Wyndham Clark heard it all day from the Shinnecock Hills crowd. Fans shouted for his golf ball to go in the bunker and the rough. One was ejected after yelling: “Don’t choke, Wyndham!”He quieted them with a 52-foot putt to tap-in range for his second U.S. Open title in four years, avoiding the worst collapse in tournament history after his six-stroke lead dwindled to one.Oh, how this anybody-but-Wyndham crowd would’ve relished that.New York loves a winner, but the one these fans really wanted to see on Sunday was Scottie Scheffler, who was chasing the career Grand Slam, or Sam Burns, who lost by a stroke. Not Clark.Call it backlash for him damaging a locker in a fit of rage at Oakmont Country Club while missing the cut last year in the U.S. Open. Or for saying on TV that being surrounded by kids playing in the Masters Par 3 Contest was “great birth control.” Or even for winning his first U.S. Open title in 2023 over fan favorites Rory McIlroy and Rickie Fowler.
Or maybe the folks spending their Father’s Day at Shinnecock just wanted to see a little drama after Clark built leads of two, four and six strokes after each of the first three days.
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“Man, they definitely didn’t want me to win,” Clark said.On Saturday, he complained that fans had largely deserted the course by the time he was finishing his third round. On Sunday, he might’ve wished they had stayed home.
