Wyndham Clark lashes out at USGA for U.S. Open ‘twilight golf’
As we enter the ultimate spherical of the 2023 U.S. Open, the leaderboard is chalk full of massive names. Rory McIlroy will play alongside Scottie Scheffler within the penultimate pairing Sunday. They’ll come earlier than Rickie Fowler and the shock of the match, Wyndham Clark.
Clark, after posting his third straight spherical within the 60s on the Los Angeles Nation Membership, met with media to debate his spherical. Regardless of being happy with how he performed Saturday, he couldn’t assist however put the USGA on blast.
“It’s a bit ridiculous we teed off that late. I’d say proper round gap 15 or 16 it began attending to the place you couldn’t see that effectively… We performed twilight golf… I 100% assume my bogey on 17 was as a result of I couldn’t see, and I believe Rickie’s bogey on 18 was as a result of he couldn’t see,” Clark mentioned visibly annoyed.
Clark and Fowler weren’t slated to tee off till 6:45pm ET and didn’t end till roughly 11pm ET. It feels like he has some extent.
“It positively was a problem. 17 and 18… I actually couldn’t see, and we simply performed off of really feel and the way Rickie’s putt got here in, after which my putt on 18, identical factor.”
The primary group didn’t tee off till simply after midday on the east coast. They very simply might have moved these tee instances up, eliminating this situation.
“It’s loopy to assume that we’re doing that on the final two holes of a significant after we might have teed off two hours earlier. Hopefully tomorrow we don’t have that situation.” Inform us what you actually assume Wyndham.
“Positively Rickie and I had a bit little bit of a drawback on these final two holes taking part in at nighttime… I’ve by no means actually performed a ultimate spherical of any match at nighttime.”
Simply in case you might be questioning why Clark or Fowler didn’t name it, he addressed that additionally.
“Actually, we each might have known as it if we wished to on that placing inexperienced and mentioned, hey, I can’t see, and we’d play tomorrow, and I believe that will look fairly poorly on each side of it.”
As soon as once more, he’s proper. That might have been a black eye for the USGA if they didn’t end in time earlier than darkness. Not when there have been hours to play within the morning. But additionally, it might have created a notion amongst some followers that the golfers themselves have been copping out.
Curiously, Wyndham Clark just isn’t the one golfer to criticize the USGA this week. Brooks Koepka, Viktor Hovland and reigning U.S. Open champion Matt Fitzpatrick have all expressed displeasure, for one purpose or one other.
Tee instances have been launched for Sunday and the USGA has certainly moved them up, simply over an hour.
Clark and Fowler are slated to tee off at 5:30pm ET. They share the 54-hole lead at 10-under par. McIlroy is one shot again and Scheffler stalking three again. Buckle up, it must be a enjoyable trip.
