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SAN DIEGO – Bryson DeChambeau had a 30-hole consecutive no bogeyman and after turning 2 at 33-under 33, was off the lead in the final round of the US Open on Sunday at Torrey Pines.
Then things exploded for the US Open champion.
DeChambeau had a consecutive bogey on 11 and 12, followed by a double bogey 7 on 13 and a 4 bogey 8 on 17.
DeChambeau finished his last round at 6-over 77, including an 8-over 44 in back nine. He ended the tie for 26 in 3-over 287.
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“I’ve never derailed,” DeChambeau said. “It’s golf.” “People will say I did this or I did that, it’s just golf. I’ve had so many times where I hit it way worse than today and won. It’s just one of those things where I didn’t get the right breaks happening at the right time. I could have reached Easily down to 7, 8 under today. I wasn’t entirely confident in my golf swing and had a bit of luck in the tricky spots and elsewhere.”
Having played the entire third round without a bogey — the first time he’s done so in 67 career rounds in a major tournament — he also played his first 10 holes on Sunday without one.
On the par-3 eighth hole, DeChambeau’s tee shot came within one lap of being an ace. His plane moved him to 5 under the command of Solo.
It didn’t take long for things to erupt quickly. After a tie on the 10th hole, he shot DeChambeau’s tee on 11 par-3 to the right and fell near the runway. He broke about 8 feet behind the hole and two for a bogey. At 4 bar, 505 yards 12, he hit his lead in the rough right and fired his second shot at the green. Lay three times from there to another ghost, leaving it to 3 under.
The real damage was done in slots 13 and 17. He slipped onto the 13th tee box during a steering collision and his ball fell into the right stump again. He was able to hit his second shot at just 145 yards from a rough depth, leaving him 191 yards into the hole. He hit his ball in a bunker in front of me and then sailed his fourth shot over the green. He cracked and hit two hits for a double bogey 7.
“Unfortunately, [I] “I’ve had a bad break after a bad break,” DeChambeau said. “I played two little cats next to the green, both weird liars, both trying to get nice with them and screwed up at 13.”
At 17, DeChambeau pulled his starting point into a ravine, received a penalty and hit his third shot into a vault. With one foot in the dugout and one foot out, he shot his ball across the green. He ended up taking Ghost Quartet 8.
“You took a great second shot — well, third shot, and the ball is spinning quite a lot,” DeChambeau said. “The wind died down and went down short and came back from that leading edge into a really bad lie. I just tried to chop it up, and I caught the bass from a weird line.”
It wasn’t the title defense Deschamps hoped for. This was the fourth consecutive major tournament in which he finished 25th outside since winning the 2020 US Open by six shots at Winged Foot.
“That’s what it is,” he said. “It’s golf. It’s life. I’m proud that I can hold my head now. I’m fine. I’m fine.”
DeChambeau said he won’t cook on the way he’s played the last eight holes for long.
He said, “I don’t even care.” “People think that — I’ve changed a lot, in terms of attitude and everything. It’s frustrating the moment it happens, but then for me now, I don’t really care. I really won it.”
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