{"id":708684,"date":"2026-07-24T11:09:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T11:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/708684\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T11:09:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T11:09:14","slug":"two-holes-and-im-there-for-the-claret-jug-dechambeau-says-two-shot-penalty-cost-him-open-bryson-dechambeau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/708684\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Two holes and I\u2019m there for the Claret Jug\u2019: DeChambeau says two-shot penalty cost him Open | Bryson DeChambeau"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bryson DeChambeau believes he would have been \u201cright there for the Claret Jug\u201d if he had not received a two-shot penalty in the Open Championship<\/a> last week at Royal Birkdale.<\/p>\n

DeChambeau made a positive start to last week\u2019s tournament after opening with a 67 and then a 66 on Friday, but his second-round score was later adjusted to 68 after he was handed a retrospective two-stroke penalty at the 5th hole after a video review. The 32-year-old was punished after match officials ruled he had improved the area of his backswing by standing on and flattening some long grass.<\/p>\n

DeChambeau was in the mix at the top of the leaderboard but he dropped from second to fifth in the standings after his bogey was subsequently turned into a triple bogey. The American protested against the decision and even threatened to pull out of the tournament, but he played through the weekend and made 69 in the third round before a final-day 72.<\/p>\n

Ryan Fox clinched victory to claim his first ever major championship at 10 under and DeChambeau finished six shots back at four under, but he feels the two-shot penalty played a pivotal role in his weekend.<\/p>\n

DeChambeau is now playing in LIV Golf<\/a> UK at the JCB Golf and Country Club near Uttoxeter and he said there: \u201cYeah, I made the cut. It was a good fight. I wish I\u2019d have given it more on Saturday and Sunday, it felt like I could have.<\/p>\n

\u201cBesides the 5th, being three over on it, and the 11th, that\u2019s six shots. That\u2019s tied for the lead right there. Two holes and I\u2019m right there for the Claret Jug.\u201d<\/p>\n

After missing the cut in his previous three major championships, DeChambeau\u2019s tied 14th place finish gave him his strongest performance in a major since he was runner-up to Scottie Scheffler at the 2025 US PGA Championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bryson DeChambeau believes he would have been \u201cright there for the Claret Jug\u201d if he had not received…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":708685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-708684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708684","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=708684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}