Bryson DeChambeau turned a missed cut into a 34-minute explanation. A week after shooting 70-75 at the U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills and missing the weekend by one shot, he posted a video that went shot by shot through both rounds.
He did not speak with the assembled media after the tournament. Instead, he used his YouTube channel to break down what went wrong and why he thought his play was not a true reflection of where his game is right now.
Shinnecock Hills turned into a review
DeChambeau opened by saying, "I’ve been wanting to do this for a little bit now". He added, "I think it’s important for you guys, especially given that I show myself off in different ways, whether it’s entertaining on YouTube or playing professional golf, I want to do my best in every single event, and the way I’ve played recently is not a true reflection. Unfortunately, I’ve been working incredibly hard, and sometimes it just doesn’t pan out, which kind of sucks, and that’s golf, that’s life."
The video was not a general recap. He walked through every shot of his two rounds at Shinnecock Hills and pointed to the spots where the round got away from him. One of his favorite moments came on the 12th hole, where he hit his new TaylorMade prototype driver 427 yards, sent the ball onto the road that intersects the hole and still made birdie.
That one swing sat beside the rest of the card. He finished the first round at even par after a 26-foot putt for bogey on his final hole, and then the second round left him one shot short of the cut line.
Wedges and timing
The biggest mechanical issue he named was his wedge play. "That’s one of the things I have to figure out with my wedges," he said while discussing an approach shot on Shinnecock Hills' first hole. "Sometimes they feel like it slips on the face and it’s probably a shaft to head weight combo. So, that’s what I’m working on to figure that out right now."
He also traced part of the problem to Friday morning. "I get to the range on Friday, and all of a sudden, something feels a little off with my timing in regards to how I’m jumping off the ground to get the club to come out," he said. "You know, those little right misses that I was talking about became more pronounced. I couldn’t feel like the club was naturally turning over effortlessly. And yeah, it showed on nine and I missed it horribly right. Felt late."
After that first round, he summed up the state of the game in one line: "I’m just in a weird spot". Earlier in the year, he had already put together a major-championship stretch that left him chasing answers, and the video gives the clearest public explanation yet for why a two-time U.S. Open champion left Long Island with another missed weekend.
The practical takeaway is simple: he has identified wedges and timing as the next fixes, but not the exact equipment change or swing change. The round-by-round review shows the size of the gap between the scorecard and the swing work still ahead.
