 J. Campillo, Spain.......69-62-68-66—265 -19 C. Shinkwin, England.... 68-65-66-67—266 -18 A. Levy, France ........67-66-66-68—267 -17 T. Detry, Belgium.......66-66-68-67—267 -17 S. Brown, England......68-64-67-69—268 -16 J. Morrison, England.....68-63-66-71—268 -16 L. De Jager, South Africa. 68-65-66-69—268 -16 B. Ritthammer, Germany.. 70-65-65-69—269 -15 M. Jordan, England .....68-68-64-69—269 -15 J. Donaldson, Wales.....66-64-64-75—269 -14 N. Lemke, Sweden......70-66-66-69—271 -13 S. Valimaki, Finland......66-66-67-73—272 -12 M. Armitage, England.... 68-68-66-70—272 -12 G. Green, Malaysia......70-66-68-68—272 -12 J. Caldwell, Northern Ireland 72-64-67-72—275 -9 R. Bland, England ......69-67-68-72—276 -8

TRANSACTIONS

FOOTBALL N.F.L. CHICAGO BEARS — Placed OL Lachavious Simmons on the reserve/ COVID-19 list. Placed OL Aaron Neary on the active roster. CLEVELAND BROWNS — Placed QB Baker Mayfield on the reserve/COVID-19 list.

FEDEX CUP LEADERS Points Money

Bryson DeChambeau 675 $2,440,750

Stewart Cink ......671 $1,494,130

Patrick Cantlay.....604 $1,710,585

Jason Kokrak......596 $2,008,789

Matthew Wolff .....585 $2,007,135

Sergio Garcia......548 $1,301,621

Martin Laird.......532 $1,314,640

Hudson Swafford... 510 $743,834

Brian Gay ........500 $720,000

Xander Schauffele.. 463 $1,651,851

Peter Malnati .....450 $1,033,222

Justin Thomas.... 386 $1,196,556

Tyler McCumber... 383 $637,300

Wyndham Clark.... 358 $575,475

Harry Higgs......344 $827,836

Jon Rahm .......332 $944,832

Russell Henley.... 299 $928,450

Doc Redman .....271 $528,363

AUTO RACING

SEASON FINALE 500 At Phoenix Raceway Avondale, Ariz. Lap length: 1.00 miles (Start position in parentheses)

(1) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, 312 laps,
40 points.

(3) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 312, 35.

(2) Joey Logano, Ford, 312, 34.

(4) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 312, 33.

(26) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 312,

(5) Ryan Blaney, Ford, 312, 43.

(11) Kevin Harvick, Ford, 312, 30.

(12) Matt DiBenedetto, Ford, 312, 32.

(25) William Byron, Chevrolet, 312, 29.

(13) Martin Truex Jr, Toyota, 312, 27.

(8) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 312, 34.

(7) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 312, 31.

(10) Aric Almirola, Ford, 311, 24.

(9) Clint Bowyer, Ford, 311, 26.

(23) Bubba Wallace, Chevrolet, 311,

(6) Alex Bowman, Chevrolet, 311, 25.

(17) Christopher Bell, Toyota, 311, 20.

(18) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 311, 19.

(21) Tyler Reddick, Chevrolet, 311, 18.

(31) Chris Buescher, Ford, 311, 17.

(22) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet, 311, 16.

(14) Erik Jones, Toyota, 311, 15.

(29) Michael McDowell, Ford, 311, 14.

(19) Ryan Newman, Ford, 311, 13.

(16) Matt Kenseth, Chevrolet, 311, 12.

(27) John H. Nemechek, Ford, 311, 11.

(20) Ricky Stenhouse Jr, Chevrolet,
310, 10.

(15) Cole Custer, Ford, 310, 9.

(35) Brennan Poole, Chevrolet, 309, 8.

(32) JJ Yeley, Chevrolet, 306, 0.

(30) Daniel Suarez, Toyota, 306, 6.

(37) Joey Gase, Ford, 302, 0.

(36) James Davison, Ford, 302, 4.

(24) Ryan Preece, Chevrolet, 299, 3.

(38) Josh Bilicki, Chevrolet, 296, 0.

(33) Timmy Hill, Toyota, 288, 0.

