The Open Diary: Bryson bringing the bling

DeChambeau has followed in the footsteps of Lionel Messi, Anthony Joshua, Kylian Mbappe and … Paris Hilton.

GOLDEN BOY: USA's Bryson DeChambeau after a press conference ahead of The Open at Royal Troon. Pic: Zac Goodwin/PA Wire. 

“There's a lot of money floating around in golf at the minute,” Rory McIlroy said on Tuesday. The man wasn’t wrong.

Exhibit 9,548 in the case against golf’s crazed excesses is now presented to one and all by the custom-made, solid-gold smartphone delivered to Bryson DeChambeau at the LIV tournament (of course) in Andalucia last weekend.