Bryson DeChambeau has enjoyed a superb year in golf, winning his second US Open in June having almost pipped Xander Schauffele to the post at May’s PGA Championship.
His Masters tilt wasn’t bad, either, remaining in contention throughout the week before slightly wilting on Sunday to end in a tie for sixth. On the flip side, a disappointing missed cut at The Open was an anomaly compared with the rest of his 2024.
In the LIV Golf League, DeChambeau has finished in the top-10 six times from 11 starts and has led his Crushers GC to the top of the team standings so far after a couple of squad successes early on.
Nevertheless, the 30-year-old did not make Team USA’s four-man Olympic golf squad for the 60-player field at Paris 2024. The reason for this is simply because he did not qualify.
Olympic qualification was carried out across a two-year period which ended on June 17. Each OWGR-eligible event offered up points which ultimately fed into an average score at the culmination of the qualifying window.
Wyndham Clark (far left), Scottie Scheffler (left), Collin Morikawa (right), and Xander Schauffele (far right) smile in their Team USA Olympic golf gear
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Given LIV’s inability to offer world-ranking points as part of its tournaments, that greatly limited DeChambeau’s chance of accumulating OGR points and meant he needed to cash in at the Majors if he stood any chance – a fact that was criticized by Carlos Ortiz in his pre-Olympic press conference.
The other significant issue in the two-time Major champion’s way was that he represents the strongest golfing country – certainly in the men’s game – on the planet.
A maximum of four golfers per nation inside the world’s top-15 were eligible to compete at Le Golf National this week. After that, a maximum of two competitors per nation outside of the world’s top-15 could qualify, so long as that country did not already have at least two players inside the OWGR’s top bracket.
On Team USA, World No.1 Scottie Scheffler, was joined by Xander Schauffele (then-World No.3), Wyndham Clark (World No.5), and Collin Morikawa (World No.7) as DeChambeau and World No.8 Patrick Cantlay agonizingly missed out.
After failing to fulfil his Olympic dream in France, DeChambeau wrote on social media to say that “nothing would…
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