a little more than a week after he finished one shot short of Wyndham Clark at Los Angeles Country Club, a USGA executive acknowledged that a free drop Rory McIlroy received during a critical moment of the final round was incorrectly administered.
In the video, originally posted by Beerholegolf on Tik Tok, you’ll hear the 2020 US Open winner ask someone in the crowd “you’re still timing? Because they just walked off the green buddy.”
Securing Riviera gives the USGA 12 consecutive years of future US Open sites, and 16 of the next 19 are set through 2042. The only open dates now are 2036, 2038 and 2040. In all, 20 sites have been determined through 2051.
The new US Open champion dedicated his win to his late mother, Lise, who died in 2013 at age 54 due to cancer. She had taught him the mantra of “play big”, which Clark had held close to his heart.
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.
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.
In practical terms it means you’re seeing players revert to one tried-and-tested shot shape during the final round: fades, which are shots which move from left-to-right for right-handers.
It’s hard to notice anything other than Rory McIlroy’s picture perfect golf swing, or his rifling ball strike, whenever he sends one into the distance. But following him on the back nine during Saturday’s third round, I noticed something different.
This is not a town that traffics in modesty. Everything is large and loud and runs on an undercurrent of swagger. So it’s fair to wonder why the same doesn’t apply to this US Open.
Los Angeles has always loved a redemption story. Only three months ago, Brendan Fraser won the Oscar for best actor in “The Whale,” in which he gained considerable weight to play an obese English teacher trying to reconnect with his daughter. “The Whale” came decades after Fraser had last played a lead role in a Read more…
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.
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