The Pulse Newsletter 📣 | This is The Athletic’s daily sports newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Pulse directly in your inbox.Good morning! On this Father’s Day, one of our dads is hiking the Pacific Crest Trail, while the other is on a couch in Pittsburgh watching the U.S. Open. Thanks, fellas! (We’ll also call you.) Today:
Wyndham, Rewarded: The U.S. Open is one man’s to loseWyndham Clark (-7) has a six-shot lead at the U.S. Open, and today, he’ll get the ultimate real-world test of a fun golf question: By how many shots would you need to be leading Scottie Scheffler (-1) on Sunday at a major in order to win? The world No. 1 joins him in the final group. Even for Scheffler, beating Clark by six shots to force a playoff is a tall order.Clark’s big lead belies how hard he had to work on Saturday. His game wasn’t all that sharp, and he had to scratch and claw his way to a lot of pars. Take his performance at Shinnecock Hills’ par-4 13th hole, a short one at a listed 375 yards:
A 304-yard drive into the fescue right and short of the green
A heavy lash from the thick stuff, which wound up in the greenside bunker
A pedestrian sand shot that left him with 14 feet for par
