SMU senior and reigning U.S. Amateur and NCAA men’s golf champion Bryson DeChambeau is leaving the SMU men’s golf team following the severe NCAA sanctions announced two weeks ago.
“To best prepare myself for the next six months of competition and future events, I felt it was appropriate to make this decision now to be fair to my coaches and team,” DeChambeau told the Golf Channel.
As a result of recruiting and ethical violations that occurred under former Head Coach Josh Gregory, the NCAA docked the golf team 25 percent of its scholarships for three years and banned it from postseason individual and team competition in 2016.