U.S. Open 2024 live updates (2024)

Bryson DeChambeau beat Rory McIlroy in a thrilling duel on the back nine at Pinehurst in North Carolina to win the U.S. Open by a single shot, in his second major championship victory.

McIlroy led by two with five to play but then blew the chance to end a 10-year wait for a major title by making three bogeys in his final four holes, including a heart-breaker at the 18th where he missed from inside four feet.

And DeChambeau, who also won the tournament at Winged Foot in 2020, showed his class to save par when in desperate trouble at the last to clinch the title, which he dedicated to his late father as well as boyhood hero Payne Stewart, who passed away in 1999.

Final leaderboard:

• -6: Bryson DeChambeau (71)
• -5: Rory McIlroy (69)
• -4: Patrick Cantlay (70), Tony Finau (67)

DeChambeau is just the fourth player in history to win a U.S. Amateur and multiple U.S. Open championships, joining arguably the three best players in the history of the men’s game: Bobby Jones, Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods. His second U.S. Open win comes at age 30, another rare accomplishment. Since World War II, just Nicklaus, Woods, Ernie Els and Brooks Koepka have won a second U.S. Open title at age 30 or younger.

DeChambeau makes it six consecutive men’s majors won by six different American players: Koepka, Wyndham Clark, Brian Harman, Scottie Scheffler, Xander Schauffele and DeChambeau. The last time there was a streak that long of consecutive, different U.S. players winning was in the mid-to-late 1970s. From the 1975 PGA through the 1977 U.S. Open, Nicklaus, Raymond Floyd, Jerry Pate, Johnny Miller, Dave Stockton, Tom Watson and Hubert Green won seven straight.

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It is 9:05 p.m.

Bryson DeChambeau is still wearing the clothes he was wearing eight hours ago. It is pitch dark. He is holding the U.S. Open trophy, and coaching Golf Channel's Johnson Wagner through a live demonstration of his 55-yard bunker shot on No. 18. Wagner nearly holes it, and DeChambeau has handed off the trophy.

There's no telling where this is going but I'm intrigued.

In accepting his trophy presentation and as trailed by Hugh Kellenberger, Bryson DeChambeau also went on to say this:

💬 “What it means… I haven’t let it sink in yet. Tonight I want all of you guys, somehow, to touch this trophy. Because I want you to experience what it feels like. And I want you to be a part of the afterparty.”

And with that, DeChambeau sets off to literally give everyone on property the chance to touch the trophy.

He was still going until a moment ago, when he returned to the site of his soon to be iconic bunker shot at the 18th for a perfect photo opportunity.

It also gives him the chance to rake the bunker, which it looks like he forgot to do at the time. That will be a fine.

What an incredible moment and week for Bryson DeChambeau. He was eloquent following his win too — his second major and second U.S. Open following victory in 2020.

💬 “I want to say happy father's day to every father out there. Unfortunately my dad passed a couple years ago and this one is for him. Also to Payne Stewart. He’s the reason I wore the cap. Go SMU! (Southern Methodist University)

“I felt I was hitting the driver well today; it just wasn’t starting where I wanted it to. I knew I needed to make a birdie at 13 to give myself a chance. Rory slipped up a couple of times coming in, but I stayed the course. I got out of trouble well.

“And then I can’t believe the up and down (at 18). That was probably the best shot of my life.

“It was a hit and hope! And then the putt... I remembered Payne’s shot there and to win this prestigious championship, it’s the highlight of my life. I still can’t believe it.”

Bryson DeChambeau just told the crowd around 18th green and up to the double-decker grandstand that he wants to find a way for each of them to touch the trophy tonight.

Speaking as someone who has spent the last week in Pinehurst, I feel confident there is no venue large enough in the Village of Pinehurst to hold such a gathering. And even if there was, it would be a wait of several hours for a table.

It was 6:45 p.m. ET in Pinehurst when Rory McIlroy stuffed his golf bag into the back of his courtesy Lexus SUV, put the car in the reverse, and pulled out of returning champion’s parking lot.

McIlroy declined to speak to television or other media following his collapse in the final hour of the U.S. Open.

