Rory McIlroy left the door open but the 2020 U.S. Open winner still had to walk through it with what will be remembered as an all-time up and down at Pinehurst No. 2.
PINEHURST, N.C. — You could hear the celebratory chants and cheers from the other side of the Pinehurst clubhouse, Bryson DeChambeau barely having signed his scorecard with the U.S. Open trophy soon to be paraded around the premises, pure jubilation.And that’s when Rory McIlroy and members of his team including his agent and caddie made a hasty departure, piling into a tournament-provided Lexus TX 350.
“He'll win multiple more major championships. There's no doubt. I think that fire in him is going to continue to grow. I have nothing but respect for how he plays the game of golf because, to be honest, when he was climbing up the leaderboard, he was two ahead, I was like, Uh-oh, uh-oh. But luckily things went my way today.”, was just as much in victory to laud McIlroy—who actually may not ever get it done after the way this went down.
But he did not do it with his best stuff Sunday. DeChambeau, for some reason, changed the head on his driver roughly 30 minutes prior to the final round. He admitted afterward he probably should not have done so. He hit just 5 of 14 fairways and just 11 of 18 greens. He made only two birdies and shot 1-over-par 71, his highest score of the week.
Both players parred the 17th and then McIlroy pulled his drive into the brush left of the 18th fairway. He had just 123 yards left but appeared to have an awkward lie, the ball emerging low and running up short of the green, some 90 feet from the hole. He hit a nice chip to just under 4 feet—and missed.But DeChambeau had his own issues. He, too, found the area left of the fairway and sought relief from a rules official, believing a temporary immovable obstruction was in his way.
“But his short game is very underrated. I told people he’s going to chip a lot. Obviously you don’t want a 50-yard bunker shot to get up and down to win the U.S. Open. But I wasn’t shocked when he hit to 4 feet.”
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