A month after he claimed his first win as a professional, the 29-year-old from Colorado beat Rory McIlroy by a shot to win at Los Angeles Country Club.
As the 123rd U.S. Open became the latest golf adventure brimming with a fine senselessness, that last guy ended up mastering the 18th green even as the crowd closed in behind him and made a maelstrom. Wyndham Clark ended up sending a 60-foot lag putt to last the rest of his life to 18 inches, knocking that in for a clinching par, pumping his arms, sobbing on caddie John Ellis’s shoulder and then sobbing in his cap.
He has a Renoir of a short game, which let him spread self-rescuing beauty across Nos. 8, 9, 11 and 17, to name some junctures, while the seasoned guys around him either faded or couldn’t menace. “You know,” Clark said, “I feel like I belong on this stage, and even two, three years ago when people didn’t know who I was, I felt like I could still play and compete against the best players in the world.
McIlroy became Par Man, and while many a Par Man has won many a U.S. Open, it might have caused some fine giggling to see the Northern Irish surname “McIlroy” in the role of Par Man. Par Man made 16 pars, one birdie and one bogey . A player capable of tour-guiding spectators through all manner of vegetation and misadventure, often with a brilliance to offset the strain, made 12 straight pars from holes Nos. 2 through 13. After he wedged a ball somehow into a wall of a bunker on No.
Once he tossed in that bogey on No. 14, his nine-foot par bid rolling by on the right, his deficit stood at three once Clark arrived in the ensuing pairing , drove it 328 in the left fairway like somebody in his 58th major or something, reached the green in two and loosed another of his mighty lag putts from 20 feet to nine inches for a birdie.
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