With the whole {golfing} world watching, Wyndham Clark captured his first main championship on the 123rd U.S. Open on the Los Angeles Nation Membership.

Clark shot an even-par 70 Sunday. He stayed even-keeled all through the spherical and completed one stroke forward of Rory McIlroy, maybe the most well-liked participant on the planet and one of many biggest golfers of his technology.

Clark’s gutsy victory in Southern California marks the second time he has received this 12 months. He received the Wells Fargo Championship in Could, two weeks earlier than the PGA Championship.

However in January, Clark was the One hundred and sixtieth-ranked participant on the earth.

Even crazier, ultimately 12 months’s U.S. Open, received by Matt Fitzpatrick, the Official World Golf Rating had Clark as their 239th-ranked golfer.

Now he’s the U.S. Open champion and appears like he belongs on golf’s greatest stage.

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“I really feel like I belong on this stage,” Clark mentioned after his spherical. “Even two and three years in the past, when individuals didn’t know who I used to be, I felt like I may nonetheless play and compete in opposition to one of the best gamers on the earth. I felt like I’ve proven that this 12 months.”

“Clearly, this simply exhibits what I consider can occur.”

Clark entered the ultimate spherical because the 54-hole co-leader alongside Rickie Fowler, one other one of many extra common golfers within the sport.

Together with McIlroy, Scottie Scheffler, the top-ranked participant on the earth, lurked not too far behind the leaders.

However none of that bothered Clark, as he was clearly one of the best participant on the brightest stage within the Hollywood Hills on Sunday.

And regardless of not having the immense recognition of the PGA Tour’s high stars, Clark’s victory at LACC lit up {the golfing} world:

Whether or not or not followers are disenchanted Fowler or McIlroy didn’t win, it’s arduous to argue that nobody deserved this greater than Clark did.