{"id":714622,"date":"2026-06-20T01:31:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T01:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/714622\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T01:31:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T01:31:13","slug":"2026-u-s-open-bryson-dechambeau-hits-427-yard-drive-in-round-1-wraps-up-opening-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/714622\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 U.S. Open: Bryson DeChambeau hits 427-yard drive in Round 1, wraps up opening 70"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Playing downwind and downhill helped. A bounce off asphalt played a large part. But a 427-yard drive is a 427-yard drive.<\/p>\n<p>Bryson DeChambeau launched his tee shot on the 472-yard, par-4 12th \u2014 his third hole \u2014 in Round 1 of the U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills. The ball caught the air stream, hit hard on the fairway, bounced off Tuckahoe Road, and settled 45 yards from the hole.<\/p>\n<p>DeChambeau made birdie and followed it up with another on the par-4 13th to reach 2 under par early in his opening round, which was suspended Thursday night after a two-hour fog suspension in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>The two-time U.S. Open champion wrapped up things Friday morning and closed with a bogey. It was, however, a good \u20185&#8242; as he hacked his way around the par-4 ninth and made a 26-footer to avoid disaster.<\/p>\n<p>DeChambeau shot even-par 70 to finish six back of Wyndham Clark. He then went straight to the range ahead of his 7:45 a.m. ET tee time for Round 2.<\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"Link\" aria-label=\"2026 U.S. Open, Round 2 recap: McIlroy, Scheffler seven shots behind Clark at Shinnecock\" href=\"https:\/\/www.golfchannel.com\/usga\/live\/u-s-open-2026-live-updates-leaderboard-scores-highlights-news-from-round-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"rory-clark-scottie-split.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1781919073_92_.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wyndham Clark carries a big lead over the world\u2019s best top two players at Shinnecock Hills with 36 holes left to play at the 126th U.S. Open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Playing downwind and downhill helped. A bounce off asphalt played a large part. But a 427-yard drive is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":714623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-714622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=714622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/714623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}