Bryson DeChambeau had to fly back to Charlotte from Dallas for a tournament after he thought he missed cut
Bryson DeChambeau, playing in the Wells Fargo Championship this weekend in Charlotte at Quail Hallow, wasn't doing the greatest entering the weekend on Friday, when he shot 74 in the second round.
So he thought he was going to miss the cut and flew home to Dallas.
On the way, he got a text message from his agent that changed his itinerary, according to Golfweek.
“Hey, you’re 68th now.”
By the time the three-hour flight on the private aircraft touched down, he was inside the cut and more than 1,000 miles away from the course.
He joked in an Instagram post that he was going to get a quick workout in Dallas before heading back to Charlotte before saying he had thought he had missed the cut.
DeChambeau secured a new flight crew to head back to the Wells Fargo Championship for the third round. He got in one of his one-hour intense workouts. Had a nice dinner. Couple of protein shakes. Went to bed at 8 p.m. to wake up in time for his 2:45 a.m. CT eastward flight from Dallas.
The return flight landed at 6:20 a.m. local time and after a 30-minute drive to the course, he had a little more than one hour to make his 8:10 a.m. tee time.
“Put on my clothes in the locker room and headed out to the putting green,” the reigning U.S. Open Champion said. “This morning was not easy. But, you know, for whatever reason I just feel like the more weird things happen to me, the greater my resolve.”
DeChambeau continued his ascent up the leaderboard with five birdies through 17 holes on Saturday and was within three strokes of the lead. But he ran into turbulence on the 468-yard finishing hole when his drive was left in the rough and hit his second into a greenside bunker. He needed two to get out of the bunker and made double.
His 3-under-par 68 left him 1 under through 54 holes and five shots out of the lead with the leaders yet to tee off.
Afterward, he said it was an expensive mistake to have made.
“Way too expensive,” he said. “But the thing is, I have a chance to go make a good check this week and I think that would offset it. So if I was to not come back and withdraw, lose world ranking points and all that, I had to incur the cost. It’s my fault. I did (think of not coming back), but I said there’s no way I can do that. I can’t let down Wells Fargo, I can’t let down Quail Hollow.
“Oh, yeah. I learned my lesson, for sure.”
DiMeglio writes for Golfweek and Sykes writes for For the Win