(39) Garrett Smithley, Chevrolet,
garage, 261, 0.

(28) Corey Lajoie, Ford, suspension,
215, 1.

(34) Quin Houff, Chevrolet, handling,
149, 1.

He repeatedly talks about reshap-
ing golf ideology and smashing
drives “as far as I possibly can.”
It is a quest that consumes him
even as he should be basking in his
greatest accomplishments. For ex-
ample, DeChambeau, who rarely
drinks alcohol, stayed up fairly late
after his Open victory at Winged
Foot Golf Club outside New York
City in September. Early the next
morning, however, he was on a jet
to Denver, where that afternoon he
went through an intensive two-
hour workout with Greg Roskopf,
whom DeChambeau calls his “mus-
cle specialist.”
“He brought his trophy, which
was fun, but we also had another
two-hour session the next day,”
Roskopf said in a telephone inter-
view late last month. “Bryson was
already saying, ‘I want to get ev-
erything I can out of my body for
the Masters.’ ”
Roskopf, a 57-year-old former
strength and conditioning coach at
Fresno State, near where DeCham-
beau was raised, worked for many
years as a performance and injury-
prevention expert on the staffs of
the Denver Broncos and the Utah
Jazz. About seven years ago, Mike
Schy, who coached the teenage
DeChambeau and played at Fresno
State, sent DeChambeau to
Roskopf because DeChambeau
was experiencing some lower back
pain.
It was in Roskopf’s gymlike lab-
oratory in Englewood, Colo., that
DeChambeau — who majored in
physics at Southern Methodist Uni-
versity and whose nickname
among his peers is “the mad scien-
tist” — began to transform himself
last year into the longest, most ef-
fective driver of the ball on the tour.
Roskopf put DeChambeau
through what he calls a neuromus-
cular overhaul, a program he de-
scribes as muscle activation tech-
niques intended to correct body im-

balances that inhibit, among other things, range of motion. The sys- tem is also meant to build higher tolerance levels for exercises that can increase strength. When not visiting Roskopf every three weeks, DeChambeau works out daily at his home in Dallas, where he has installed each piece of Roskopf’s specialized equipment in his garage. DeChambeau eschews many traditional weight lifting exercises like squats or dead lifts to focus instead on isolated muscle groups that govern side bend, back extension and trunk and leg flex. He also started consuming 5,000 to 6,000 calories a day, aided by drinking seven protein shakes made by Orgain, one of his many sponsors. How much strength has DeChambeau gained? On some exercises, Roskopf said, his pupil more than doubled his weight load. “I’ve been in pro sports for 30 years, and some of his gains are kind of astounding, just dramatic,” Roskopf said. “With some of these movements, we’ve run out of more weights to add.” Talk like that will naturally lead to suspicion of steroid use, and ear- lier this year, a small number of DeChambeau’s colleagues were privately leery of his prodigious weight gain. The doubts require some context, though, because many of the PGA Tour’s top players are smallish. Rory McIlroy weighs 160 pounds and Justin Thomas 145, so DeChambeau’s 6-foot-1, 240- pound linebacker-like physique stood out more than it might in the overall cohort of professional ath- letes. Roskopf conceded that whispers about performance-enhancing drugs were expected. “When you see changes like that, you think somebody’s taking steroids,” he said. “But I can guarantee you he’s not taking steroids. I know it raises eyebrows, but we actually take it as a compliment, because it’s proof that the process works. And Bryson is like, ‘They can test me anytime.’ ” DeChambeau, like all tour mem- bers, is regularly tested for per-

