Bryson DeChambeau Reacts to 2-Stroke Penalty After Heated Exchange with British Open Officials

Bryson DeChambeau says he is fired up by the two-stroke penalty he received during the second round of The Open Championship.

Tournament organizers gave DeChambeau the penalty after claiming he improved his lie before hitting his second shot on No. 5.

"Obviously disappointed with the ruling. I don't agree with it, but it is what it is," DeChambeau wrote Friday on social media.

DeChambeau added: "Onto the weekend. Let's get it."

DeChambeau is tied for fifth place at 5-under through 36 holes at Royal Birkdale.

The post comes after DeChambeau's agent Brett Falkoff indicated earlier Friday there was a possibility his client wouldn't be playing in Round 3 after the penalty.

"Let's see if he shows up late tomorrow afternoon, your guess is as good as mine," Falkoff said Friday, per the Daily Mail's James Sharpe.

DeChambeau was assessed the penalty after officials determined he had trampled grass around the ball. The additional two strokes changed his score on the par-5 hole from a bogey to triple bogey.

The Golf Channel's Todd Lewis said Falkoff and DeChambeau's caddy argued any disturbed grass was not in the path of his line of play.

"The issue that they are having is that yes, he maybe did unintentionally step on some reeds and blades of grass around the ball, but they feel like even if he knocked some of those blades down, those reeds down, it was not the line, or the path, that he was swinging to, and so he did not improve his lie," Lewis said.

The Open's chief referee Grant Moir explained after the round officials assessed the penalty after determining DeChambeau may have inadvertently improved the area of his "intended backswing."

The rule in question applies even when there was no intention to improve the area, Moir told reporters.

DeChambeau is heading into the weekend three strokes back of Lucas Herbert's solo lead. He'll look to make up that deficit when he tees off for Round 3 at 10:30 a.m. ET.