Scottie Scheffler has defended Bryson DeChambeau over his guidelines controversy at The Open and has insisted the two-time US Open champion is ‘not a cheater’.
DeChambeau dominated headlines at Royal Birkdale in the course of the remaining males’s main of the 12 months, the place he gave the impression to be inside a shot of the midway lead earlier than being handed a two-shot penalty after his second spherical.
The LIV Golf League star was adjudged to have improved the road of his backswing in lengthy grass on the par-four fifth, turning his bogey right into a triple-bogey seven, with DeChambeau concerned in heated discussions with guidelines officers late into Friday night.
Hypothesis that DeChambeau was set to withdraw in protest was shortly quashed by the American, who declined to talk to the media after each event spherical however mentioned on social media that the choice ‘fired him up’ to proceed.
Rory McIlroy criticised DeChambeau’s “performative” behaviour, which included a prolonged dialogue post-round on the course and a late-night vary session, though the R&A accepted that his actions had been unintentional.
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Rory McIlroy spoke to the media after his third spherical of The Open and mentioned he was not impressed with Bryson DeChambeau’s actions
“I’ve known him [DeChambeau] for a long time and he’s a lot of things, but he’s definitely not a cheater,” Scheffler instructed reporters after his tied-fourth end. “I’ve by no means seen him cheat as soon as.
“Whether or not we had been having a placing contest on the placing inexperienced or chipping contest, or anytime we performed newbie golf, I by no means noticed something suspicious.
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Bryson DeChambeau was given a two-shot penalty after inadvertently bettering his lie in thick tough on the fifth gap
“When you’re watching him there from that camera angle, maybe he was a touch careless around his ball, but I don’t think he did anything intentionally.”
Scheffler held off speaking concerning the incident after this third spherical however gave his views on the ultimate day, with the world No 1 questioning whether or not there are alternative ways to implement the principles.
“I think maybe we need to be a little bit more strict in the way that we are policing guys,” Scheffler defined. “It’s a little bit of a balance because you’ve got certain guys like Bryson, who every shot he hits is going to be shown on TV.
“When you’ve digicam angles which can be far-off, issues can look completely different than they do while you’re proper there. I really feel like at instances, typically you see gamers perhaps push it a bit bit additional than they need to.
“I think we need to get back to the traditions of the game and maybe we do need to police things a little bit more stricter in the game.”
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Sam Burns mentioned that ‘there was not sufficient proof’ to penalise Bryson DeChambeau in the course of the second spherical
Scheffler on near-miss: ‘It wasn’t my week’
Scheffler was aiming to change into the primary back-to-back winner of The Open since Padraig Harrington and briefly discovered himself inside one of many lead on the ultimate day, solely to bogey the final and end three strokes behind Ryan Fox.
“Today was a great effort,” Scheffler insisted. “I felt like I was doing the right things out there. I gave myself a lot of looks again today. I guess it just wasn’t my week.
“I obtained a superb break there on 17, however off the tee, it in all probability ought to have been within the fairway. That stuff hurts. My ball on 13 goes into that gap. It wasn’t my finest tee shot, but it surely was a time the place I wanted to be aggressive.
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Scottie Scheffler raged after his tee shot discovered the tough on the par-five seventeenth gap at Royal Birkdale
“I saw some good stuff happening with guys that hit the ball over there the last few days, and it didn’t happen for me today. Just those little bounces. My ball on 14 I think is in the fairway, I come up there, it’s in the pot bunker. Little stuff like that over the course of the week tends to add up.
“I competed rather well this week. I did a superb job of staying affected person and hit the ball very nice over the course of 4 days. Possibly yesterday was the one day I did not strike it in addition to I’d have appreciated to.”
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Highlights of the ultimate spherical of The Open, the place Ryan Fox claimed a formidable maiden main victory
What’s subsequent?
The subsequent PGA Tour occasion is the 3M Open at TPC Twin Cities in Minnesota, starting Thursday, with early protection on Sky Sports activities+ earlier than switching to Sky Sports activities Golf at 7pm.
The 3M Open is a part of a triple-header of reside golf on Sky Sports activities, with the ISPS Handa Senior Open and ISPS Handa Girls’s Scottish Open additionally reside. The ladies’s main season then concludes with the AIG Girls’s Open from July 30-August 2, additionally reside on Sky Sports activities Golf. Get Sky Sports activities or stream with no contract.
