was penalised two strokes<\/a> for “inadvertently improving his lie” before hitting his second shot at the fifth during the second round. <\/p>\nThe two-time US Open champion was involved in heated and lengthy discussions with R&A rules officials before the penalty was imposed, dropping him from one off the lead to three back, at five under par for the tournament. <\/p>\n
“I think there’s no doubt that he improved the line of his backswing,” said world number two McIlroy, who was beaten to the 2024 US Open title by DeChambeau. <\/p>\n
“Whether it was careless or whether it was intentional, I don’t think it matters. Hopefully it was careless, but I think the two-shot penalty was justified for sure.”<\/p>\n
The scenes involving DeChambeau and tournament officials, when they returned to the scene of the infraction after the round, delayed the release of Saturday’s tee times. <\/p>\n
“[It was a] late night for everyone,” added McIlroy. <\/p>\n
“I won’t pretend to defend Bryson. I’m not particularly fond of him. I think a lot of it’s performative. I think a lot of it’s for attention.<\/p>\n
“To hold the tournament hostage like that, and to have all of us, players, volunteers, everyone waiting on him to depart, I didn’t feel like it was a great look.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy has accused Bryson DeChambeau of holding the Open Championship “hostage” during the dramatic scenes at Royal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":698762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-698761","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\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}