Clark 'deeply regrets' damaging Oakmont locker

CROMWELL, Conn. -- Former U.S. Open champion Wyndham Clark said helium "deeply regrets" the harm done to the century-old locker helium was utilizing astatine Oakmont during the U.S. Open, his 2nd enactment of vexation that caused harm astatine a large this year.

Reports surfaced implicit the play that Clark damaged his locker. The USGA said lone that it works straight with players and their managers erstwhile it comes to subordinate conduct.

Clark, who bogeyed his past spread Friday to miss the chopped by 1 changeable astatine the U.S. Open, opened the Travelers Championship with a 64 connected Thursday. When asked to remark connected the Oakmont locker incident, Clark said: "Yeah, I mean, I've had a batch of highs and lows successful my career, particularly this twelvemonth immoderate lows.

"I made a mistake that I profoundly regret. I'm precise atrocious for what happened," helium said. "But I'd besides similar to determination on, not lone for myself but for Oakmont, for the USGA, and benignant of absorption connected the remainder of the twelvemonth and things that travel up."

Clark burst into prominence successful 2023 with 2 victories, including the U.S. Open, and a spot connected the Ryder Cup team. He won astatine Pebble Beach a twelvemonth aboriginal and qualified for the Olympics.

But helium has lone 1 top-10 decorativeness successful the past 9 months and has dropped to No. 27 successful the satellite ranking and No. 80 successful the FedEx Cup.

At the PGA Championship, helium deed his thrust to the close and slung his operator down him, damaging a motion connected the tee. The logo was that of 1 of his firm sponsors. Clark posted an apology for that incidental connected societal media.

"As professionals, we are expected to stay nonrecreational adjacent erstwhile frustrated and I unluckily fto my emotions get the champion of me. My actions were uncalled for and wholly inappropriate, making it wide that I person things I request to enactment on," Clark said past month.

"I committedness to amended the mode I grip my frustrations connected the people going forward, and anticipation you each tin forgive maine successful owed time."

Clark is No. 23 successful the Ryder Cup standings, with six players getting automatic spots. He has the 1 much signature lawsuit (Travelers) and 1 large (British Open) among tournaments near to amended his lasting successful the FedEx Cup. Only the apical 70 marque the postseason.

"I inactive privation to effort to marque the Ryder Cup team. I inactive americium connected the extracurricular looking successful for the FedEx Cup," Clark said. "So I'm starting to determination connected and absorption connected those things."