formance-enhancing drugs. With few exceptions, his tour contemporaries have been gener- ous in their praise of his accomplishments over the past year, which include two victories and eight other top-10 finishes. “What Bryson has done is no easy task,” Woods said. “He’s hitting it further; he’s figured it out. But let’s look at the fact that he’s hitting it as straight as he is. That’s the most difficult thing to do.’’ DeChambeau, who has vaulted to sixth place in the world rankings, is something of a loner on the tour, and his methods have periodically prompted his fellow pros to roll their eyes. (In July, he wanted to be able to move his golf ball because of nearby fire ants no one else had ob- served.) But his competitors also see DeChambeau tirelessly hitting practice shots after a round, until darkness obscures the ball’s path. At home in Dallas, he might go weeks without playing the game, because he finds casual golf ineffi- cient. Why take 70 random swings over 18 holes with golf partners when the same four hours can be spent pounding 300 balls on a range to get what DeChambeau truly craves: instant technological feedback on a shot’s ball and swing speed, its apex, spin rate, carry and distance? “You’ve got to recognize how much he’s elevated the discussion of golf fitness and the science of the game,” Phil Mickelson said. “But he’s been successful in a lot of the other areas you need to win at golf.” It is the other pivotal golf skills that will be most scrutinized this week at Augusta National, where daunting, undulating greens have historically been the chief chal- lenge. DeChambeau’s best finish at the Masters has been a tie for 21st, and an unreliable putting stroke has largely kept him off the leader- board in his three appearances. But this year, DeChambeau, who has improved his putting to the point where he ranked 10th last season in strokes gained/putting, intends to overpower the Augusta layout with 350-yard drives that could put considerably less stress on the rest of his game.

Where other golfers will be hitting 5-irons into greens, DeCham- beau expects to be hitting wedges. Can such a power-based onslaught succeed? “Absolutely, it can work,” the two- time Masters champion Bernhard Langer said. “Bryson will have to hit it reasonably straight, but he could have a tremendous advan- tage. “Take the 18th hole: If he can fly it over the bunkers from the tee, then he’s got a huge, 100-yard fair- way to land his ball in. Most of the guys will be aiming for the usual landing spot, which is 20 yards wide. If he hits it all the way down the hill on the 11th hole, he’s got pitching wedge to the green, while I’m hitting a two-hybrid. That’s a big difference.” Past champions who once ques- tioned whether DeChambeau’s strategy would be successful in ma- jor championship conditions — like those at Winged Foot in September — have changed their minds. “I got it wrong back at this year’s U.S. Open,” the three-time Masters winner Nick Faldo said. “We’ve al- ways said you can’t be a long-driving champ or train like one, because you’ve still got to chip and putt. Now with the science, they’ve found a way that you can. So this is amazing.” Which leads to the question of whether the distance breakthrough spearheaded by DeChambeau, who is just part of a phalanx of long- driving young golfers, is good or bad for golf. Faldo, who is a CBS golf analyst, wondered how much longer golf courses would need to become to accommodate pro and recreational golfers who learn to hit colossal drives. “It would cost a fortune to buy that much land and irrigate it, too — that’s impossible,” said Faldo, who speculated that the golf ball might have to be restricted or soft- ened to limit how it will fly. “Maybe the new golf ball will be a marshmallow,” he said, laughing. But others see DeChambeau as a godsend to the game, especially at a time when it needs an infusion of youth. Andy North, a two-time U.S. Open champion who is 70, called DeChambeau “cool.” “He’s proven there’s yet another way to play golf,” said North, now an ESPN golf commentator. “There’s a million ways to play this game and there’s no one perfect way to do it. And I think that’s really refreshing.” DeChambeau knows exactly where he stands on the issue. He draws the greatest satisfaction not from his achievements on the golf course, but in the aftermath of them, when young golfers ap- proach him and say they want to swing as hard as he does. “That really makes my day,” he said. “That why I’m not going to stop. I’m going to keep pushing the boundaries, keep questioning the limits.”

DeChambeau’s Revolution Is Set to Meet Augusta

From First Sports Page

With the Masters this week, Bryson DeChambeau says “Augusta

would be the right stage” to get younger golfers to hit longer.

HILARY SWIFT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

John Harbaugh’s paternal grand-
father, Bill, was an awful driver, and
as a tumultuous week dawned for
the Baltimore Ravens, the coach

