{"id":705078,"date":"2026-07-22T10:44:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T10:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/705078\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T10:44:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T10:44:24","slug":"golfer-bryson-dechambeau-threatened-to-call-trump-if-penalty-wasnt-overturned-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/705078\/","title":{"rendered":"Golfer Bryson DeChambeau Threatened To Call Trump If Penalty Wasn’t Overturned: Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"

Golfer Bryson DeChambeau<\/a> reportedly threatened to use his friendship with President Donald Trump<\/a> to help dispute a penalty at the British Open<\/a> over the weekend.<\/p>\n

DeChambeau \u2014 a Trump supporter and chair of the President\u2019s Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition \u2014 asked officials at the major tournament across the pond to bring the U.S. president into the tense, 30-minute conversation in hopes of overturning a two-stroke penalty that he was assessed at the fifth hole.<\/p>\n

Video shows<\/a> DeChambeau arguing with rules officials after he was slapped with a penalty for \u201cinadvertently improving his lie\u201d on the hole, knocking him out of second place at the time and putting him three shots behind the leader.<\/p>\n

He ultimately finished -4 par and tied for 14th place. New Zealand\u2019s Ryan Fox took the winner\u2019s trophy Sunday.<\/p>\n

Geoff Shackelford was the first to report<\/a> on DeChambeau\u2019s Trump threat in a post to his Substack page, The Quadrilateral.<\/p>\n

The Times of London<\/a> and The Telegraph<\/a> also confirmed the golfer called for the president to intervene.<\/p>\n

HuffPost has reached out to the White House and the golfer\u2019s representatives for comment. <\/p>\n

\"PresidentPresident Donald Trump (right) walks toward the Oval Office with 2024 U.S. Open winner Bryson DeChambeau after playing golf last year. <\/p>\n

The penalty row saw DeChambeau getting an unusual opportunity to later return to the fifth hole to plead his case without signing his scorecard upon completing the round, creating delays and headaches for fellow golfers in the process.<\/p>\n

DeChambeau\u2019s request for Trump to get involved was denied, per Shackelford\u2019s newsletter.<\/p>\n

Mark Darbon \u2014 chief executive of the governing body of golf, Royal and Ancient \u2014 told BBC Radio 5 on Saturday that he had not received a call from Trump regarding the penalty.<\/p>\n

The golfer\u2019s reported threat arrives just weeks after Trump called up FIFA President Gianni Infantino<\/a> on behalf of U.S. men\u2019s soccer star Folarin Balogun, who was assessed a one-game suspension in the wake of a controversial red card during a match in the round of 32.<\/p>\n

That decision was subsequently reversed ahead of the American squad\u2019s match against Belgium in the round of 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Golfer Bryson DeChambeau reportedly threatened to use his friendship with President Donald Trump to help dispute a penalty…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":705079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[7165,3025,141,5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-705078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-british-open","tag-bryson-dechambeau","tag-donald-trump","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705078","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=705078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/705079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}