Holding the 54-hole lead at the US Open, Wyndham Clark was asked about his reputation for playing volatile golf, with rollercoaster rounds the norm. “Today was very volatile,” he said. “Hopefully tomorrow it can be definitely a little more low-key, and hopefully I can play some boring golf.”
The last part of that comment didn’t age well.
Clark, who held a six-shot lead entering the round, saw it shrivel to one and found the fescue off the tee at the par-5 16th. After a fabulous recovery allowed him to hit 8-iron into the green, Clark rolled in the 24-footer for birdie (his fifth make from 20-plus feet on the week) to give him the breathing room he needed to claim his second US Open title.
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His putter is a Ping Scottsdale Tec Ally Blue Onset mallet, a club he put in play at the Masters, after going through multiple putters in the first few months of the season. Clark’s putter has several strips of lead tape on the bottom of the sole to counterbalance the weight of the long, oversize Superstroke Revl Mid F/C grip. The 38-inch putter has 3 degrees of loft, a 20-degree lie angle and an estimated head weight of 400 grams, extremely heavy given most putters are in the 340- to 360-gram range. For the week Clark ranked second in strokes gained/putting.
Off the tee, Clark ranked 14th in strokes gained with his 10.5-degree TaylorMade Qi4D with a Project X Titan Yellow 60TX shaft, but it was Clark’s work with his wedges that saved him time and again. Not only did he rank 12th in strokes gained/around the green, but he knocked his Titleist Vokey WedgeWorks 60-degree lob wedge from 60 yards to four feet at the par-4 10th to steady his round on a hole that gave others fits.
Of course, you can’t win the US Open without the proper golf ball and Clark knows that.
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“I’m a low spin player, I have a lot of speed, but I don’t spin the ball very much,” Clark said. “And the Pro V1x, especially with my irons and driver, spins at the numbers that I want. Also, I think it’s great around the greens. I’ve always been looking for spin. And this Pro V1x gives me exactly what I need… I need the spin to help keep the ball in the air, to be able to control it better around the greens. And that’s the most important thing for me. And especially out on tour, you need to be able to have the ball to stop very quick, and that’s what this ball does.”
A three-putt bogey on 17 made the 18th interesting, but two putts from 52 feet cemented the victory. What else would you expect from a man that plays volatile golf to the end.
What Wyndham Clark had in the bag at the 2026 US Open:
Ball: Titleist Pro V1x
Driver: TaylorMade Qi4D (Project X Titan Yellow 60 TX), 10.5 degrees
3-wood: Ping G440 Max, 15 degrees
Irons (3-5): Titleist T200; (6-9): Titleist T100
Wedges: Titleist Vokey SM11 (44, 50, 54 degrees); Titleist Vokey WedgeWorks (60 degrees)
Putter: Ping Scottsdale Tec Ally Blue Onset
