{"id":770664,"date":"2026-07-18T18:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T18:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/770664\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T18:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T18:19:08","slug":"rory-mcilroy-rips-bryson-dechambeau-for-2026-open-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/770664\/","title":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy Rips Bryson DeChambeau for 2026 Open Penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"

Professional golfers, for the most part, don\u2019t like to throw shade at one another. Politeness is ingrained in the sport\u2019s DNA, so when there is controversy, most of them steer clear and offer benign statements. Rory McIlroy is not like other golfers, particularly when it comes to Bryson DeChambeau<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

McIlroy walked into the mixed zone on Saturday minutes after shooting a 67 in the third round of the 2026 Open Championship<\/a> and made it clear he was happy to answer a few questions about DeChambeau\u2019s Friday evening rules controversy<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, I think there’s no doubt that he improved the line of his backswing,\u201d McIlroy said. \u201cAgain, it’s like, 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.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

McIlroy did not mince words when asked about the spectacle after the penalty.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, look, I won’t pretend to be up here and defend Bryson,\u201d he said. \u201cI’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

\u201cTo 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

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McIlroy conceded that policing the rules can be difficult because not every player appears on camera the way some of the top players do.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThere’s a lot of guys that play this week and the shots aren’t on camera,\u201d McIlroy said. \u201cSo you can say that that’s unfair or whatever, or it might happen more than it does. It’s obviously impossible to police everyone, and that’s why it is, for the most part, a self-policing game.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

He did not think there was any doubt about what happened with DeChambeau, however.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI think when there is obvious evidence like there was last night, then obviously that’s a different story,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Professional golfers, for the most part, don\u2019t like to throw shade at one another. Politeness is ingrained in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":770665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-770664","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\/770664","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=770664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/770665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}