After watching Bryson DeChambeau convert a now-legendary winning up-and-down from the bunker in front of the 18th fairway, McIlroy immediately exited the property looking all things distraught, devastated and utterly dumbfounded.

McIlroy held a two-shot lead with five holes to go before imploding with bogies on 15, 16 and 18, including two of the cruelest missed short putts of his career.

McIlroy’s career major drought goes on, now reaching a mind-numbing 37 straight appearances without a win, as he drives off somewhere into the Sandhills of North Carolina.

Any comments on his back-to-back solo runner-up finishes in the U.S. Open will have to come at this week’s Travelers Championship, if he indeed opts to play in to Cromwell, Conn., this week.

Bryson DeChambeau lost strokes putting and approaching the green today. He was only barely positive off the tee. But yet he’s the U.S. Open winner. Truly astonishing stuff.

• Putting: -0.587, 49th in the field
• Approach the green: -0.062, 39th
• Off the tee: 0.1117, 37th
• Around the green: 1.316, 10th

I mentioned it at the start of the day and the narrative came to fruition.

Bryson DeChambeau idolized Payne Stewart as a youngster.

He wore a hat like him. He went to the same college as he did, as soon as he realized that was going to be the case.

Payne Stewart, the two-time U.S. Open winner and someone who produced something special at Pinehurst.

“Payne right there, baby,” cries DeChambeau, holding his hat to the cameras during his celebrations.

DeChambeau has worn a pin badge on his hat all day today, on Father’s Day no less, when DeChambeau admitted last night that his dad — who died not so long ago — would be in his mind through every hole today.

For all that and more, it’s hard not to feel huge warmth for what DeChambeau has just done today in North Carolina.

That was so, so close to Rory McIlroy winning his fifth major after more than 10 years waiting.

Two four-foot putts close in fact.

You may well see those missed putts a lot in future too. If you can't do the business in those moments, you should probably expect to get caught by someone who can.

The TV cameras catch McIlroy walking out of the clubhouse after handing in his card and he looks like a man who’s going to spend the next few weeks shaking his head.

And if he doesn’t win the Open at Royal Troon in a few weeks, maybe he’ll still be shaking his head come our return to Augusta in 2025.

You are going to see that third shot (not so much the second!) at the 18th replayed A LOT.

It was a moment of magic from a golfer that the U.S. has found new levels of affection for over these past few days.

Magic, Bryson DeChambeau. Just magic.

He’s done it! Bryson DeChambeau wins at Pinehurst No. 2 for his first major in 2024 and his second U.S. Open title.

What an incredible back nine we’ve just seen play out. Wow.

Rory McIlory has signed in his card. Just as Bryson DeChambeau takes a curious stab out of the rough to prod the ball forward 40 yards into the sand in front of the green.

He’s got 55 yards left and two shots to win the U.S. Open — and he plays a shot that deserves to win any major. Wow.

2: McIlroy (-5) 69

Deary me. That’s another one from 4ft that rolls around the cup and then out. Quite the break to the right there too.

Rory McIlroy drops a shot at the 18th, finishing 1-under for today and 5-under for the championship.

And now, it’s all eyes on Bryson…

Wow. What a fabulous third shot that is from Rory McIlroy from there. It leaves him a 4ft putt (yes, another one) to escape with par.

Meanwhile, Bryson DeChambeau shanks his tee shot off the 18th well to the right. That’s arguably worse than where Rory was.

Here goes Bryson DeChambeau. An 18ft putt for birdie on 17 after a delightful tee shot.

It looks good to start, but then runs out of steam and trickles left. He later completes his par.

As for Rory McIlroy, he hits out of the wiregrass but it’s well short of the green. This is going to be some serious work to make it in two from there.

You know what. Bryson DeChambeau is making chances for himself to win this — and as he does, I can’t stop thinking about Payne Stewart and 1999. Special tee shot. Bryson now within 18ft on the 17th with a birdie putt.

As for Rory McIlroy, he goes wide into the native rough on the left at 18th. That is a horrible turn of events for him.