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<\/p>\nWyndham Clark has apologised for “doing something awful” by damaging a locker during this year’s US Open at Oakmont and hopes his ban at that course will be lifted.<\/p>\n
Clark was reportedly suspended from the Pittsburgh venue after his outburst in June, which came after he missed the cut at the third men’s major of the year.<\/p>\n
The American – who won the US Open in Los Angeles in 2023, beating Rory McIlroy by one stroke – spoke about his Oakmont suspension after a fourth-placed finish in the Open Championship at Royal Portrush on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Clark said: “I did something awful, and I’m really sorry for it.<\/p>\n
“Hopefully, they have it in their heart to forgive me, and maybe in the future I’ll be able to play there. It’s a fantastic course and place. But that’s up to them.<\/p>\n
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Oakmont is due to host the 2033 US Open, with Clark permitted to return if he pays for damages, makes a “meaningful contribution” to a selected charity and undergoes anger management or counselling, according to a letter sent by club president John Lynch.<\/p>\n
Clark added: “I feel terrible about what happened. I’m doing anything I can to try to remedy the situation.<\/p>\n
“Obviously it’s a no-brainer to pay for the damages. That was a given. Then the apologies, and I want to give back to the community because I hurt a great place in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n
“I wanted to do anything I can to show them that what happened there was not a reflection of who I am and won’t happen again. I want to show them who I really am.”<\/p>\n
‘We were hoping ban was going to stay private’<\/p>\n
Clark did appear frustrated at Lynch’s letter being made public, though, saying “We were hoping it was going to be private.<\/p>\n
“I’ll just leave it at that.”<\/p>\n
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\n Clark has vowed to pay for damages after his Oakmont outburst<\/p>\n
The 31-year-old also lost his cool during the PGA Championship in May, hurling his driver and damaging a sign near the tee box.<\/p>\n
He added: “I’ve been pretty open about my mental shift and change to get better.<\/p>\n
“I did that in 2023 and 2024 – [but] the frustration and expectations after a tough year I did two stupid things.<\/p>\n
“One thing that it did do is wake me up and get me back into the person I know I am and the person I want to be.<\/p>\n
“I hope those things don’t reflect because I don’t think they reflect on who I am, and going forward that stuff is not going to happen again.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wyndham Clark has apologised for “doing something awful” by damaging a locker during this year’s US Open at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-13437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}