British Open: Bryson DeChambeau sorry for club-blaming outburst – ‘I sucked today, not my equipment’
- The 2020 US Open champion calls his comments ‘very unprofessional’ after a tough first round
- ‘It’s just really, really painful when he says something that stupid’ – Cobra tour operations manager Ben Schomin
Bryson DeChambeau fought the wind blowing in from the English Channel and the thick thatches of rough at Royal St George’s. And then he fought with his clubmaker.
“I sucked today, not my equipment,” DeChambeau wrote in the apology on Instagram. “The comment I made in my post round interview today was very unprofessional. My frustration and emotions over the way I drove the ball boiled over.”
DeChambeau’s bulked-up body made its links debut on the shores of Sandwich Bay, but instead of using his new strength to outdrive his opponents he needed it just to muscle his way out of the thigh-high rough. He hit just four of 14 fairways, made five bogeys to go with four birdies and finished seven strokes behind 18-hole leader Louis Oosthuizen.
“If I can hit it down the middle of the fairway, that’s great. But with the driver right now, the driver sucks,” he said. “It’s not a good face for me and we’re still trying to figure out how to make it good on the mis-hits. I’m living on the razor’s edge.”
