exclusive details Mark Cannizzaro Wyndham Clark surprised by father after tumultuous US Open win that wasn’t one-man job: ‘What a warrior’ By Mark Cannizzaro Published June 21, 2026, 10:08 p.m. ET Wyndham Clark celebrates with his father Randall Clark after winning the 126th U.S. Open Golf Championship. Corey Sipkin/UPI/Shutterstock Help.
Without it, Wyndham Clark would not have won the U.S. Open on Sunday at Shinnecock Hills on a day that, for hours, suggested he was going to blow the six-shot lead he took into the final round.
Without it, he wouldn’t have won the 2023 U.S. Open at L.A. Country Club.
Without it, Clark might never have gotten over the death of his mother, Lise, to Stage 4 metastatic breast cancer in August 2013, when he was a 19-year-old freshman at Oklahoma State, a tragedy that nearly pushed him to quit golf.
