{"id":76249,"date":"2026-07-18T11:55:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T16:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/18\/mcilroy-lashes-out-at-dechambeau-for-holding-the-open-hostage-over-penalty-row\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T11:55:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T16:55:29","slug":"mcilroy-lashes-out-at-dechambeau-for-holding-the-open-hostage-over-penalty-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/18\/mcilroy-lashes-out-at-dechambeau-for-holding-the-open-hostage-over-penalty-row\/","title":{"rendered":"McIlroy lashes out at DeChambeau for \u2018holding the Open hostage\u2019 over penalty row"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>\u2018I won\u2019t defend Bryson \u2013 I\u2019m not fond of him\u2019<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Masters champion says rival\u2019s actions \u2018not a good look\u2019<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Rory McIlroy has accused a \u201cperformative\u201d Bryson DeChambeau of \u201cholding the tournament hostage\u201d after the incredible scenes which marked the end of the American\u2019s second round at the Open.<\/p>\n<p>DeChambeau\u2019s antics were matched in noteworthy terms by the scathing sentiment of McIlroy on Saturday. \u201cI won\u2019t pretend to be up here and defend Bryson,\u201d said McIlroy. \u201cI\u2019m not particularly fond of him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/jul\/18\/mcilroy-lashes-out-dechambeau-holding-open-hostage-penalty-row\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018I won\u2019t defend Bryson \u2013 I\u2019m not fond of him\u2019 Masters champion says rival\u2019s actions \u2018not a good look\u2019 Rory McIlroy has accused a \u201cperformative\u201d Bryson DeChambeau of \u201cholding the tournament hostage\u201d after the incredible scenes which marked the end of the American\u2019s second round at the Open. DeChambeau\u2019s antics were matched in noteworthy terms &#8230; <a title=\"McIlroy lashes out at DeChambeau for \u2018holding the Open hostage\u2019 over penalty row\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/18\/mcilroy-lashes-out-at-dechambeau-for-holding-the-open-hostage-over-penalty-row\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about McIlroy lashes out at DeChambeau for \u2018holding the Open hostage\u2019 over penalty row\">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-76249","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\/76249","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=76249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}