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Bryson DeChambeau was handed a two-shot penalty at the Open on Friday, after he was alleged to have improved his lie by treading on deep grass around his ball. <\/p>\n

As joint-leaders Lucas Herbert and Sam Burns both shot record rounds of 62, becoming just the sixth and seventh men in history to do so at a major, DeChambeau\u2019s evening brought far less to celebrate.<\/p>\n

The American had just finished his round with back-to-back birdies for a score of 66, one behind Herbert at the time, but after the round, he was driven to the fifth hole by officials. <\/p>\n

\"BrysonBryson DeChambeau after visiting the recorders hut at Royal Birkdale (Reuters)<\/p>\n

There, DeChambeau had earlier struck the ball into high grass to the right of the hole, and officials believed he had accidentally affected his lie by treading around on the grass and figuring out his best approach.<\/p>\n

DeChambeau, 32, was visibly aggravated by his conversation with the officials, and he was later brought into the recorders hut at Royal Birkdale, where some time was spent \u2013 presumably \u2013 in further debate.<\/p>\n

When he emerged, the golfer said to nearby media, \u201cAre you guys having a great night? I\u2019m having a great night,\u201d per the BBC. <\/p>\n

He would not comment on whether he would play on Saturday, which he would have been forbidden from doing, had he refused his penalty.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m off to hit some balls,\u201d he added, before visiting the driving range.<\/p>\n

Later, rules official Grant Moir said, \u201cBryson has been penalised two strokes for inadvertently improving the area of intended backswing on fifth hole,\u201d an action that violated rule 8.1.<\/p>\n

Earlier, the BBC had reported a comment from DP World Tour rules referee Graeme Storm, who said: \u201cHe\u2019s improved the line of play for his club to be able to hit the golf ball. That\u2019s what they\u2019re investigating.<\/p>\n

\"SamSam Burns (pictured) and Lucas Herbert share the lead heading into Saturday (PA Wire)<\/p>\n

\u201cWhether that\u2019s intentional doesn’t really matter. If you improve your line of play, you\u2019re improving your lie, so basically you get the general penalty of two shots.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom what video evidence I\u2019ve seen, it looked like he\u2019s improved his line of play by stepping back on the long grass behind his line of play, because he\u2019s looked down at it. He should get the general penalty, which is two shots.\u201d<\/p>\n

DeChambeau\u2019s penalty leaves the two-time US Open champion on 5-under-par overall, three behind leaders Herbert and Burns.<\/p>\n

Also on Friday, Jon Rahm escaped with just a warning after throwing his club in frustration. He carded 67 to sit four shots off the lead.<\/p>\n

\"AA frustrated Jon Rahm (Getty)<\/p>\n

“I didn\u2019t think about it until I saw [the official] on 17, and when he was walking up to me, I knew exactly what it was for,\u201d Rahm said, \u201cbut I didn\u2019t think about it in the moment.<\/p>\n

\u201cI shouldn\u2019t have reacted that way, but I did. I mean, you guys are acting like it\u2019s every single hole. I get it; I had a moment.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m definitely more intense and passionate than a lot of the players out here, especially at work, but I wasn\u2019t thinking about it. It\u2019s not like I\u2019m going to… If I try to alter who I am too much, it might cost me a little bit on the course. <\/p>\n

\u201cBut certainly \u200cshouldn\u2019t have moments like \u200bthe one on 15; I get it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"csco_display_header_overlay":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_volume":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[233,1428,258,1430,15,237,228,77,234,1074,246,47,259,1589,227,570,261,257],"class_list":["post-3564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sam-burns","tag-color-image","tag-day-2","tag-england","tag-facial-expression","tag-golf","tag-green-golf-course","tag-horizontal","tag-jon-rahm","tag-photography","tag-putting-golf","tag-royal-birkdale-golf-club","tag-sam-burns","tag-southport-england","tag-spain","tag-sport","tag-taking-a-shot-sport","tag-the-majors-golf","tag-uk","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/pros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/pros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/pros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/pros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/pros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/pros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/pros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/pros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/pros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/pros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}