Bryson DeChambeau has again put himself on a path to going home Friday night at the Open Championship with a first-round 78.<\/p>\n
DeChambeau had zero birdies, three bogeys and two double bogeys at Royal Portrush, a miserable afternoon that is but all too familiar for one of the biggest golf stars in the world.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s averaged a first-round 73.6 in seven previous Open appearances, missing the cut three times and only truly being in it once \u2014 at the 2022 Open at St. Andrews, where he finished T8.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s the problem? He\u2019ll dance around it but it\u2019s really quite simple: DeChambeau\u2019s power is in him thinking of every possible angle and determining the best way for him to overpower the golf course. Links courses pose so many questions to you that you cannot possibly find an answer to them all, and must withstand. It\u2019s a style of golf that\u2019s just not meant for him.<\/p>\n
The 18th hole was emblematic of that \u2014 DeChambeau forced the issue from the fairway, attacking a pin position he was in place to attack. He instead ends up in a roll-off area, takes three shots to get into the hole and cards another bogey when he\u2019d have been better served taking his par medicine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bryson DeChambeau has again put himself on a path to going home Friday night at the Open Championship…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-1277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}