Bryson DeChambeau’s 2026 Masters ended with a final-hole meltdown Friday. Standing on the 18th tee needing only a bogey to make the weekend cut, he walked off the final green with a triple bogey, finishing at 6-over and missing the cut by two strokes, according to a recap by Yahoo Sports.
Meanwhile, defending champion Rory McIlroy surged to a six-shot lead â the largest 36-hole margin in Masters history â raising the stakes even higher for everyone chasing the weekend cut.
A year ago, DeChambeau stood in the final Sunday pairing alongside eventual champion Rory McIlroy before fading to a tie for fifth. This time around, there will be no Sunday. Not for DeChambeau, anyway.
After an opening-round 76 â which included a triple bogey at the par-4 11th when he needed three attempts to escape a greenside bunker â DeChambeau battled back Friday and found himself inside the cut line after a birdie at 15 put him at 3-over. The cut fell at 4-over. He was, momentarily, safe.
But would it last?
DeChambeau’s 18th-Hole Implosion Ends His 2026 Masters
Then came the 18th. DeChambeau’s tee shot rocketed into the woods on the right side of the fairway. He punched out to the greenside bunker, but his third shot never escaped the sand, leaving him in the bunker again. His fourth shot landed on the front of the green and slowly trickled back off the slope and into the fairway. He chipped his fifth shot past the hole, then two-putted for a 7. That gave him a disastrous, and a 74 for the round. That put him on the wrong side of the cut line, as explained by Yahoo Sports.
The finish echoed his bunker disaster the day before. Setting aside the 18th-hole debacle, DeChambeau was just 1-over on his second round. But that made nothing but an excruciating footnote to a stunning collapse. It marked his first missed cut at the Masters since 2023.
“Just going to give what the golf course gives me,” DeChambeau had said after Round 1, as quoted by journalist Mark Schlabach of ESPN. “I have to try to hit my irons better. I drove it left numerous occasions.”
Whatever lessons he took from Round 1, he had a difficult time applying in Round 2.
DeChambeau’s LIV Golf Contract and an Uncertain Future
The exit adds another wrinkle to an already turbulent stretch for DeChambeau away from the course. He is under contract through the 2026 season with LIV Golf, the Saudi-backed breakaway league that launched in 2022 and pits 13 four-player teams against each other in a 72-hole individual and team competition, as Matthew Tierney of ESPN explained.
DeChambeau captains the team Crushers GC. But what comes next is uncertain. In February he openly criticized LIV’s switch from a 54-hole to a 72-hole format, saying, “We didn’t sign up to play for 72,” as quoted by Kevin Cunningham of Golf.com. DeChambeau at the time declined to commit to the league beyond this season.
His PGA Tour situation is equally uneasy. DeChambeau did earn a Ryder Cup spot at Bethpage Black, his first after missing out in 2023 following his LIV departure, but told Fox News that a full PGA-LIV merger seemed remote.
“We’re just too far apart on a lot of things,” he said.
For now, DeChambeau heads home from Augusta having carded two triple bogeys in two rounds, both in greenside bunkers, both on par-4 holes. Fellow LIV star Jon Rahm just barely survived the cut line and will play over the weekend. Defending champion McIlroy, on the other hand, entered the weekend with his Masters record 36-hole six-shot lead.
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