LOS ANGELES —They couldn't be more different, the four-time major winner and face of the PGA Tour, and the virtual unknown playing in just his seventh major. But in the final holes of the U.S. Open, Rory McIlroy and Wyndham Clark were the last men standing, separated by just a single stroke with one hole to play.
Wyndham Clark hits from the rough on the sixth hole during the final round of the U.S. Open golf tournament at Los Angeles Country Club on Sunday, June 18, 2023, in Los Angeles. LOS ANGELES —They couldn’t be more different, the four-time major winner and face of the PGA Tour, and the virtual unknown playing in just his seventh major. But in the final holes of the U.S. Open, Rory McIlroy and Wyndham Clark were the last men standing, separated by just a single stroke with one hole to play.
But this is the U.S. Open, where nothing comes easy. Clark made the only bogey of the entire day on the 81-yard 15th hole, while ahead of him McIlroy managed a long par save. Clark found the fairway bunker on the 16th and was forced to lay up. Facing a seven-foot putt to save par, perhaps the most crucial putt of his career, Clark burned the right edge to allow McIlroy back to within a stroke with two holes to play.
Players who addressed the media before the U.S. Open complained that they were blindsided by the announcement and still clueless about the future of professional golf. That included those who accepted vast sums of money to join LIV Golf and those who passed out of loyalty to the PGA Tour and ethical concerns about Saudi Arabia’s history of human rights violations.
“I hope it's carnage. I hope it's a typical U.S. Open,” Los Angeles native Max Homa predicted on Tuesday. “This golf course lends itself to that.”Sparse crowds loaded with club members and corporate types watched Rickie Fowler produce the lowest-scoring round in the U.S. Open’s 128-year history on Thursday morning, only to have Xander Schauffele match him mere minutes later.
Then there was the outlier among the leaders, a 29-year-old who was ranked outside the top 200 as recently as two years ago and didn’t earn his first victory as a professional until May. Clark gained confidence piling up top 25 finishes this season and then unleashed the best golf of his career on the U.S. Open stage.
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