There came a point where Wyndham Clark (Denver, 1993) said enough was enough. After flirting with giving up golf on several occasions, it was time to make a decision. I could no longer be frustrated. To break sticks To get angry In short, not to behave as it should. “It was either that or leave it,” she confessed about the decision to start working with Julie Elion, a mental coach. That was only six months ago. A brief period of time, but enough to have won his first title on the PGA Tour, the Wells
Clark’s, known only to the specialized public, was undoubtedly an unexpected victory. In six participations in Grand Slam tournaments, his best result had been a 75th place, a more than discreet resume to which he added two missed cuts in the open of his country. All that changed on Sunday, when he was able to withstand the pressure of heavyweights like Rory McIlroy or Scottie Scheffler, number one in the world, to send a message to the world from Los Angeles, a very special city for the man from Colorado.
Because Clark’s victory was also especially emotional. He had spent the entire week receiving messages from friends of his mother with childhood photos of her, many of which he had never even seen. Lise Thevenet Clark had lived in Los Angeles for a time in her life. It was there that she met and fell in love with Robert, whom she married at the Riviera Country Club before moving to Denver, where the new US Open champion would be born, the middle of three brothers. The hug of the three (Kaitlin, Wyndham and Brendan) on the 18th green, watered with tears, was of a gigantic depth. Everyone remembered her mother, who suffered breast cancer in 2013.
That tragic event accentuated the complicated character of Clark, who began his career at Oklahoma State University and had to transfer to Oregon. “I was at the lowest point of my life, what happened to my mother marked me,” he admitted.
Before she died, Lise Clark conveyed a message to Wyndham: “Play big” (play big, risk, aim for everything). And Wyndham has listened to him.
