Three majors. Three missed cuts.  And CBS Sports analyst Johnson Wagner says a fourth missed cut is inevitable.

Bryson DeChambeau is facing the threat of completing an unwanted 'missed cut Grand Slam' this season after failing to make the weekend at the first three majors of the year.

“Miss cut for sure,” Wagner said while appearing on the Golf on CBS Podcast. "This is not a good setup for him. He does not play well in high winds. I think Bryson misses the cut and goes for the DeChambeau Grand Slam of MCs in the majors this year."

Wagner's trust is rooted in the punishing dune-lined fairways and the unpredictable wind conditions common on links courses at the Open Championship. Wagner had said something similar days earlier on the CBS Scorecard podcast, when he was asked to preview DeChambeau's Open week.

Wagner said back then, "The only time he's played well at an Open Championship in recent years is last year, and it was just the last three rounds when the wind died down. He is not built for The Open Championship."

DeChambeau's Open history backs this claim. He has made the weekend in five of eight Open starts, and has never finished inside the top five. In his Open Championship debut back in 2017 at Royal Birkdale, the same course hosting this year's event, he missed the cut.

That's why CBS host Shane Bacon and Joe Musso agreed with Wagner's claim. "I think he's gonna miss the cut. Links golf right now just does not translate for Bryson," Bacon added during the same conversation, posted by Golf on CBS on X.

Bryson DeChambeau Is Well Aware of His Struggles

DeChambeau arrived at the Masters as one of the favorites only to miss the cut at Augusta. The PGA Championship at Aronimink was worse. He was never seriously in the tournament, finishing 7 over par total.

Then came the U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills, a championship he's won twice before, where two disastrous three-putt double bogeys in his second round buried him on the way to a five-over total and a third straight missed weekend.

A week later, he posted a 34-minute YouTube video and walked through his rounds at the U.S. Open shot by shot. Asked why he believes he's missed three straight major cuts, he didn't blame luck or the courses.

He said it was 'not good enough golf,' then went on to say he needed better decisions, better comfort over the ball, better putting speed, better wedges and better iron play to fix his game.

“Put one foot in front of the other and keep going,” DeChambeau said at the end.

“There’s not much more I can do than that. Just last year, before the U.S. Open, I was one of the best major championship performers in the world. Come one year later, everybody says I’m the worst. It just is what it is. It’s life, it’s golf.  Things don’t always go your way. But guess what? Keep going.”

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Written by

Md Saife Fida

Edited by

Siddharth Shirwadkar