MAMARONECK, N.Y. (Reuters) – Louis Oosthuizen was left with little selection however to doff his hat to Bryson DeChambeau after the muscle-bound American battered the Winged Foot course into submission to win his first main on the U.S. Open on Sunday.

South African Oosthuizen, who received the 2010 British Open, began the day 4 strokes off the tempo however his hopes of touchdown a second main shortly light and he completed a distant eight photographs behind DeChambeau in third place.

“Ending third in a significant is all the time nice (however) it was going to be robust,” the 37-year-old advised reporters after signing for a two-over 73.

“Bryson is taking part in his personal little golf course in the meanwhile. This golf course positively confirmed its tooth as we speak with the firmness of the greens and the fairways and the wind, and it was simply robust.”

Whereas Oosthuizen struggled within the circumstances, DeChambeau ramped up his energy recreation to romp to a final-round 67 and victory by six photographs over fellow American Matthew Wolff [nL5N2GH0LL]

“I feel he is busy setting his personal little means of taking part in,” Oosthuizen added.

“He is hitting it to this point. He is so robust out of the tough and he is in all probability among the finest putters on the market. (In) every week that he actually putts nicely, you are going to have quite a lot of hassle.

“It is nice to see. Hats off to him for what he is doing. He went out on this journey, and he is pulling it off. He is taking part in nice golf.”

Oosthuizen stated even with out DeChambeau’s magnificent closing spherical he would nonetheless have struggled to land his second main on the daunting format.

“In case you take him out, I am proper up there,” he stated.

“However you already know, if you happen to take him out, then in all probability a bit bit extra nerves and stuff coming down the stretch, so there’s quite a lot of issues that might go totally different then.”

(Reporting by Amy Tennery, writing by Nick Mulvenney in Sydney, enhancing by Peter Rutherford)