Bryson DeChambeau wins 2nd U.S. Open, edging Rory McIlroy

PINEHURST, N.C. — LIV Golf League captain Bryson DeChambeau is a U.S. Open champion once more.

In the meantime, PGA Tour star Rory McIlroy’s almost 10-year drought with out a main championship victory will go on, after he endured essentially the most painful of all his near-misses within the last spherical of the 124th U.S. Open at Pinehurst No. 2 on Sunday.

After McIlroy missed a brief par putt for the second time within the last three holes on No. 18, DeChambeau hit a troublesome second shot out of the native grass — and close to a tree root — throughout the golf green right into a bunker. From 55 yards away, he chipped to about 4 ft and sunk a par putt to complete 6 underneath, 1 shot higher than McIlroy.

“I can not imagine that up and down on the final. Most likely the perfect shot of my life,” DeChambeau mentioned.

With DeChambeau and McIlroy tied at 6 underneath — and McIlroy enjoying within the group in entrance of the ultimate one — each gamers pulled their tee photographs into the unpredictable native space close to the grandstand on the left of the golf green on No. 18.

McIlroy’s ball got here to relaxation behind a big clump of wiregrass about 123 yards from the opening. His solely possibility was to blast the ball by the grass and up the golf green. His strategy stopped simply wanting the inexperienced. He chipped to 4 ft and missed the par putt. He made a brief bogey putt and will solely watch DeChambeau end.

DeChambeau, the 2020 U.S. Open champion at Winged Foot Golf Membership in New York, began the ultimate spherical with a 3-stroke lead. He briefly misplaced the result in McIlroy on the again 9 earlier than pulling it out ultimately.

DeChambeau carded a 1-over 71 within the last spherical. He’s the primary U.S. Open champion to report a spherical over par within the last spherical since Lucas Glover in 2009.

McIlroy posted a 1-under 69 and completed runner-up in a significant for the fourth time in his profession.

Tony Finau (3-under 67) and Patrick Cantlay (even-par 70) tied for third at 4 underneath. Matthieu Pavon, who was making an attempt to grow to be the primary golfer from France to win the U.S. Open, was fifth after posting a 1-over 71 on Sunday.

The primary U.S. Open performed at Pinehurst No. 2 in a decade shall be remembered as a lot for McIlroy’s collapse as DeChambeau’s victory. McIlroy was making an attempt to win his first main championship for the reason that 2014 PGA Championship at Valhalla Golf Membership in Louisville, Kentucky.

After lastly wrestling the lead from DeChambeau with birdies on Nos. 9, 10, 12 and 13 to grow to be the primary golfer to get to eight underneath, McIlroy had probably the most forgettable finishes of any final-round chief in a significant.

McIlroy carded bogeys on Nos. 15, 16 and 18 to fall again to five underneath. On the par-3 fifteenth, he blasted his tee shot over the inexperienced and could not rise up and down for par.

After DeChambeau missed a 4-foot par putt on No. 15 to offer McIlroy a 1-shot lead, McIlroy inexplicably hit a 2 ½-footer for par on No. 16 too onerous and it lipped out. He hadn’t missed a putt inside 3 ft all season.