In the final round of last year\u2019s Masters, DeChambeau\u2019s hopes faded with a double-bogey at the 11th when he found the creek on the left side. Asked if he was cognizant of not going left again, he replied: \u201cThe ball flew 12 yards father than I wanted it to. I had a good shot.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
He then ended his round with a bogey-birdie-bogey finish, leaving him with plenty to digest overnight.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cJust going to give what the golf course gives me,\u201d he said when asked about his approach moving forward. \u201cI have to try to hit my irons better. I drove it left numerous occasions. Did a great job on 18. Wind didn\u2019t hurt it like we thought, and that\u2019s this golf course.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Rahm started his round with a bogey, suffered three more at holes 3, 6 and 9, but had a chance to produce something positive after his tee shot at the par-5 13th bounced into the fairway after it appeared to be headed left into trouble, a break he desperately wanted to capitalize on.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Instead, his next shot left him wondering what happened, as he found the shrubs left of the green, leading to a double bogey \u2013 his first-ever at the 13th.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI still don’t know what happened, honestly,\u201d he said. \u201cTo get so lucky off the tee, to have an 8-iron in my hand, I don’t know, that ball came out about 10 yards left, 20 feet higher, and hooking in a way that I didn’t expect. To make such a mistake from what could have been a good birdie look, it’s a big problem.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s probably the part I’m the most upset at today. On that hole, you know, I’m 4-over. If I put it on the green, two-putt, 3-over. Still not good, but a little bit more manageable, right? That was very a possible three-shot swing after how lucky I got off the tee.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Asked to process his round, Rahm replied: \u201cIt’s a hard golf course. Some of the players might have been able to manage a respectable round, but when you have no feel with the swing whatsoever, it’s just not an easy one. What I manage? Hopefully get some physio, get some dinner, get something positive going in that sense. Tomorrow is a new day.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Perhaps he can lean on last year when he shot his previous worst round at Augusta, opening with a 75 that left him tied for 63rd. He bounced back the next day with a 71 to make the cut, eventually finishing tied for 14th. Not the result he wanted but at least respectable given the start.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Of course, this week\u2019s challenge is even larger.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve done that a few times,\u201d he said, \u201cbut it still sucks to be in this position, to need a Herculean effort the next two days to give myself a chance to maybe sniff having a chance to win. It\u2019s just frustrating.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Top image: Crushers GC Captain Bryson DeChambeau hits a shot on No. 17 during Round 1 of the Masters at Augusta National Golf Club on Thursday, April 9, 2026. (Photo\u00a0by Montana Pritchard\/LIV Golf)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the final round of last year\u2019s Masters, DeChambeau\u2019s hopes faded with a double-bogey at the 11th when…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-593806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}