Bryson DeChambeau posts 3-under 67 at Royal Birkdale to silence critics after three straight missed major cuts

It's been a pugnacious 2026 for two-time large champion Bryson DeChambeau. Although helium won doubly connected LIV Golf successful March, his large show is what volition specify his season.

And those results haven't been good. At all. DeChambeau, for the archetypal clip successful his career, missed the chopped successful 3 consecutive majors: the 2026 Masters, PGA Championship and U.S. Open.

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But you're lone arsenic bully arsenic your past round, and DeChambeau yet has immoderate momentum going successful 2026. In the archetypal circular of the Open Championship astatine Royal Birkdale, DeChambeau shared the pb until helium made a bogey connected his last hole.

Bryson DeChambeau waves to the assemblage during the 154th Open Championship astatine Royal Birkdale. (Oisin Keniry/R&A)

Still, helium managed to sprout a 3-under 67, putting himself successful large presumption to astatine slightest marque the chopped and perchance contend for a large title again.

DeChambeau hadn't changeable nether par successful immoderate of his six large rounds successful 2026, truthful it was acold and distant his champion large circular of the year. He played successful the aforesaid radical with satellite No. 1 Scottie Scheffler and finished 1 changeable amended than Scheffler.

DeChambeau flashed the agelong crippled that helped vault him into the speech arsenic 1 of the champion players successful the world. With Royal Birkdale dried out, DeChambeau took vantage and played aggressively disconnected the tee. Even though helium deed lone 5 of 14 fairways, the 32-year-old American was 2nd successful the tract successful strokes gained: disconnected the tee pursuing the greeting wave.

Bryson DeChambeau tees disconnected connected the 14th spread during the archetypal circular of the 154th Open Championship astatine Royal Birkdale. (Andrew Redington/Getty Images)

In 2024 and 2025, DeChambeau finished wrong the apical 10 successful six of his 8 large starts, including a triumph astatine the 2024 U.S. Open and a brace of runner-up finishes astatine the 2024 and 2025 PGA Championships.

He was being discussed successful the aforesaid speech arsenic Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy arsenic 1 of the champion golfers connected the planet.

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But with the aboriginal of LIV Golf up successful the air, DeChambeau made comments implying helium mightiness not instrumentality to the PGA Tour should LIV Golf unopen down and could alternatively absorption connected YouTube golf.

Former players and play analysts teed disconnected connected DeChambeau's comments, saying that his absorption connected YouTube play implicit competitory nonrecreational play affected his majors performance.

Bryson DeChambeau changeable a 3-under 67 successful the Open Championship archetypal circular aft missing the chopped astatine the Masters, PGA Championship and U.S. Open successful 2026. (Adrian Dennis/AFP via Getty Images)

Heading into the Open Championship, Nick Faldo said DeChambeau "has zero hint of strategy".

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Brandel Chamblee piled on: "It's astir similar helium went from chasing Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy to chasing [YouTube golfer] Grant Horvat. It's similar helium wants to outdo each YouTuber successful the crippled of play alternatively of outplay everybody successful the crippled of golf."

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DeChambeau, who usually makes himself disposable to the media pursuing his rounds, declined to talk to reporters pursuing Thursday's performance.

But, for astatine slightest 1 time astatine the Open Championship, DeChambeau looked a batch much similar Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy than Grant Horvat.

Whether helium tin support it up remains to beryllium seen.