Bryson DeChambeau not pleased with 3D-printed club question after eventful day at Augusta National

After a unsmooth archetypal circular astatine Augusta National connected Thursday, Bryson DeChambeau did not look excessively pleased erstwhile helium was asked astir his 3D-printed 5-iron.

The two-time U.S. Open champion had an eventful archetypal circular astatine the Masters, hitting a patron with a tee changeable connected the sixth spread earlier taking 3 abstracted bunker shots connected the 11th.

After the round, helium had to look the media, wherever helium was asked astir the process of making his peculiar nine different than the driver.

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Bryson DeChambeau reacts to his tee changeable connected the 12th spread during the archetypal circular of the Masters Tournament astatine Augusta National Golf Club successful Augusta, Georgia, connected April 9, 2026. (Grace Smith-Imagn Images)

DeChambeau said it's astir a "day-and-a-half" process to marque a club, truthful erstwhile helium was asked if helium "would privation to" spell done the process of making different one, it was a hard no.

"Pfft, no. It has to beryllium USGA-conforming. There's a full process you person to spell through," helium said.

It’s a nine helium built himself.

"There's this quality that I person astir myself wherever innovation is simply a wont of mine, and I truly find and instrumentality pridefulness successful that quality to larn — adjacent done failure, adjacent done making a atrocious determination oregon a bully determination — what I tin get from that," he told ESPN.

Bryson DeChambeau hits his tee changeable connected the 12th spread during the archetypal circular of the Masters astatine Augusta National Golf Club successful Augusta, Georgia, connected April 9, 2026. (Eric Gay/AP Photo)

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"We'll spot wherever it goes. We'll spot wherever it takes me. All I could accidental present is, if I don't enactment them successful the bag, it's my responsibility now."

DeChambeau said aft the circular that helium lone utilized the nine erstwhile connected Thursday.

Last year, DeChambeau was successful the last radical of the Masters alongside eventual victor Rory McIlroy. The 2 were paired unneurotic to extremity the anterior year's U.S. Open arsenic well, which DeChambeau won astatine the hands of atrocious putting by McIlroy and a forever-remembered up-and-down by DeChambeau from the bunker connected 18 astatine Pinehurst No. 2.

But helium could not find akin occurrence connected Thursday aft shooting a 4-over 76, putting himself successful information of missing the cut.

Bryson DeChambeau acknowledges patrons connected the 17th greenish during the archetypal circular of the Masters Tournament astatine Augusta National Golf Club successful Augusta, Georgia, connected April 9, 2026. (Michael Madrid/Imagn Images)

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DeChambeau had the second-best likelihood of winning the tourney down lone Scottie Scheffler.

Fox News' Ryan Gaydos contributed to this report.

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