DeChambeau Misses Masters Cut After Final-Hole Meltdown, 3D-Printed Club Goes Unused
The two-time U.S. Open champion stood three over on the 18th tee needing only a bogey to make the weekend — and walked off with a triple bogey seven.
Bryson DeChambeau arrived at Augusta National this week with a homemade 5-iron, back-to-back LIV Golf victories, and the confidence of a man who had finished in the top ten in each of his last two Masters appearances. He left Friday without a weekend tee time, the victim of his own worst habit: the bunker.
DeChambeau was at three over for the tournament after a birdie at the 15th hole on Friday, sitting inside the cutline of four over. Then disaster struck at the 18th. His drive found the woods right. A punch-out rolled into a greenside bunker. His first bunker shot failed to clear the lip. His second reached the green and rolled back off the front. He walked off with a triple bogey seven and finished at six over — missing the cut by two strokes.
It was the same hole that had defined his week from the start. A day earlier, at the par-four 11th hole in Round 1, DeChambeau struggled to escape a bunker and carded another triple bogey, one of only two birdies all day in a four-over 76. Two rounds, two bunker implosions, same result.
The cut fell at four over. Of the 91-player field, 54 will play the weekend. DeChambeau is not among them, marking his first missed cut at Augusta since 2023.
The timing made it worse. A year ago, DeChambeau stood in the final Sunday pairing alongside eventual champion Rory McIlroy before fading to a tie for fifth. He was one of the most heavily wagered players heading into this week, a contender on paper who never got going.
The 3D-printed 5-iron — the story he had generated before a ball was struck — did not save him. DeChambeau said he used the club only once in the opening round, off the tee at the par-four seventh, where it traveled 258 yards into the left side of the fairway. Asked how it was treating him, he said: "It was great on seven."
That was the extent of the club's Masters debut. DeChambeau had told ESPN on Wednesday that the iron, which he fabricated himself using a 3D printer, was "finally ready." He said the process takes roughly eight hours to print and several more to machine and cut the grooves. The USGA had to approve the club before he could use it in competition. He did make minor tweaks to bring it into conformance before the week began.
The iron earned one fairway at Augusta. DeChambeau earned two bunker triple bogeys and a plane ticket home.
He was not the only notable departure. Former Masters champions Bubba Watson and Danny Willett also missed the cut, as did reigning U.S. Open champion J.J. Spaun, world No. 8 Robert MacIntyre, and Akshay Bhatia, who holed out for birdie at 17 only to make double bogey at 18.
DeChambeau, who has been under contract with LIV Golf since 2022, is still searching for his first green jacket. His finishes at Augusta have trended upward in recent years — tied for sixth in 2024, tied for fifth in 2025 — after missing the cut in 2022 and 2023. Friday snapped that trajectory.
After his round, a reporter pressed him one final time about the 3D-printing process and whether he planned to build more clubs. "That's a longer conversation," DeChambeau said. "It's not for here."
Neither, as it turned out, was his Masters.
