The ultra-exclusive, intensely private Beverly Hills club for decades had resisted publicity. The focus gradually shifted by Thursday as anticipation built for Los Angeles Country Club to open its gates to the public. “I think the general feeling,” two-time major champion Jon Rahm said, “is that a lot of people feel a bit of betrayal from management.” That included those who accepted vast sums of money to join LIV Golf and those who passed out of loyalty to the PGA Tour and ethical concerns about Saudi Arabia’s history of human rights violations.
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Open complained that they were blindsided by the announcement and still clueless about the future of professional golf. Players who addressed the media before the U.S. The PGA Tour and Saudi-backed LIV Golf hijacked the spotlight with their stunning alliance after more than a year of full-blown civil war. Open wasn’t even the biggest story in golf when players began arriving in Los Angeles last Monday. (Ross Kinnaird/Getty Images)įor McIlroy, it was another close call, his third second-place finish and 19th top 10 since his last major victory way back in 2014 Wyndham Clark rode steady play and a nervy back nine to hang on for victory at the 123rd U.S. His lag putt rolled to within 17 inches, and one short putt later, Clark was an unlikely major champion. He landed his approach onto the green, almost 60 feet away from the pin. Clark's tee shot held the far right side of the wide fairway. Ahead of him, McIlroy rolled in another par to finish out an even-par round. That meant Clark walked to the 18th with a one-stroke lead. Behind him, Clark pulled his approach on 17 to the edge of Los Angeles Country Club's punishing rough, but darted his approach to tap-in distance. Standing on the 18th tee, McIlroy trailed by a single stroke. Facing a seven-foot putt to save par, perhaps the most crucial putt of his career, Clark burned the right edge to allow McIlroy back to within a stroke with two holes to play. Clark found the fairway bunker on the 16th and was forced to lay up. Clark made the only bogey of the entire day on the 139-yard 15th hole, while ahead of him McIlroy managed a long par save. Clark, playing in the final group, threaded his own approach onto the green - only the second player all day to reach the green in two strokes - and birdied the hole for a two-shot swing and a three-shot lead with four holes to play.īut this is the U.S. McIlroy’s approach on the par-5 hole embedded in the face of the greenside bunker, and the result - after relief - was a bogey to drop him to -9. Then came the pivotal 13th, where McIlroy finally stumbled and Clark stepped up. Clark, meanwhile, was on a wilder ride - three birdies against two bogeys on the front nine. Playing in the second-to-last group, McIlroy had spent the entire day playing steady golf - a birdie at the first followed by 11 straight pars. With five holes remaining, Clark stood at -11 and led McIlroy by a stroke.
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