To distill Wyndham Clark to tragedy may seem wildly unfair to him, his story, his play. But to define him by what he’s shouldered, from where he’s been to where he’s come – and knowing his mum would approve – says more about him than a score ever will.
Clark’s wedges are Titleist’s Vokey SM9 model with a 46-degree pitching wedge and 52 and 56-degree gap and sand wedges. His 60-degree lob wedge is a Vokey SM9 WedgeWorks model with True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400 shafts.
Cameron Smith admits chasing down the US Open leaders would require the “round of his life” after falling back on the leaderboard in round three at Los Angeles Country Club.
The defending champion blamed the USGA, which implemented “capacity limitations” this week, as well as club members for abusing the ticket policy so crowds would remain smaller than normal.
Standing on the 15th tee, you could throw a ball onto the putting surface, so we wondered why the field wouldn’t be tempted into trying to shoot straight at the flag.
Young’s tee shot flew 50 metres offline, through some trees, into the gallery and somehow, defying both odds and physics, plopped in the last place you would ever expect.
Fowler has posted 12 top-10s in his majors career, the most recent at the 2021 PGA Championship, but how close was he to actually winning any of them, and how did they slip away?