{"id":807981,"date":"2026-07-18T09:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T09:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/807981\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T09:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T09:54:10","slug":"bryson-dechambeau-disappointed-with-open-rules-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/807981\/","title":{"rendered":"Bryson DeChambeau &#8216;Disappointed&#8217; With Open Rules Penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"elk-074cc57c-8281-11f1-8e01-211207bbb548\"><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.golfmonthly.com\/tag\/bryson-dechambeau\" data-auto-tag-linker=\"true\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.golfmonthly.com\/tag\/bryson-dechambeau\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.golfmonthly.com\/tag\/bryson-dechambeau\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bryson DeChambeau<\/a> says he is &#8220;disappointed&#8221; with <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.golfmonthly.com\/news\/bryson-dechambeau-handed-two-shot-penalty-at-open-championship\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.golfmonthly.com\/news\/bryson-dechambeau-handed-two-shot-penalty-at-open-championship\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.golfmonthly.com\/news\/bryson-dechambeau-handed-two-shot-penalty-at-open-championship\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">his two-stroke penalty at The Open<\/a> for a breach of Rule 8.1.<\/p>\n<p>The two-time Major champion was deemed to have inadvertently improved the path of his swing by trampling down fescue rough to the right of the 5th hole.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"elk-seasonal\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"elk-074cc57c-8281-11f1-8e01-211207bbb548-2\">His bogey was turned into a triple-bogey, causing his score to fall from seven-under to five-under.<\/p>\n<p id=\"elk-b332bbd2-8284-11f1-acfa-6b291ca27f8d\">DeChambeau spent over an hour deliberating with officials, which included a return to the exact scene of the alleged rules break, before walking past on-site media and heading for the driving range.<\/p>\n<p>He was being asked if he would be playing &#8216;tomorrow&#8217; but remained tight-lipped.<\/p>\n<p>            You may like<\/p>\n<p>He spent 45 minutes hitting balls in the pitch dark before leaving at around 10.30pm local time.<\/p>\n<p id=\"elk-68c9fbc8-8284-11f1-8225-0920fded7331\">While he did not give his take on the ruling, a short social media post told us he was disappointed with the ruling and also that he did not agree with it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"newsletter-form__strapline\">Subscribe to the Golf Monthly newsletter to stay up to date with all the latest tour news, equipment news, reviews, head-to-heads and buyer\u2019s guides from our team of experienced experts.<\/p>\n<p>He seemingly confirmed he would be playing in round three after reports of him considering whether to withdraw from the event.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Obviously disappointed with the ruling. I don\u2019t agree with it, but it is what it is. This fires me up. Onto the weekend. Let\u2019s get it,&#8221; he wrote on social media.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Obviously disappointed with the ruling. I don\u2019t agree with it, but it is what it is. This fires me up. Onto the weekend. Let\u2019s get it.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cantworkitout\/status\/2078254092430737465\" data-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cantworkitout\/status\/2078254092430737465\" target=\"_blank\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">July 17, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"elk-6e7bb238-8283-11f1-ac29-7362c72fec77\">After three consecutive missed cuts in Majors, DeChambeau has been brilliant at the 154th Open so far.<\/p>\n<p>He begins round three just three strokes behind leader Lucas Herbert and will play in the third-to-last group alongside <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.golfmonthly.com\/tag\/sam-burns\" data-auto-tag-linker=\"true\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.golfmonthly.com\/tag\/sam-burns\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.golfmonthly.com\/tag\/sam-burns\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Burns<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bryson DeChambeau says he is &#8220;disappointed&#8221; with his two-stroke penalty at The Open for a breach of Rule&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":807982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-807981","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\/807981","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=807981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/807982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}