Bryson DeChambeau says he has not been playing “good enough golf” as the reason for why he’s missed three straight cuts in majors this season.
The latest disappointment came earlier this month on Long Island when he missed the cut at the U.S. Open, finishing the first two days of the tournament 5-over.
After more than a week of silence, DeChambeau took to his YouTube channel to make his first extensive comments about the U.S. Open disaster and his struggles at majors this year.
“Not good enough golf,” DeChambeau said in the video about how he’s missed three straight cuts at majors. “We could say it’s unlucky, we could say bad judgment, we could say bad swings and all that, but ultimately it comes down to me making better decisions. Having a couple of things go more my way and me being more comfortable over the golf ball and not holding it off.
“And knowing why I had that miss, knowing why I’m missing it, and then working on speed with my putting, working on my wedges, getting a better combo so it’s not as erratic, even though I wasn’t hitting it my best off the tee, I was still No.1 in driving off the tee, which is crazy.”
Ultimately, DeChambeau said it was his iron play that needed to improve going forward.
DeChambeau has won a pair of LIV Golf events this season and finished in the top three of three others, but his performances in some of the sport’s biggest events have raised questions.
He remains one of the most recognizable names in golf and denied that the situation with LIV — funding from the Saudi Public Investment Fund will come to an end after this season, throwing the league’s future in doubt — or his golf content on social media has impacted his game.
He also denied thhe cares more about content than his pro golf career.
“Look, everybody’s going to have their opinion on it, but I can tell you I’ve been working harder on my game this past year after the Masters than I have in the past three, four years,” DeChambeau said. “The amount of effort I’ve put into understanding my golf swing and what makes the golf club come out more effectively, more efficiently, is mind-boggling. But I haven’t figured it out.”
DeChambeau ended the video by trying to keep his head up after the tough way 2026 has gone for him.
“I put one foot in front of the other and keep going,” he said. “There’s not much more I can do than that. Just last year, this time, before the US Open, I was one of the best major championship performers in the world. Come one year later, everybody says I’m the worst. It just is what it is. Life, it’s golf. Things don’t always go your way. But guess what, keep going. Humbling. Sucks to talk about this, but you know what, I just had to get it out there.”