• Californian remorseful after claiming club ‘sucked’
• ‘I’m very, very sorry. I misspoke in a heated moment’
A contrite Bryson DeChambeau offered a profuse apology for an Open Championship outburst that triggered a furious and unprecedented rebuke from his equipment manufacturer. DeChambeau’s insistence, after his first round at Royal St George’s, that his driver “sucked” led to Cobra’s tour operations manager to call the comments “stupid” and say the former US Open champion was behaving “like an eight-year-old”. Cobra and DeChambeau have been seeking driver solutions, based on the golfer’s ferocious swing speed.
After a second round of 70, which was sufficient for DeChambeau to make the Open cut by a shot, the Californian was remorseful. “I made a mistake and as time goes on I’ll look back on this as a growing moment for me personally,” DeChambeau said. “Hopefully I can make the right things go on from here on out. I didn’t mean it, it was in a heated situation and I feel really bad about it.
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