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SOUTHPORT, England \u2014 Scottie Scheffler, when asked on Saturday what he thought about the two-shot penalty assessed to Bryson DeChambeau on Friday, was cryptic with his response, saying he had a lot to say, but wasn\u2019t ready to do so.<\/p>\n

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After his round on Sunday, Scheffler expanded on his thoughts and defended DeChambeau.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll I can really say is I think maybe we need to be a little bit more strict in the way that we are policing guys, but it\u2019s a little bit of a balance because you\u2019ve got certain guys like a Bryson, who every shot he hits is going to be shown on TV,\u2019\u2019 Scheffler said. \u201cWhen you have camera angles that are far away, things can look different than they do when you\u2019re right there.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll I\u2019ll say is Bryson, I\u2019ve known him for a long time, and he\u2019s a lot of things, but he\u2019s definitely not a cheater. I\u2019ve never seen him cheat once, whether we were having a putting contest on the putting green or chipping contest, or anytime we played amateur golf, I never saw anything suspicious.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

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Scheffler said when watching the camera angles that were supposedly showing DeChambeau improving the line for his backswing were inconclusive to him, saying, \u201cMaybe he was a touch careless around his ball, but I don\u2019t think he did anything intentionally.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like at times, sometimes you see players maybe push it a little bit further than they should,\u2019\u2019 Scheffler said. \u201cI think we need to kind of get back to the traditions of the game and maybe we do need to police things a little bit more stricter in the game. Bryson is a guy that I\u2019ve known for a really long time. Like I said, he\u2019s not a cheater.\u201d<\/p>\n

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