The Open's Hostage Crisis: When Golf's Entitlement Culture Goes Too Far The drama that unfolded at Royal Birkdale on Friday evening was a perfect storm of entitlement and ego.
Bryson DeChambeau's rules fiasco left many in the golfing community bewildered, wondering how one man could create so much chaos with a single swing.
At the heart of this controversy is DeChambeau's behavior on the fifth hole, where he deliberately improved his backswing by stepping into the ball. R&A officials slapped him with a two shot penalty under Rule 8.