Wyndham Clark stopped by the show fresh off his second US Open title, and the man was, by his own cheerful admission, still celebrating. Asked how he was doing, the two-time champion did not undersell it. "I couldn't be better," he said. When the show suggested a third would be even better, Clark played along. "Best things come in threes, but I'll take two for right now."
The celebration had a vintage on it. Clark revealed he was sipping a glass of Sancerre during the interview, a Tuesday afternoon toast, which prompted the show to raise a mug of black coffee from a Keurig in return. The wine has become part of his championship lore. After his first US Open, Clark drank Screaming Eagle, a tip of the cap to Stan Kroenke. This time the cup held a 1995 Sassicaia, his favorite wine, no offense intended to the Screaming Eagle.
The party that followed sounded worthy of a major. Clark described a beach club in the Hamptons packed with friends, family and a few people he did not even know, food out, open bar, everything flowing. They passed the trophy around all night, everyone drinking from it and trading stories. It did not wrap until 5 a.m. The night even featured a competitive ping-pong run that did not go Clark's way. Pulled over to beat his brother because no one else could, Clark lost, blaming a few too many sips from the cup and conceding his brother is "kind of my like, you know, kryptonite."
The most touching thread was his father. Clark explained that his dad, Randall, had never been able to watch him win in person across his five tournament victories, until Sunday. Dan Hicks kept noting on the broadcast that dad had flown in from Denver without Wyndham knowing, and the cameras caught the moment after the win when Clark realized he was there. "It really did catch me off guard, and I was just so happy I could share that with him," he said. Randall took a red eye to be there, then powered through on espresso and got his own turn drinking from the trophy alongside all his kids. "I'm pretty sure he was in dad heaven."
Chris Brockman steered things back to the golf, asking whether Clark scoreboard-watched down the stretch. Clark admitted he started peeking around the 12th hole with six to play, trying to gauge whether to be aggressive or conservative. He worked to stay within himself and focus on what he could control, his own game and process, rather than the dwindling margin and the crowd noise.
The show could not resist asking about the lie on 16, which his caddie Bones had made sound like the worst in golf history. Clark owned that it was bad but credited himself for getting the club on the back of the ball, the key to escaping thick rough, and tied it back to the gym work that lets him hack out of trouble. He has not gone back to rewatch any of it. As he put it, he has been too busy celebrating and doing interviews to even practice, which the show rightly filed under the best first-world problem there is.
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Adapted from the original segment on The Rich Eisen Show. How we cover the show.