FARMINGDALE, N.Y. (AP) — There’s one YouTube video of Bryson DeChambeau riding in a golf cart with Adam Sandler — Happy Gilmore, himself — trying to break 50 in a two-man scramble. (They didn’t.)

There’s another of DeChambeau lofting wedge shots over his house trying to make a hole-in-one on a green in his backyard. (He did, finally.)

These videos, part of a steady stream of content delivered to a subscriber base of 2.35 million and growing, might best explain why DeChambeau stands out, even in a field filled with golf’s very best at this week’s Ryder Cup.

DeChambeau’s return to the Ryder Cup marks the latest step in his remarkable evolution from overly analytic, flat cap-wearing know-it-all into golf’s man of the people.

It’s a journey not even his much-derided and debated departure f

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