-6 in the 1st round is not a US Open. Please bring back the Olympic Club into the rotation. And an Amateur is in 2nd? My God...what has Golf turned into.
Wyndham Clark had to hang on for dear life after starting with a 6 shot lead. But the key play was his birdie on the par 5 16th. Hit his drive in to the bad rough, but made the shot he needed to have a shot at the green in 3. Then he drained a 20 foot or longer putt for a birdie. It was all but over then. He did give that back on #17 with a 3 putt bogey. I am wondering why in the heck he went with 9 iron when all day players have been hitting 8 iron. He ended up a mile from the hole and thus the 3 putt. But he finished up with the needed par on 18 and the win. Sam Burns had a chance but couldn't make the putt when it was all on the line. Scottie had another good but not great tournament finished E and tied for 4th so hard to say he had a bod tourney, but he had so many chances and couldn't close them out. There were only 3 guys who finished in red numbers. Clark at -4, Burns at -3, and Tom Kim at -1.
Talk about blowing it!! You have to feel bad for Lottie Woad. Lottie Woad had all but made it official, needing just an 18-inch putt on the final hole Sunday to win the Meijer LPGA Classic. She had just dazzled on the 17th hole, holing out from a greenside bunker at Blythefield Country Club to take a one-shot lead into the final hole. Major winner Miyu Yamashita, who had already finished her round, wasn’t warming up for a potential playoff. She was standing and watching. Then the unthinkable happened. The usually unflappable Woad—ranked seventh in the world—missed her short putt. It lipped out and she three-putted for bogey, sending the tournament into a playoff. World No. 8 Yamashita shot a final-round eight-under 64 and won the first playoff hole, making a four-foot birdie putt to win. Woad had to return to the same green where she had just missed a short putt.
Speaking of Greg, Clark nearly joined him as the only ones to blow a 6 shot lead going into the final round in a major since the Masters became one in 1934.
How about all the negative press he Shinnecock crowd got for their treatment of Clark? I don't get it why they didn't like him and rooted against him, I mean I wanted Burns to win in the end but I wouldn't have jeered at Clark. He seems like a good guy and he's an American.
It's New York. I really can't understand real golfers being like that. Of course, the tour seems to encourage that type of crowd. Do they think they can celebrate that type of activity at some venues and then just turn it off on command?
I was rooting for Clark. I think it was a combination of his bad behavior last year (which he has apologized for multiple times and tried to make up for it), and their wanting Scottie to get the Career Grand Slam. Plus it's New York.
I was watching some random conversation on the golf channel. One of the guys said the bad crowd behavior is limited to Long Island and that other courses around NYC are not like that. I can't remember his name.
Terry, you just reminded me that the guy who I didn't recognize and whose name I can't remember said that they should pull the 2033 (?) tournament from Bethpage.