Bryson DeChambeau rallies for 65 in second round of The Open
Portrush, Northern Ireland – late Thursday evening, while walking behind the stands of the 18th hole and far from Royal Portrush, a frustrated Bryson Dechambeau just wanted to leave the open championship and go home.
With what seemed to be a missed cup on Friday in what was historically the worst major of Dechambeau, the double champion of the US Open decided to resist the urge to do things and look at the majors of 2026.
“I woke up this morning and said,” What do you know? I can’t give up “, said Dechambeau. “I was proud of the way I fought.”
After a 78 in the first round in which he failed to do a single stew, Dechambeau improved his scoring with 13 strokes and pulled one of the bass laps of the day – a 65 under 65 – to go up to 1 and be around the projected cut line.
“I really persevered through emotionally difficult moments,” said Dechambeau. “And to keep me together and not make up to me uphill and slam clubs and throw things and everything I wanted, as if I was very proud of myself.”
After missing 28% of fairways and struck 39% of regulations in regulation in the first round, Dechambeau struck more than 50% of his fairways on Friday and struck all the Greens of Portrush in the regulations.
Dechambeau, however, insisted that the notation gulf between the two days was not representative of his real room.
“I played the same thing as I did yesterday. This is links for you,” said Dechambeau. “I executed roughly the same plans as yesterday. I did not feel like I played different. Today, they went a bit in my own way. My corners was just a better fraction, and that was really it. Done a few more putts. There was not many different. This is why golf links are the way in golf links are.”
Dechambeau had trouble with open, recording its only Top 10 at the event in 2022 and with three missing cuts in seven appearances. He admitted in the past that the volatility of golf on this side of the world could throw him away from his game. The game of Dechambeau is more aerial than on the field, he tried to adapt to little success.
“To be a full golfer, you have to win here. This is something that I had trouble doing,” he said. “I have played well at times when it is dry and that the green vegetables are more consistent in their rebound and that the Greens are a little better. But when it becomes as chaotic as that, the wind going in all directions, completely turning over 18, when you prepare all day in this left turn, you must be a complete gulfer that pivots on demand.”
While Dechambeau pivots and constantly shone his equipment, he has not yet cracked the code at the opening. Its 65 Friday occurred in some of the best conditions that the course saw for two days.
Earlier this week, Phil Mickelson said that his open victory in Muirfield in 2013 was the most proud moment of his career because he had learned to win on a golf course style that he did not grow up.
“I think he’s right,” said Dechambeau. “For me, if [winning The Open] It should never be in my career, it would probably be the most proud too. “”
