Bryson DeChambeau torched by King of Oakmont as busted LIV star sees brute US Open approach flop

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Johnny Miller set the course record 63 over 50 years ago and knows the tricks
Busted Bryson DeChambeau has been torched by a former US Open champion the King of Oakmont after flopping with his brute approach to the course.
Johnny Miller mastered the toughest challenge in golf when he shot a mind-boggling and record-setting 63 around the treacherous terrain in the act of winning the 1973 tournament at the fearsome Pennsylvania track.
Miller used panache and precision to get the job done and gave a scathing assessment on LIV star DeChambeau's boom-or-bust outlook which saw him miss the cut and crash out after just two days hacking through rough and finding bother.
DeChambeau shot 73 and 77 for 10-over par and Miller said: 'When you can get the ball in the fairway, you can work the ball if you need to and you eliminate so many mistake upon mistakes. If you hit it here in this rough and you try to get too much out of the lie, you get in even more trouble.
'It's still all about hitting that ball in the fairway. You see the guys that don't. Like Bryson DeChambeau, he was living in the rough there this last couple days. Of course he gets to watch it on TV today. You've got to hit it in the fairway and then you've got to be able to handle the US Open pressure. There's a lot of guys like Jack [Nickalus] was sort of alluding to that the thought of winning a US Open is a little out of their comfort zone, so there's only a certain kind of player that can win a U.S. Open, especially on Sunday.'
Of course, De Chambeau did manage to win the US Open trophy 12 months ago at Pinehurst and stayed strong down the stretch against Rory McIlroy. However, he was battered by Oakmont and never in with a chance of defending his title as he stumbled around trouble for 36 holes.
Miller, on the other hand, was smooth when he won 52 years ago and said: 'For me, I was up and down the first couple days. I wasn't really hitting the ball that great, especially on the first round when I shot the 76, I did not play well at all tee to green. Then in the last round, it was like, my guardian angel out there said, Okay, we're going to put together a perfect round of golf and it was literally a perfect round of golf.
'I missed one fairway on 11 just by a couple feet, but the fact I hit every green and I hit the ball underneath the hole, only had one putt that was a little bit downhill, that's hard to do at Oakmont, to hit 18 greens and have no downhill putts.
'I guess it was meant to be because I was not playing that great. I had played with Arnold Palmer the first two rounds, which was, back in those days, was a crazy experience with his gallery. His gallery, they were crazy. crazy good.
'But to get through the gauntlet of playing with Arnold on the first two rounds was pretty good. We both shot 140, and just handling the pressure that week was he other part.'