felt compelled to share as much
with his players.
His grandfather, Harbaugh told
them, could not pull in or out of the
garage without scraping the paint
or battering the wood. When it was
gently mentioned that his car
lacked a rearview mirror, Bill
huffed an explanation: “I don’t
need to know where I’m coming
from. I need to know where I’m go-
ing.”
The Ravens’ convictions are
cloaked by a sort of blind faith, the
expectation that they can summon
a critical play, an efficient drive or a
dominant half of football when they
need to simply because they can —
because they know where they are
going. As their season teetered on
Sunday, the Ravens mustered all
three in a second-half reversal that
dazed the Indianapolis Colts.
For Baltimore, the result — a 24-
10 victory — mattered greatly. The
win, after a last-second loss to its
A.F.C. North rival Pittsburgh last
week, reasserted the Ravens’ pres-
ence as a contender in the rugged
conference and impeded the path of
the host Colts (5-3) in the playoff
chase. But from the Ravens’ per-
spective, how they managed to win
Sunday mattered just as much.
“They understood the gravity of
the win,” Harbaugh said. “They un-
derstood how tough that win was.”
It was tough because the Ravens
played without two starting offen-
sive linemen who were hurt last
week; the All-Pro cornerback Mar-
lon Humphrey, who tested positive
for the coronavirus last week; and
the Pro Bowl defensive end Calais

Campbell, who left early in the first quarter with a calf injury. It was tough because in the first half, the Colts stymied quarterback Lamar Jackson and the league’s most pro- ductive running offense as no other team had this season, holding Balti- more to 18 rushing yards. And it was tough because the Ravens, for all their offensive dynamism and defensive might, had lost 20 straight games when behind at halftime. When Baltimore (6-2) ran onto the field for the second half, after it had scored a defensive touchdown to trail, 10-7, it faced the fulcrum of its season: A second consecutive loss could have shoved the Ravens three games behind the Steelers in the division and reinforced the be- lief that Jackson beat only inferior teams, a notion propagated by the Ravens’ playoff loss to Tennessee last season and perpetuated by de- feats this year to Pittsburgh and to Kansas City. After a drive in which the Ravens fumbled on first-and-goal from the Colts’ 3, the game turned four minutes into the second half on an Indi-

anapolis pass that was initially ruled incomplete. But Harbaugh challenged the call, believing that cornerback Marcus Peters, who caught the ball while backpedaling, held on to it long enough to estab- lish possession before it was dis- lodged. The call was overturned — Peters was adjudged to have con- trolled it and taken three steps — and after regaining possession, Baltimore recalibrated. By picking up the tempo, the Ravens reduced the efficacy of In- dianapolis’s sideline-to-sideline speed. They scored touchdowns on consecutive drives, on a 1-yard run by Gus Edwards and a 9-yard keeper from Jackson on a series that had been extended by J. K. Dobbins’s 4-yard run on fourth- and-3 from the Indianapolis 43. “That’s a tough one to pull the trigger on,” Harbaugh said, but he trusted the play, and he trusted Jackson to make the proper read. The natural inclination is to pre- sume that a player like Jackson, after smashing records and bamboo- zling defenses and collecting awards, continues ascending at a

steady, deadly rate. That his off- season represented a tantalizing respite between M.V.P. seasons, and that in every game, he further redefines a position already bent to his will. Except that a player’s develop- ment is rarely linear. Quarterbacks, especially. Jackson remains as elu- sive as ever, but his passing profi- ciency has waned. Entering Sun- day, he had completed less than 60 percent of his throws in four of his previous five games, and he was coming off throwing two intercep- tions as part of a four-turnover day against Pittsburgh. Against the Colts, Jackson completed all 10 second-half passes — “just keeping it going,” he said — to finish 19 of 23 for 170 yards. He also ran for 58 yards, regrouping after a dismal first quarter, when Balti- more failed to net even a single rushing yard. In the second quarter, the Ravens completed a miser- able trifecta — stuffed run, sack, holding penalty — to encounter a third-and-35. The totality of the car- nage represented the Ravens’ worst offensive first-half showing since their playoff loss to Tennes- see. If not for Chuck Clark’s fumble return for a touchdown, Baltimore would not have scored at all. But then Baltimore shut out Indi- anapolis in the second half and Matthew Judon all but extin- guished the Colts’ hopes by hitting Philip Rivers to force an incomple- tion on fourth-and-1 from the Balti- more 16 with 5 minutes 34 seconds remaining. The Ravens gathered in a jubilant locker room, where their general manager, Eric DeCosta, used the word “fortitude” to de- scribe Sunday’s win. At the midway point of their season, the Ravens are positioned well. They are in reach of Pittsburgh. They’re still among the best teams in the N.F.L. They know where they are coming from, and they like where they are going.

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