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.
On Saturday evening in Los Angeles, Min Woo Lee’s phone pinged with a text from his friend and childhood idol, Adam Scott. It was an offer to ride on the former Masters champion’s private jet to Connecticut for next week’s Travelers Championship.
It wasn’t a lip-out, it was a literal bounce-out. Of the inexplicable variety. How, on earth, can this happen in a major championship? Sorcery is the only possible answer.
US Opens are supposed to be about pars, or at least they were for most of the 75 years since Los Angeles last hosted the event. And the press conferences competitors hold during the championship are meant to contain answers about keeping it in the fairway, taking medicine when drives find the rough, and leaving Read more…
For the second time in a week, Adam Hadwin is going viral on Golf Twitter. Just five days after being tackled by a security guard while trying to celebrate Nick Taylor’s win at the Canadian Open, the PGA Tour pro had another embarrassing moment. At least this one didn’t look as painful. During the second Read more…
It was an ending not even Hollywood saw coming. Rory McIlroy was on track to add to what was already a blockbuster opening round filled with scoring records for the US Open at Los Angeles Country Club. Hours after Rickie Fowler and Xander Schauffele shot the first two 62s in US Open history to lead Read more…
Fowler and Schauffele struck record-breaking blows in round one. But the US Open’s record speaks for itself. Whatever ease can be found is usually fleeting.