Any golfer who’s spent enough time on the course will admit there have been moments they’re not proud of.
Golf has an incredible way of being both the best way to spend four and a half hours and the thing which can completely ruin a weekend
One of the reasons Scottie Scheffler is at the top of the game right now is his remarkable mental game. Nothing seems to impact the world number one’s outlook before each shot, even if the previous one was poor.
Not every player is as calm as Scheffler. When it comes to quick tempers, Tyrrell Hatton’s name often pops up first.
Still, Hatton tends to keep most of his anger on the course. One player who supposedly didn’t manage that last week is Wyndham Clark
Brandel Chamblee says that he would suspend Wyndham Clark as a commissioner
Social media posts after Oakmont surfaced showing several damaged lockers, and it wasn’t long before fingers pointed toward Clark.
When asked about the incident on The Favourite Chamblee, Brandel Chamblee didn’t hold back, saying the 2023 US Open winner should face serious consequences.
“I saw the pictures online. He’s not the first tour pro that’s had a temper tantrum in the locker room. I’ve witnessed one myself, which I’ve told a few times. I’m not going to throw the person under the bus, but he came in and opened his locker door hard and the door came off the hinges. He was close to me because his last name was close to mine alphabetically, and he had just blown it and lost on the last hole, made a big number and lost.
“The fella then, he was an older, known to be comically surly, player, and you typically walk out of the locker room and you always give them $100 or a couple hundred dollars for the attendant. ‘Thanks for everything you did this week’. And he just walked up and he pulled his chequebook out and he was like, ‘I’m going to write you a cheque for that locker. However much you tell me it is I’m going to double it and I apologise’. He did the wrong thing, but he did the right thing. I never forgot that,” he said.
“So when I saw the pictures of what Wyndham did, I thought wow, it was far worse than what I had witnessed, and it wasn’t one locker, it looked like three lockers. It was reprehensible for sure. You’re a guest in these clubs. You’re there for one week, and you’re a guest, you’re meant to behave like a guest.
“We live in an era where there are so many concessions being made to tour pros, and everybody sides with the tour pros on almost every single issue. It’s like they can do no wrong. But when they do wrong, they should be called out for it and fined for it. Hopefully, he’s going to face a significant fine. If I were the commissioner, I’d probably suspend him for a significant period of time to send a message to everybody else. That’s not how you behave. It’s not often you see somebody act like that. I’m not going to let that overshadow an otherwise wonderful Sunday. But it was certainly regrettable.”
How Wyndham Clark responded to the photos from the US Open
Clark was asked about the photos following his opening round at Travelers Championship on Thursday. He produced a superb 64 as he looks to turn his season around.
Speaking after the event, Clark acknowledged the incident, expressing regret for his actions.
“I’ve had a lot of highs and lows in my career, especially this year some lows. I made a mistake that I deeply regret. I’m very sorry for what happened,” Clark said.
“But I’d also like to move on, not only for myself but for Oakmont, for the USGA, and kind of focus on the rest of this year and things that come up. I still want to try to make the Ryder Cup team. I still am on the outside looking in for the FedExCup. So I’m starting to move on and focus on those things.”
This wasn’t Clark’s first major moment of frustration this season. During the PGA Championship, he threw his driver in anger, which led him to make a public apology later.
Clark became an easy target for critics after the photos went viral. However, this kind of situation also shows how professional players are subjected to various forms of pressure that the public cannot always understand.
Even so, Chamblee’s argument that action is needed isn’t without merit, especially given the pattern of behaviour this season.
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