Bryson DeChambeau explains the big news behind the latest MC

Bryson DeChambeau arrived at the US Open at Shinnecock Hills hoping to play the weekend in a major tournament for the first time in 2026. The two-time US Open champion put in Friday’s Masters to leave Augusta ahead and has never had a chance at the PGA Championship at Aronimink.

Still, DeChambeau said he’s confident in the state of his game since arriving on Long Island. A few days later, DeChambeau was packing early after shooting 70-75 (five over) to miss the cut by one shot.

DeChambeau did not speak to the assembled media after missing the weekend at Shinnecock. But a week later, the Crushers leader and YouTube content king posted a 34-minute video on his channel where he went over all of his two shortstops at Shinnecock and explained why he didn’t do well in the majors this year.

“I’ve been wanting to do this for a while,” DeChambeu said as he began the video. “I think it’s important for you guys, especially when I’m showing myself in different ways, whether it’s for fun on YouTube or playing professional golf, I want to do my best in every single event, and the way I’ve been playing lately is not a reflection of the truth. Unfortunately, I’ve been working incredibly hard, and sometimes it doesn’t work out, which is what golf is, and that’s the life of golf.”

Most of DeChambeau’s video explains how the softness of the greens has confused him, or how the wind didn’t hit certain shots the way he wanted or how he misread certain putts. He said “one of his favorite moments” of the tournament was his first drive with his new TaylorMade driver on the 12th hole. DeChambeau’s drive on the par 4 hit the fairway across the hole and landed 427 yards away. He continued to make a bird.

When DeChambeau reaches Shinnecock’s first hole (the 10th of his first round), he notices the issue he’s been working to find. DeChambeau’s drive found the fairway, but his approach landed to the left of his target. The shot went over the top, but it showed one thing DeChambeau has been struggling with.

“That’s one of the things I have to think about with my wedges,” DeChambeau said. “Sometimes they feel like it’s sliding on the face and maybe it’s the core of the body weight.

DeChambeau played his first 17 holes in one under par and looks set to add to the mix at another US Open.

But his problems started to come to light on Friday. With the first round called due to darkness, DeChambeau had to tee off early Friday to finish the last hole of his first round and then go back to play the second. While warming up the range, his swing was felt. It was a problem he couldn’t solve – one he had struggled with for some time.

“However, this is a strange place,” DeChambeau said Friday morning. “I get to the range on Friday, and all of a sudden, there’s something wrong with my timing about how I’m swinging down to get the club out. You know, those little mistakes I was talking about really stood out. I didn’t feel like the club was swinging effortlessly. And yes, it showed at nine o’clock.”

DeChambeau’s drive on the final hole of his first round came off the right and into the fescue. He finally made a 26-foot putt for bogey to end the first round in par.

“I’m in a weird place,” DeChambeau said after his first round. “So, I had a little bit of a frustrated moment after that. But then, I’m picking myself up and going out and I still can’t figure it out. I still don’t know what’s going on with my golf game. It feels good. It’s not as bad as it was the day before.”

DeChambeau’s competition was quickly revealed at the start of his second round. He opened with pars on 1 and 2 and then made back-to-back double bogeys to drop to five in the tournament.

“That was my tournament,” DeChambeau said. “That was really a tournament. If I finish in one place, from all that, if I finish in one place, am I going to come back seven? Something like that. You know, a lot of people were in and they were alone. [finished] Top 10 or have a good weekend. You just can’t do that. It was really unfortunate how this whole situation turned out. I didn’t feel like I played bad for that to happen, but you can’t do that in the majors. You can’t do two doubles in a row. You just can’t do that.”

DeChambeau went on to discuss his swing issues, which he appeared to be struggling with on the course at the PGA Championship at Aronimink, when he hit a smoky hook coming out of the ninth game.

“Cut the slap,” DeChambeau said. “I couldn’t time my golf swing for some reason and it wouldn’t unload. The club head wouldn’t come up. It felt like it was being pulled weird and it wouldn’t get the head out.”

The video ends with DeChambeau being asked a few questions off-screen, the same questions he would have faced in the media if he had taken a few minutes to stop and answer them.

“It’s not good enough for golf,” DeChambeau said of his missed major cuts. “We can say it’s unfortunate. We can say, bad judgment. We can say bad swings and all that. But in the end it comes down to me making better decisions, having a few things go my way, and being more comfortable with the golf ball and not holding it back and knowing why I have that, knowing why I’m missing, then I work faster with my codges, work better, work better. So even if I wasn’t very successful – I was still first and driving off the tee, which is my craziness which is gotta work on it, man.

Unlike Jon Rahm, DeChambeau has been playing a key role in securing outside investment for LIV Golf. Asked if his focus on YouTube and the future of LIV affects his game in the majors, DeChambeau dismissed that idea, saying that he still doesn’t feel as good as he used to play ball and that he and his team are trying to recreate the feeling he had when he shot 58 at the LIV Greenbrier in 2023 while noting that he wasn’t the best in the world. Things are changing fast in professional golf.

“Everybody’s going to have an opinion about it,” DeChambeau said. “But I can tell you that I’ve been working harder on my game this past year after the Masters than I have in the last three, four years. The effort I’ve put into understanding my golf swing and what makes that thing come out – what makes a golf club come out effectively and efficiently is very confusing to me. But I hadn’t thought about that. I’ve found out why I work so well with the club. At the Greenbrier.

“Put one foot in front of the other and keep going,” DeChambeau said to end the video. “There’s not much more I can do than that. Last year, before the US Open, I was one of the best tournament players in the world. Come a year later, everyone says I’m terrible. That’s just the way it is. Life, golf. Things don’t always go your way. But guess what? Keep going.”

With LIV Golf on hiatus, DeChambeau’s next chance to “move on” will come at the Open Championship at Royal Birkdale, where he will try not to miss all four major cuts in 2026.