Kevin Cunningham
@GOLF_com
It’s not a shocker that Bryson DeChambeau confirmed as much as the SMU soccer sport this weekend, or that he joined the enjoyable within the scholar part. However what Bryson introduced with him undoubtedly counts as a shock.
The 2-time U.S. Open champion performed school golf at SMU, the place he shortly grew to become some of the completed gamers in class historical past. He little doubt spent his fair proportion of time within the scholar part at Mustangs soccer video games as a scholar, and he’s made common appearances since turning into some of the well-known athletes on the planet.
However this Saturday, DeChambeau had one thing particular in retailer.
Although he performs for LIV Golf, DeChambeau’s profile rose as soon as once more this summer season when he gained his second U.S. Open title at Pinehurst No. 2. Together with the win, in fact, got here some {hardware}: the U.S. Open Championship Trophy, the present model of which dates again to the Nineteen Forties (the unique trophy was misplaced in a hearth in 1946). And as this yr’s champion, DeChambeau will get to maintain the famed silver for a yr.
It seems he took it with him to the soccer sport. Through the second quarter of the Mustangs 48-25 victory over the College of Pittsburgh Panthers, DeChambeau introduced the trophy to the SMU scholar part and, as is likely to be anticipated, the present college students misplaced it.
You may take a look at a glimpse of the second by way of an X publish that made the rounds.
Kevin Cunningham
Golf.com Editor
As managing producer for GOLF.com, Cunningham edits, writes and publishes tales on GOLF.com, and manages the model’s e-newsletters, which attain greater than 1.4 million subscribers every month. A former two-time intern, he additionally helps preserve GOLF.com buzzing outdoors the news-breaking tales and repair content material supplied by our reporters and writers, and works with the tech crew within the improvement of recent merchandise and revolutionary methods to ship an attractive website to our viewers.