Bryson DeChambeau was controversially handed a two-shot penalty after shooting a 66 which had catapulted him into second place in The Open.<\/p>\n
The two-time major champion was adjudged to have improved his stance as he attempted to escape from the rough earlier in his round.<\/p>\n
DeChambeau had produced a brilliant birdie-birdie finish which he thought had put him in the final group for Saturday on seven under par.<\/p>\n
However, moments after signing his card he was informed there were issues with how he played the driveable par-four fifth and was taken out to the spot of the alleged infringement while the later finishers were still out on the course.<\/p>\n
The suggestion appeared to be that having carved his drive wide right over the pond into rough he had trampled down some high grass which allowed him a better angle to hit his ball.<\/p>\n
After several minutes of animated discussion, which involved the 32-year-old \u2013 club in hand \u2013 attempting to show R&A officials how he had played the shot, the two-time US Open champion was driven back to the recorders’ office with a face like thunder where further discussions were held.<\/p>\n
DeChambeau made bogey on the hole but as a result of the penalty his score was amended to a seven on the official leaderboard, meaning his round was adjusted to a 68 which dropped him into a share of fifth.<\/p>\n
“Bryson has been penalised two strokes for inadvertently improving the area of his intended swing, his backswing, when he was playing his second shot,” said R&A\u2019s executive director \u2013 governance Grant Moir.<\/p>\n
The two-time US Open winner walked past waiting media \u2013 to whom he had refused to speak in his previous five major rounds \u2013 and headed straight for the practice ground.<\/p>\n
“I\u2019m going to hit some balls,” was all he would say as he went to the range at 9.40pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bryson DeChambeau was controversially handed a two-shot penalty after shooting a 66 which had catapulted him into second…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-555076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}