Aug 19, 2026 · 49 min · 14 segments
Bryson DeChambeau found himself at the center of a rules controversy, and golfers have plenty of opinions about it. Was his two-stroke penalty justified? Does intent matter? And what about his initial…
Well, the big news of the week, well, it almost overshadowed the Open Championship overseas.
That's his first major win.
He does have a lot of win on a bunch of different tours.
He's won a fair amount of prize money over the course of his career, a 39-year-old player.
But for the most part, he's lived his golf career in relative anonymity.
But the big news of the week was Bryson DeChambeau's little, we'll call it dust-up, on a hole at the same tournament.
And like I said, it almost overshadowed the winners and the fact that it came down to the last day and the last few holes.
Yeah, so DeChambeau decided to take a little dance in the grass, and the...
I would say the rules officials were not too happy with that little dance that he took in the grass.
Now, I've watched the video.
It's very controversial whether he purposely put down the grass to help his swing.
It's an improved lie rule, but it wasn't really something that I felt like he was improving his lie.
He was improving his swing.
So they basically came in after the round.
That's the thing I didn't realize when I first saw the news, I thought it was happening in real time and no, it happened afterwards.
They came to him afterwards and said, we're giving you a two point or a two stroke addition because of improving your lie is what the rule actually says but it wasn't really improving his lives improving his backswing is really what it came down to and so they went out and they tried to show him what happened he tried to fight it typical DeChambeau antics and things like that.
But it was really interesting because a lot of the camera angles, I personally don't think he was doing it on purpose, but that's what's really interesting about the rule.
So tell people about the rule that...
it doesn't matter.
The rule's pretty cut and dry.
No one from the golf association, the rules committee, I'm sorry, nobody felt as though he had done it inadvertently.
They said it was inadvertent.
But it's a very cut and dry rule.
That's why I don't think it should be very controversial.
Well, the big news of the week, well, it almost overshadowed the Open Championship overseas.
That's his first major win.
He does have a lot of win on a bunch of different tours.
He's won a fair amount of prize money over the course of his career, a 39-year-old player.
But for the most part, he's lived his golf career in relative anonymity.
But the big news of the week was Bryson DeChambeau's little, we'll call it dust-up, on a hole at the same tournament.
And like I said, it almost overshadowed the winners and the fact that it came down to the last day and the last few holes.
Yeah, so DeChambeau decided to take a little dance in the grass, and the...
I would say the rules officials were not too happy with that little dance that he took in the grass.
Now, I've watched the video.
It's very controversial whether he purposely put down the grass to help his swing.
It's an improved lie rule, but it wasn't really something that I felt like he was improving his lie.
He was improving his swing.
So they basically came in after the round.
That's the thing I didn't realize when I first saw the news, I thought it was happening in real time and no, it happened afterwards.
They came to him afterwards and said, we're giving you a two point or a two stroke addition because of improving your lie is what the rule actually says but it wasn't really improving his lives improving his backswing is really what it came down to and so they went out and they tried to show him what happened he tried to fight it typical DeChambeau antics and things like that.
But it was really interesting because a lot of the camera angles, I personally don't think he was doing it on purpose, but that's what's really interesting about the rule.
So tell people about the rule that...
it doesn't matter.
The rule's pretty cut and dry.
No one from the golf association, the rules committee, I'm sorry, nobody felt as though he had done it inadvertently.
They said it was inadvertent.
But it's a very cut and dry rule.
That's why I don't think it should be very controversial.
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