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World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler initially declined to comment on the two-stroke penalty handed to Bryson DeChambeau following his second round.
After finishing in a tie for fourth place at the tournament, though, the four-time major champion gave his true thoughts on the harsh penalty DeChambeau received for allegedly improving his swing area by stomping around his ball in the tall grass.
"All I'll say is Bryson -- I've known him for a long time, and he's a lot of things, but he's definitely not a cheater," Scheffler said. "I've never seen him cheat once, whether we were having a putting contest on the putting green or chipping contest, or anytime we played amateur golf, I never saw anything suspicious."
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Scheffler suggested DeChambeau may have been "careless" around the ball, but doesn't think the two-time U.S. Open champion deliberately improved his chances of playing the ball.
"When you're watching him there from that camera angle, maybe he was a touch careless around his ball, but I don't think he did anything intentionally," he said.
DeChambeau went on to finish in a tie for 14th place after making his first cut in a major tournament this season. He closed with a two-over, 72 that saw him fall a few places down the leaderboard, but still remain inside the top 20 at the Open Championship for the second straight year.
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