Bryson DeChambeau suffered another on-course meltdown on Friday, one week after he capitulated on the final hole of his 2026 Masters.
The American teed it up at LIV Golf’s Mexico event this week after missing the cut in agonizing fashion last week.
However, the fairways of Club de Golf Chapultepec seemingly didn’t live up to the immaculate standards of Augusta National for DeChambeau.
The big hitter was caught in a furious rant as he lost his rag over the state of the rough after sending his ball wayward.
On the 16th hole during Thursday’s first round, DeChambeau overshot his attempt out of a greenside bunker – a similar spot to his Masters demise – into the crowd on the other side of the green.
When he approached his ball and discovered the state of his lie, the 32-year-old unleashed a stream of whining.
The turf surrounding his ball was patchy, with the lie half resting on a tuft of grass and partly on exposed mud.
‘You got destroyed grass,’ the petulant golfer was heard moaning to the gathering of spectators in a video caught by golf content creators Perisgolf.
‘Oh, this is rough?’ he then sarcastically asked, adding, ‘definitely good to see,’ with an ironic thumbs up.
DeChambeau then asked for a second ruling opinion, tetchily shrugging his shoulders and gesturing to the patches of grass.
‘Guys, this is what we’re playing with apparently,’ he could be heard saying to someone off camera, before being captured in an animated discussion with his caddie.
‘You’ve got to have a rule here. It’s unbelievable, absolutely out of the question,’ DeChambeau proceeded to declare when the official arrived on the scene.
Under the rules of golf, a player must play the ball as it lies, if you hit into the rough. A player is not permitted to move, bend, or break anything growing or fixed to improve the lie.
And, despite DeChambeau’s tantrum, the official did not cave. DeChambeau eventually took his shot as it lay, managing to make it to within six feet of the hole before rolling his putt in.
The two-time major winner ultimately finished even-par for the round to share a spot at tied-29th heading into Friday.
It came after DeChambeau suffered a spectacular final-hole meltdown during the second round of the Masters that saw him miss the cut.
Following Thursday’s opening four-over 76, DeChambeau faced an uphill battle to make the cut. His first round had swiftly unraveled when he twice failed to get out of the sand at Amen Corner. That ended in a costly triple bogey and 24 hours later he suffered the same miserable fate.
His hacked approach shot from the pine straw on 18 found sand and from there, the carnage began.
He failed to hack it out of the steep-faced left greenside bunker on the first attempt. And his second was far from safe. While he managed to at least scoop it out of the sand this time, his ball landed on the front of the green and trundled all the way down to the fringe.
By the time the ball finally disappeared into the cup and he was put out of his misery, DeChambeau had carded a triple bogey and his Masters had come to a sudden end.
Meanwhile, similarly to DeChambeau’s golf, LIV Golf was thrust into turmoil this week amid claims on Wednesday that the rebel tour could come to an abrupt end.
Multiple agents told Daily Mail Sport that they were in the dark over whether the controversial four-year venture, which Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) has pumped almost $6billion into since 2022, was on the brink of being abandoned amid the ongoing war in the Middle East.
Tour executives were summoned for an emergency meeting in New York this week as fears continued to grow, but in an email sent to league staffers, LIV Golf CEO Scott O’Neil has stressed that staff plough on with their daily responsibilities.
According to multiple players and agents working on the tour, the expectation is that the PIF will continue pumping in cash until the conclusion of their 2026 campaign in Michigan on August 30 – hopes that appear to have been validated by O’Neil’s latest remarks.
Speaking at their ongoing tournament in Mexico, he told TNT Sports: ‘The reality is that you’re funded through the season, and then you work like crazy as a business to create a business and a business plan to keep us going.
‘But that’s not different from any other private equity-funded business in the history of mankind.’
Yet, the latter sentiment will only raise eyebrows, given the PIF governor Yasir Al-Rumayyan told players last month that his fund was committed to the league until 2032.
