Bryson DeChambeau’s bid to win The Open has taken a hit after he was given a two-shot penalty on a dramatic evening at Royal Birkdale.<\/p>\n
The American looked to have lifted himself to one shot off the lead on seven under par with a four-under 66 in round two, but was whisked away by rules officials when he walked off the course to discuss a rules infringement.<\/p>\n
The American was accused of trampling on long grass close to his ball on the fifth hole.<\/p>\n
After a long discussion with Open officials, it was confirmed he had been given a two-shot penalty for “inadvertently improving his lie”, pushing him back to five under par and three shots behind leader Lucas Herbert.<\/p>\n
DeChambeau’s participation in the rest of the tournament remains in doubt after the two-time US Open champion, who has never won The Open, refused to confirm he would definitely play in Saturday’s third round.<\/p>\n
He refused to answer questions when he walked past the assembled media after emerging from the recorders’ office, where he spent more than 20 minutes discussing the issue with officials including R&A chief executive Mark Darbon.<\/p>\n
All he said was: “Are you guys having a great night? I’m having a great night.”<\/p>\n
DeChambeau then added that he was off to “hit some balls” and headed off to the driving range, where he posed for a selfie with fans before talking to his team on the practice area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bryson DeChambeau’s bid to win The Open has taken a hit after he was given a two-shot penalty…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-555092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555092","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=555092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}