SOUTHPORT, MERSEYSIDE, ENGLAND – It’s been ten years since the world’s greatest golfers have tackled mighty Royal Birkdale for an Open Championship. There are some changes to the golf course, primarily to equate the difficulty of the nines and to diversify the par-3s. But the links golf challenges of Birkdale endure, as does the unpredictability of wind and weather...
SOUTHPORT, MERSEYSIDE, ENGLAND – Like a dream from which you never want to wake, a walk amidst the heaving dunes and rumpled fairways of Royal Birkdale is a golfer’s greatest wish come to life. The sting of the salty spray in your nostrils, the wild, whirling winds whipping the flag, and the fairways winding through the mighty dunes like pathways through a maze: a...
SOUTHAMPTON, NY – Six stroke lead or not, Championship Sunday at Shinnecock Hills will be a five-hour golf round as difficult as a doctoral dissertation for Wyndham Clark as well as the rest of the field chasing him at the 126th U.S. Open. Should he falter – and that’s just one bad swing and one bad decision – eight players are at even par or better. On Championship...
SPECIAL TO GOLF NEWS NET SOUTHAMPTON, NY – It Wyndham in the wind on Thursday at the U.S. Open as Wyndham Clark, the 2023 U.S. Open Champion at L.A. Country Club, fired a sizzling 8-under 64 in blustery conditions to lead the U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills by three shots. Meanwhile a whopping six former U.S. Open champions shot ever par or better, and eight players...
Scene Stealer! Unheralded Wyndham Clark Wins Hollywood U.S. Open at L.A. Country Club —by Jay Flemma, Golf News Net— LOS ANGELES, CA — Quick! We need rewrites to the script! A bit player stole the show in Hollywood! 29-year old Wyndham Clark, unheralded before the tournament began, outlasted four-time major champion Rory McIlroy at Los Angeles...
Journeyman Wyndham Clark Fires 67, Will play in Saturday’s Final Group with Fowler —by Jay Flemma, Golf News Net— LOS ANGELES, CA — It wouldn’t be the U.S. Open if a puzzling stranger didn’t make a surprise appearance on the leaderboard sending everyone scrambling for their Player’s Guide. Young, unknown Wyndham Clark opened...