Bryson DeChambeau fired a final-round 64 at Royal Portrush for a remarkable comeback from his birdie-less opening round of 78.
PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland – Bryson DeChambeau fired a final-round 64 at Royal Portrush for a remarkable comeback from his birdie-less opening round of 78. He recorded a remarkable 19 birdies over the final three days and rallied for a top-10 finish at the 2025 British Open. It all but locked up his spot on the 12-man U.S. Ryder Cup team, which will face Team Europe and attempt to win back the Cup in late September.
DeChambeau, who was on the winning U.S. side in 2021 at Whistling Straits but left off the team that got routed in Rome in 2023, said he can’t wait for Bethpage Back.
“I hope I can bring a lot of energy and a tsunami of a crowd that's going to be rooting for Team USA,” he said.
DeChambeau still has some LIV Golf events ahead of the Ryder Cup, including this coming week in London, but he’s already thinking about the Ryder Cup. Asked if he spent any time with U.S. Captain Keegan Bradley this week, he said, “I talked with him briefly, and then he put something in our lockers that was pretty inspirational.”
He declined to share what exactly Bradley left in his locker, but J.J. Spaun mentioned that he drew inspiration from something Bradley put in his locker at the U.S. Open.
Speaking on the Subpar Podcast, Spaun said, “Keegan put like a printed out picture of the U.S. Ryder Cup bag with my name on it — and he did it to all the other guys that could potentially make the team at Oakmont — and he put like, ‘Bring you ego.’ Stuck it in my locker and every time I opened my locker, I saw it. Every day. Open locker. See it there. It was just one of those things that kept kind of being pinged into my brain that was like, ‘alright, Ryder Cup. Let’s go. Bring your ego.’ I’m not an egotistcal person, but I think that more tapped into my self-belief.”
That’s a tactic that Bradley, a diehard New England Patriots fans, learned from the team’s former football coach, the legendary Bill Belichick. DeChambeau called what Bradley did at the British Open "personal," but added, “It meant a lot.”
The U.S. has lost eight of the last 10 Ryder Cups. “This year’s no joke,” DeChambeau said. “We’re tired of it. We’re tired of losing.”
This article originally appeared on Golfweek: Bryson DeChambeau all but locks up Ryder Cup spot at British Open
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