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After struggling just to make the cut at the Masters, Bryson DeChambeau said he wasn’t feeling well and even got himself tested for Covid-19 again to make sure it wasn’t anything serious.
DeChambeau, who was the betting favorite to win the Masters after a dominating win at the US Open, closed his second round on Saturday morning (Sunday NZ) with a 74 of two out of 74.
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Bryson DeChambeau hits from the rough on the seventh hole of his second round.
That left him par 144 through 36 holes, right at the cutoff line and nine shots off the head.
“It’s not good, to say the least,” DeChambeau said before returning to the third round. “As I continued to progress through the round, I started to feel a bit dizzy. I don’t know what was happening, something weird. “
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DeChambeau played 12 holes in the second round on Friday before play was stopped for darkness. He was then tested to make sure he did not have the disease caused by the coronavirus.
It was negative.
“I had to do the right thing and make sure there was nothing more serious than that,” he said. “I don’t know what it is or what happened, but these last two days I have felt really, really strange and not 100 percent.”
DeChambeau, who is capable of hitting units approaching 400 yards, raised his eyebrows when he said he considered the pair at Augusta National to be 67 instead of 72.
The burly player has not lived up to his boasts.
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Bryson DeChambeau returns to the third tee to hit again after his ball was lost during the second round.
DeChambeau had a double 7 bogey on the 13th hole Thursday when he hit his ball in some azalea bushes. He took another 7 on Friday at No. 3, a triple bogey on the shortest par 4 on the course, when his ball dug deep into the wet rough and couldn’t be found within the 3-minute time limit.
“I’m feeling a little bored and numb, I’m just not fully aware of everything, and I’m making some dumb and dumb mistakes for sure,” DeChambeau said.
A range guard found the lost ball about 10 minutes after DeChambeau took a penalty and hit another tee shot, which seemed to shake the player even more.
“I mean, it definitely blows your mind when the guy goes and hands you the ball in fourth tee, ‘Oh, I found it,'” DeChambeau said. “You know, I fight every time we know he’s in that area and it’s all wet and it’s a plugged lie, guaranteed.
“I’m like, ‘Well, I know it’s in this area that’s covered, so I think I’d get some relief,’ but clearly not. Three minutes were up so I took a penalty and went back to the tee and proceeded to hit the same spot and had a really bad lie after that. “
DeChambeau was clearly shaken for the first two rounds.
“It seems like a lot of things are not going the right way,” he said. “I have certainly played worse golf than this and won golf tournaments. So, you know, it’s one of those things where it’s golf. You can’t control everything as much as you try. “
DeChambeau planned to play the final two rounds even though he still felt bad. He said he intended to conduct more extensive testing after the Masters.
“Every time I bend down and get back up, I would like to lose my posture a little,” he said. “I do not know what is happening. I have to go get a blood test, get a checkup and find out what’s going on this offseason. “
DeChambeau barely made the cut after bogeying the final two holes.
But he seemed more concerned about his health than his golf game.
“There is something in my stomach that is just not right,” he said. “It’s more like (being) very dizzy, and I have a pain in my stomach, so I don’t know. Just some weird things going on.”
