PGA Championship 2026: With LIV's future uncertain, Bryson DeChambeau came to make a statement and made the wrong one
With LIV Golf's future uncertain, Bryson DeChambeau came to Philadelphia to make a statement. On Thursday at Aronimink, he made the wrong one by shooting an opening 76.
NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. — It had been bad from the start, and at the end it got worse. The ball was barely airborne before Bryson DeChambeau's right hand came off the club, watching in dazed resignation as his tee shot at Aronimink's par-3 eighth sailed wide right.
His ensuing chip flew over the green and his third was a chunk reserved for Thursday night men's leagues. When the ball finally found the hole it was a double-bogey 5, dropping the two-time major winner to a position on the leaderboard shared only with club pros. DeChambeau looked skyward before marching to the ninth, that look every golfer knows, when the train has left the tracks and the only remaining question is the body count.
He birdied his closing hole but walking off 18 with a six-over 76, mumbling about how poorly he'd played, the most popular man in golf is staring at his second straight missed major weekend. This course was supposed to suit him. Aronimink is a Donald Ross, the same architect DeChambeau once apologized to for bombing and gouging his Detroit layout, the same designer whose work at Pinehurst yielded DeChambeau a U.
S. Open title. Ross considered Aronimink his masterpiece.
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