Tiger Woods had to deal with a delay ahead of his first round at the 2022 Masters! And the golf world blames Bryson DeChambeau and his slow play for it. 

Everybody was excited to watch Tiger play at an official tournament after a long time. However, his group had to wait for a lot longer than expected as the group ahead of them, with DeChambeau in it, took more time than needed. 

DeChambeau played in a group ahead of Tiger along with the Australian golfer Cameron Smith. Paul Casey, the third member of the group, had withdrawn before the round began because of a back spasm. Yet, the group took more time to finish their round because of DeChambeau’s slow play. 

According to the USGA rules, a golfer needs to hit his shots within 40 seconds. However, DeChambeau has always broken this rule and sometimes even taken a couple of minutes to hit his shots. Furthermore, Bryson had made Justin Thomas and Tommy Fleetwood frustrated once for taking more than two minutes to make an 8-footer birdie.

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The fellow golfer, Brooks Koepka, also had once called out the slow players for making the game tough for others. “Guys are already so slow,” he said. “It’s kind of embarrassing.” He expressed his frustration after Bryson and others got criticized for their slow play.

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Since it is not the first time DeChambeau was accused of slow play, many of the prominent names from the sports world took Twitter to make their statement on it.

Many fans, too, found DeChambeau the reason for making everyone else wait.

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Although the majority of the golf world thought Bryson’s slow play made the round delay, some fans had different opinions. They explained that the group before DeChambeau and Smith was the real reason for the game getting delayed.

The 2022 Masters for Woods

Although he got a late start, Woods had an otherwise good day at the Masters on Thursday. Despite playing an official tournament after a one-year break, the golfer had impressed everyone with his 1-under 71 in round 1. 

Apart from him, golfers like Cameron Smith, Dustin Johnson, Scottie Scheffler, Patrick Cantlay, and Sungjae Im had an impressive day on Thursday. 

Although DeChambeau and others had made him wait longer to play, Woods was incredible in the first round. Do you think he can win the first major of the year?

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