{"id":535660,"date":"2026-07-20T20:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T20:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/535660\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T20:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T20:15:10","slug":"bryson-dechambeau-threatened-to-call-trump-over-british-open-penalty-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/535660\/","title":{"rendered":"Bryson DeChambeau threatened to call Trump over British Open penalty: reports"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is not known whether DeChambeau made contact with Trump privately, but on Saturday R&A chief executive Mark Darbon was asked whether the President had been in touch.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, I have not received a call from President Trump,\u201d he told BBC Sport.<\/p>\n

\u201cIrrespective of which player this affected, it is the same decision \u2013 from a rules perspective it was clear cut.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is understood that after his round on Saturday, DeChambeau visited Darbon, where his request to gain possession of his scorecard from the previous day was declined.<\/p>\n

Rory McIlroy responded to DeChambeau\u2019s penalty by calling his rival\u2019s antics \u201cperformative\u201d.<\/p>\n

DeChambeau finished the tournament in 14th place, six shots behind champion Ryan Fox, and refused to speak to the waiting media on Sunday.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of ups and downs this week, to say the least. But I\u2019m proud of the way I fought through it,\u201d DeChambeau said on Instagram.<\/p>\n

\u201cThank you to all my supporters for carrying me through. Onwards and upwards from here. Congratulations to Ryan Fox on an incredible win!\u201d<\/p>\n

– AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is not known whether DeChambeau made contact with Trump privately, but on Saturday R&A chief executive Mark…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[14801,38591,3043,18239,38592,2178,111,139,69,5493,1523,23941,2572,17182,766,24559,6122,213,18937,61,2179],"class_list":["post-535660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-british","tag-bryson","tag-call","tag-championship","tag-dechambeau","tag-donald","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-open","tag-over","tag-penalty","tag-president","tag-reportedly","tag-reports","tag-resolve","tag-rules","tag-sports","tag-threatened","tag-to","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}