It was all there, just underneath. The grief. The failures. The hopes and the doubts. Winning a U.S. Open came when Wyndham Clark understood not to go to war with those feelings but to make peace with them, writes BrodyAMiller.
LOS ANGELES — When you find out what was bubbling under the surface, yearning to come out the moment the ball hit the bottom of that cup, the more what happened here becomes apparent. It was all there, just underneath. The grief. The failures. The hopes and the doubts. Winning a U.S. Open came when Wyndham Clark understood not to go to war with those feelings but to make peace with them., to punch walls and break clubs. He feels things.
Clark went up to that ball, pulled back and hacked it. And he missed. He turned so fast and grimaced with his arms prepared to fling the club to the fifth tee box.Clark slowed down. He took his time, went back to the ball and got under it, floating it high into the sky to the rough on the other side of the green. Then from that thick bermuda rough, Clark hit a near-perfect chip within two feet of the pin and tapped in for a bogey. He lost a stroke, but in reality, he won the U.S.
Wyndham Clark won the U.S. Open. You didn’t see it coming. Even he didn’t see it coming. But then you remember how his late mother, Lise, always greeted him and you realize it was all in the plan.Clark heard the chants of “Rickie, Rickie, Rickie!” as he played both weekend rounds in the final group with Rickie Fowler, like McIlroy a beloved golf star who Los Angeles Country Club fell in love with all week.
But Clark had the round Sunday somebody like four-time major champ McIlroy was supposed to have. The kind of round in which you go get it in the most difficult moments. They had the same final round score, yeah, but golf is about those pivot point moments where it’s kill or be killed.
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