{"id":76314,"date":"2026-07-20T10:55:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T15:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/20\/dechambeau-moves-the-dial-for-golf-but-is-his-posturing-and-pantomime-worth-the-hassle-ewan-murray\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T10:55:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T15:55:52","slug":"dechambeau-moves-the-dial-for-golf-but-is-his-posturing-and-pantomime-worth-the-hassle-ewan-murray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/20\/dechambeau-moves-the-dial-for-golf-but-is-his-posturing-and-pantomime-worth-the-hassle-ewan-murray\/","title":{"rendered":"DeChambeau moves the dial for golf but is his posturing and pantomime worth the hassle? | Ewan Murray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Petulant reaction to a justified two-stroke penalty at the Open illustrate why the American is happier on the LIV tour<\/p>\n<p>The potential for stigma was laid bare close to the conclusion of Saturday at the Open Championship. \u201cBryson, ya cheat,\u201d bellowed a lone voice from the stand adjacent to Royal Birkdale\u2019s 18th green. This is an environment in which being unfaithful to one\u2019s spouse would be seen as preferable to breaching the sacred rules of a sacred game.<\/p>\n<p>By Sunday, the world No 1, Scottie Scheffler, was riding to the defence of Bryson DeChambeau. \u201cI\u2019ve known him for a long time and he\u2019s a lot of things, but he\u2019s definitely not a cheater,\u201d said Scheffler. Except in this case, nuance is required. No one in authority has actually accused DeChambeau of cheating for the incident which incurred a two-stroke penalty. The R&amp;A\u2019s executive director of governance stipulated DeChambeau\u2019s action when breaching the rules during round two was \u201caccidental\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/jul\/20\/dechambeau-moves-the-dial-for-golf-but-is-his-posturing-and-pantomime-worth-the-hassle\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Petulant reaction to a justified two-stroke penalty at the Open illustrate why the American is happier on the LIV tour The potential for stigma was laid bare close to the conclusion of Saturday at the Open Championship. \u201cBryson, ya cheat,\u201d bellowed a lone voice from the stand adjacent to Royal Birkdale\u2019s 18th green. This is &#8230; <a title=\"DeChambeau moves the dial for golf but is his posturing and pantomime worth the hassle? | Ewan Murray\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/20\/dechambeau-moves-the-dial-for-golf-but-is-his-posturing-and-pantomime-worth-the-hassle-ewan-murray\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about DeChambeau moves the dial for golf but is his posturing and pantomime worth the hassle? | Ewan Murray\">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-76314","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\/76314","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=76314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}