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By Matt Audilet
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Last week's Open Championship featured a fiery controversy involving Bryson DeChambeau.
DeChambeau finished his second round at Royal Birkdale with a 4-under 66, putting him one shot behind the tournament lead heading into the weekend. But after tournament officials ruled that he improved his lie on the fifth hole, he was issued a two-stroke penalty.
DeChambeau got into a heated discussion with officials, pleading his case well after the course had cleared.
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Rory McIlroy delivered a personal jab at DeChambeau following this incident.
"I won't pretend to be up here and defend Bryson. I'm not particularly fond of him," McIlroy said. "I think a lot of it's performative. I think a lot of it's for attention."
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Before taking the course at this week's 3M Open, World No. 1 golfer Scottie Scheffler was asked if he thinks personal rivalries like this are good for the game of golf.
“I think golf's different in a sense of a lot of other sports because my biggest rival week in and week out is the golf course that we're playing. I mean, I could never stop somebody from doing anything in golf," Scheffler replied, via Flushing It. "I felt like when I played basketball there would always be rivalries in basketball because you're going to play defense against a person and that is much more personal in a sense like because I'm actively trying to stop — like if you and I were going to go out and play one-on-one, like it would turn into a rivalry because I'm actively trying to stop what you're doing, but in golf, we're always competing against ourselves on the golf course.
“I've never been a big fan of personal jabs. I don't think that rivalry is a big thing in golf just because, like I said, my biggest rivalry week in and week out is the golf course.”
Scheffler will tee off at 8:29 a.m. ET alongside Hideki Matsuyama and Sungjae Im in his first round at the 3M Open on Thursday.
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