{"id":76222,"date":"2026-07-17T17:55:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T22:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/17\/dechambeaus-participation-in-the-open-in-doubt-after-two-stroke-penalty\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T17:55:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T22:55:28","slug":"dechambeaus-participation-in-the-open-in-doubt-after-two-stroke-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/17\/dechambeaus-participation-in-the-open-in-doubt-after-two-stroke-penalty\/","title":{"rendered":"DeChambeau\u2019s participation in the Open in doubt after two-stroke penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>American punished for improving line of his swing<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Sanction moved DeChambeau out of second place<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bryson DeChambeau\u2019s ongoing participation in the Open Championship is in doubt after extraordinary scenes at the conclusion of the 32-year-old\u2019s second round at Royal Birkdale. DeChambeau was handed a two-stroke penalty for improving the line of his swing in thick rough, with the scenario prompting a furious response from the American. The sanction shifted DeChambeau out of second place and an initial position of one stroke behind <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/jul\/17\/herbert-proud-but-disappointed-after-missing-putt-for-record-breaking-61\">the leader Lucas Herbert<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After 10pm and in darkness on the Birkdale range, DeChambeau was still pounding drives while asking waiting media if they cared for any of his snacks. He had already asked what the media thought of his swing. In 153 previous stagings, the Open had witnessed nothing akin to this. Life around DeChambeau is rarely dull.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/jul\/17\/bryson-dechambeau-the-open-participation-in-doubt-two-stroke-penalty-golf\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American punished for improving line of his swing Sanction moved DeChambeau out of second place Bryson DeChambeau\u2019s ongoing participation in the Open Championship is in doubt after extraordinary scenes at the conclusion of the 32-year-old\u2019s second round at Royal Birkdale. DeChambeau was handed a two-stroke penalty for improving the line of his swing in thick &#8230; <a title=\"DeChambeau\u2019s participation in the Open in doubt after two-stroke penalty\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/17\/dechambeaus-participation-in-the-open-in-doubt-after-two-stroke-penalty\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about DeChambeau\u2019s participation in the Open in doubt after two-stroke penalty\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}