It wasn't the Hollywood ending for the man from Holywood as Rory McIlroy once again came up just short in a major, with unheralded American Wyndham Clark winning the US Open by one shot to land his first major title.
It represented more heartache for McIlroy, whose nine-year wait for a fifth major goes on. Ad He was, once again, so close but yet so far as he carded a 70 to finish on nine-under at the Los Angeles Country Club, in a round that saw the Northern Irishman's putter fail to truly fire.
U.S. OpenFowler hits US Open two-round record to lead, McIlroy shares joint thirdYESTERDAY AT 07:56 The victory was a hugely emotional one for Clark, whose mother died of breast cancer in 2013. “I just felt like my mum was watching over me today and you know she can’t be here.
Miss you mum," Clark said. «US Opens are tough. I felt at ease though and kept saying to myself, 'I can do this, I can do this'. “There’s been so many times I’ve visualised being here in front of you guys and winning this championship, and I just feel like it was my time.” McIlroy, for his part, felt his own time will come again. »I'm right there, it's such fine margins," he told Sky Sports. «I have just got to keep putting myself in these positions.