DeChambeau: ‘I was unlucky at the US Open’

The US Open 2021 will take place on the South Torrey Pines par71 field, closing the curtain on the morning of June 21, Vietnam time. After 54 holes, DeChambeau and Rory McIlroy stood in T4 with a score of -3, two strokes behind the top of the table. Through the last 10 holes, DeChambeau took first place thanks to two birdies and no bogey for 10 holes.

“The core issue is luck. I don’t know who slipped at the top of the 13th hole, but I slipped there two days in a row. That’s it, after the shot is over, the ball is in a bad place. If it doesn’t lose the pole, that shot goes about 1.5 meters, across the asphalt for golf carts. Okay, then it’s easy to get on the green on the second shot. After that, it was time for the audience to go to the fairway on hole 13 to act. I agree that the US Open is notoriously difficult, but such bad luck is normal in life,” DeChambeau said on June 30 at a press conference before Rocket Mortgage Classic – the PGA Tour event in which he will defend the title from today 1/7 to 4/7.

On the closing day of the 121st US Open, DeChambeau repeatedly bogey holes 11 and 12, double bogey on hole 13. After he swung his second shot on this hole, the fan went out to the fairway to dance with a stick, and was then overpowered by the security team. regime. The harasser was escorted off the field, and DeChambeau swung his third shot into the bunker. And after a double bogey at the 13th hole, DeChambeau no longer has a chance to win, according to the organizers’ forecast.

DeChambeau held par all three of the next three rounds and then quadruple bogey on the 17th hole. This hole was par4 but the player born in 1993 lost a total of eight strokes. He closed the round at 77 strokes, finished T26 with +3 and Jon Rahm became the new champion at -6, after birdieing the last two holes.

At the US Open 2020, DeChambeau finished at -6 – the best negative level in the history of US Open champions on West Winged Foot. The runner-up, Matthew Wolff, only got even par. Yesterday, DeChambeau recalled the luck in this victory.

“On the last 14-day hole, I hit a dangerous spot on the left of the green and the target was on the same side, near the edge. From that position, I had to chip uphill, aiming for about six meters. The clubhead ‘ground’ on that shot. but luckily the ball just crossed the edge of the green and rolled another three yards. The rest I put in, then led Matthew four. We need to be lucky to win. It’s all the same. The problem is that people don’t. realize how important the element of luck is in the championship,” he said.

DeChambeau has won eight PGA Tour titles, including the major US Open, over five years as a professional. This season, he shot the farthest in the world’s most exciting golf arena, averaging 322.4 yards. With sixth place in OWGR earlier this week, DeChambeau officially entered the US golf team for the upcoming Tokyo Olympics.

Quoc Huy