The US Open wrapped up, as it always does, on Father’s Day. Golf’s newest champion would be the first to tell people -- he’s always been a mama’s boy.
Wyndham Clark’s victory Sunday will be remembered for how a 29-year-old newcomer to the big time held off some of the biggest names in the game to stamp a poignant exclamation mark on a U.S. Open that had been, to that point, kind of hard to love.
The road back led him to leave college at Oklahoma State for a fresh start at Oregon. It involved a relatively quick rise for an aspiring pro golfer, but one pushed off course by typical slumps and close calls that led to more than one crisis in confidence. “I guess you’re just hoping for the other guy to slip up or make a mistake or give you a glimmer of hope,” McIlroy said. “Wyndham was pretty much rock-solid all day.”
“An up-and-coming star,” his caddie and one-time assistant coach at Oregon, John Ellis, called him. "If he wasn’t one before, he is one now. First time he has actually competed in a major for a chance to win and he shows he can handle the heat.”
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