SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. – For the third consecutive major, Bryson DeChambeau’s week will end on Friday with another missed cut and even more Grand Slam questions.
It’s the first time in DeChambeau’s major career, which began a decade ago, that he will miss three consecutive cuts in the game’s biggest events. For the year, he’s a collective 18 over par in the Grand Slam stops, following rounds of 70-75 at the U.S. Open. At 5 over par, he was outside the projected cut line with the afternoon wave on the course.
DeChambeau, who didn’t speak with the media following his second round at Shinnecock Hills, is a generational player who threatened to reinvent the game with his power-ball victory at the 2020 U.S. Open (and again in 2024). He has now gone five major starts without seriously contending. He tied for second at last year’s PGA Championship but that was five shots behind champion Scottie Scheffler.
At Shinnecock Hills, it was a familiar issue for DeChambeau, who struggled with his iron play (145th in strokes gained: approach the green) and on the greens (79th strokes gained: putting).
Despite his struggles in the majors, DeChambeau is a two-time winner this season on LIV Golf and had a pair of top-5 finishes in his last five starts leading into the U.S. Open.
It’s a curious time for DeChambeau with his contract with LIV Golf expiring at the end of this season and the circuit scrambling to find new funding following news in April that Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund was ending its investment in the league after this season. LIV Golf CEO Scott O’Neil is attempting to find $300 million in new funding to replace PIF.
“We’ll see if investors like it or not. I’m giving all I can to make it happen, and if it doesn’t, it doesn’t happen,” DeChambeau told reporters last month in South Korea.
