Bryson DeChambeau seemingly forgot one in every of golf’s most evident guidelines in a weird second throughout his opening spherical of the US Open at Oakmont.
The LIV star shot a three-over par spherical of 73 on Thursday to sit down seven photographs again from clubhouse chief J.J. Spaun, and created a lot dialogue together with his actions on the par 5 fourth, the place Patrick Reed made an albatross.
The defending champion missed the green off the tee and was pressured to hack his second shot out of the notoriously thick tough to get onto the green and arrange an method into the inexperienced.
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He did that nicely however his ball stopped within the crosswalk, which allowed him to take aid.
DeChambeau looked for appropriate drop areas however struggled to seek out one, and opted to play from his unique spot the place spectators had trodden.
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However DeChambeau’s caddie forgot to mark the place the ball had been with a tee, so he needed to take a drop.
He finally discovered a spot however as an alternative of dropping from his knee, because the identify free drop suggests, the American positioned his ball on the bottom.
He was lucky {that a} guidelines official intervened and made him drop, in any other case he would have been slapped with a one-shot penalty.
DeChambeau went on to par the outlet, and in his post-round press convention, he didn’t converse on the incident however he did contact on his weird bogey on the par 5 twelfth after reaching the again of the inexperienced in two.
He chipped throughout the entrance, duffed two chips within the tough after which holed a putt for a six to stroll off the inexperienced shaking his head.
“Yeah, for no matter purpose, simply couldn’t get the velocity of the greens dialed in. I used to be within the collar a pair occasions, simply three-putted on these holes, and three three-putts and doing no matter occurred on 12, then No. 9, three-putting there, too,” DeChambeau mentioned.
“I imply, it might have been a couple-under spherical fairly simply.”
He continued in regards to the twelfth: “I used to be on a 45-degree upslope so there’s actually not a lot I’m making an attempt to do.
“I’m hitting like a semi half flop, and it got here out like a jumper and simply shot and knuckled proper. I’m like, nicely, horrible determination, however life goes on.
“Yeah, only a horrible lie. It ought to have been a 7-iron,” he mentioned.
“I ought to have simply ran it up there as an alternative of making an attempt to get cute with it. That’s the U.S. Open for you. I’ve received to be extra dialed in than what I used to be at this time.”