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‘Get cocky and go show them who you are’: The advice that helped Wyndham Clark win the U.S. Open

Related Topics: Lise Clark, Wyndham Clark

LOS ANGELES — As he walked down the eighth fairway on Sunday afternoon, the leader of the U.S. Open might as well have been a ghost. Most of the gallery at Los Angeles Country Club was too busy screaming encouragement to fading Rickie Fowler to pay any attention to Wyndham Clark.

You got this, Rick!

Let’s go, Rickie!

You’re more handsome!

Then one middle-aged heckler finally addressed Clark and didn’t hold back.

“Sorry, Wyndham, we don’t really care about you,” he shouted at Clark. “We don’t know your story yet.