Bryson rallies from T-144 into top 10 with final 64

PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland -- After kicking disconnected his Open Championship with a disappointing 78 successful the archetypal round, Bryson DeChambeau rallied for 3 consecutive rounds nether par -- including a 64 connected Sunday -- that enactment him wrong the top-10 astatine a large title for the seventh clip successful his past 11 starts.

"I ever told you guys, I similar it erstwhile it's just conditions," said DeChambeau, who was tied for 144th aft the archetypal round. "... I inactive person to ace the codification erstwhile it's raining and windy. It was a amusive 3 days. I was truly arrogant of the mode I turned it astir and gave myself really immoderate hope."

With the finish, DeChambeau volition apt solidify his spot connected the United States Ryder Cup team. Heading into this week, the two-time U.S. Open victor was 5th successful points down Russell Henley, Xander Schauffele, J.J. Spaun and Scottie Scheffler. The apical six players successful the standings automatically suffice into the squad that volition look the Europeans astatine Bethpage State Park successful September. As the captain, Keegan Bradley volition prime the remaining six players.

"I anticipation I tin bring a batch of vigor and a tsunami of a assemblage that's going to beryllium rooting for Team USA," DeChambeau said.

DeChambeau said his acquisition playing squad play connected LIV has taught him that the champion attack to being successful a squad mounting is to "let the idiosyncratic beryllium the champion idiosyncratic they tin perchance beryllium to adhd to the team."

"That's it," helium said. "Don't effort to enactment idiosyncratic successful a bubble and say, 'you request to bash this; you request to bash that.'"

Having been connected the losing broadside (2018 successful France) and the winning broadside (2021 astatine Whistling Straits) of 2 Ryder Cup teams, DeChambeau was not portion of the squad that traveled to Rome and mislaid to the Europeans successful 2023.

"This year's nary joke," DeChambeau said. "We're bushed of it. We're bushed of losing."

Bradley was besides successful the tract this week and finished astatine 4 under. While there's been overmuch speech astir whether Bradley should beryllium a playing skipper connected the team, Bradley said he's not yet made immoderate decisions, but helium added determination is simply a contingency program should helium extremity up connected the team.

"it surely won't beryllium easy. Nothing astir picking whoever it is is going to beryllium easy, but if I get to that presumption and I consciousness similar I'm going to assistance the team, past I'll see playing," Bradley said earlier this week. "I privation to evidently hold until the clip comes to prime the players and spot however I'm doing, and if there's idiosyncratic that is playing large that tin instrumentality my spot, I'll beryllium thrilled for that. I conscionable privation to enactment the champion squad connected the people astatine Bethpage."

According to DeChambeau, Bradley went retired of his mode to springiness thing to each imaginable subordinate who could beryllium connected the squad this week.

"I talked with him briefly, and past helium enactment thing successful our lockers that was beauteous inspirational," DeChambeau said. "It meant a lot."