Bryson DeChambeau delivers hilarious put-down to Rory McIlroy over US Open collapse
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The pair are competing in The Showdown in Las Vegas this week and DeChambeau won the trash talk battle with McIlroy. Bryson DeChambeau delivered a hilarious put-down to Rory McIlroy over his US Open collapse earlier this year, saying “you kind of did it to yourself.”.
McIlroy’s decade-long major drought looked like it may finally be coming to an end back in June at Pinehurst, when he led the US Open with just four holes to go. However, the Northern Irishman collapsed with three bogeys in those final four holes, including failing to make a three-foot putt having not missed one from that close all season. It allowed DeChambeau to sneak in and take the title by a single stroke, which was sealed with an out-of-this-world bunker shot on the 18th to scramble a par save and avoid a play-off with McIlroy.
This week, the pair are taking part in The Showdown – an exhibition event in Las Vegas where McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler take on DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka in a PGA Tour vs LIV Golf match. The trash talk has already been flowing and when the players were practising their chipping while mic’d up in front of a crowd on the range on Monday, DeChambeau delivered a zinger.
McIlroy was saying how he’d “like to go up against Bryson to try and get him back for what he did to me at the US Open” and, quick as a flash, the American quipped: “To be fair, you kind of did it to yourself.”. The trash talking already starting at Shadow Creek 😅#LIVGolf pic.twitter.com/zB0bM3gWCn.
