A day after the R&A issued a two-stroke penalty to Bryson DeChambeau at the Open Championship for inadvertently improving the area of his swing path for his second shot on the fifth hole during the second round, R&A CEO Mark Darbon shed a little more light on how the penalty came to be in an interview with BBC Radio.
Joaquin Niemann became the first player in major championship history to receive a two-stroke penalty for throwing a club, then responded with rounds of 65 and 66 to nearly pull off an extraordinary comeback at the 2026 US Open.
Cameras had a close-up view of Lowry’s ball in the rough as he took a practice swing at the 12th hole, and the ball visibly moved after his iron passed through the nearby grass.
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