Scottie Scheffler insisted it was incorrect for anybody to model Bryson DeChambeau a ‘cheat’ after the foundations saga which threatened to overshadow the Open Championship.
DeChambeau incurred a two-shot penalty after his second spherical following a prolonged and heated trade with R&A officers, who dominated that he had illegally flattened the grass round his ball on the fifth gap.
He was taunted by some spectators in the course of the third spherical yesterday, with just a few cries of ‘cheat’ being heard from the galleries.
However world No 1 Scheffler leapt to the defence of his fellow American and insisted it was incorrect for anybody to query DeChambeau’s character or integrity.
‘All I can actually say is I feel perhaps we should be a little bit bit extra strict in the best way that we’re policing guys,’ stated Scheffler.
‘But it surely’s a little bit little bit of a stability since you’ve acquired sure guys like a Bryson who each shot he hits goes to be proven on TV.
Bryson DeChambeau was taunted by spectators throughout a controversial week at Royal Birkdale
DeChambeau was given a two-stroke penalty by officers after his second spherical at The Open
‘When you could have digicam angles which might be far-off, issues can look completely different than they do once you’re proper there.
‘All I will say is Bryson, I’ve recognized him for a very long time, and he is quite a lot of issues, however he is undoubtedly not a cheater.
‘I’ve by no means seen him cheat as soon as, whether or not we had been having a placing contest on the placing inexperienced or chipping contest, or anytime we performed novice golf, I by no means noticed something suspicious.
‘Whenever you’re watching him there from that digicam angle, perhaps he was a contact careless round his ball, however I do not assume he did something deliberately.
‘We have seen penalties occur with – like, you keep in mind Jon Rahm a pair years in the past on the Memorial when his ball moved within the tough, and it is prefer to the bare eye, can you actually inform that?’
Scottie Scheffler insists that his fellow American DeChambeau is ‘undoubtedly not a cheater’
Scheffler appeared to point that there have been some situations the place gamers look to use loopholes within the guidelines and use them to their benefit.
‘I feel typically it is only a troublesome place within the sport of golf,’ he continued. ‘Once I was rising up, if this was the road, listed here are the foundations and this was the proper aspect of it.
‘And that is once you’re doing issues in opposition to the rule, you all the time tried to stray actually far that approach.
‘I really feel like at occasions, typically you see gamers perhaps push it a little bit bit additional than they need to.
‘I feel we have to type of get again to the traditions of the sport and perhaps we do must police issues a little bit bit extra stricter within the sport.
‘However like I stated, it is a robust line to cross. That is why it is laborious for me to say something like this. Bryson is a man that I’ve recognized for a very very long time. He is not a cheater.’
