Trump ignores Clarks U.S. Open win after insane | Golf News

Donald Trump is understood for injecting himself into numerous narratives, but he remained silent following Wyndham Clark’s victory at the U.S. Open.

The Colorado golfer secured his second national championship, holding off Sam Burns by a single stroke at Shinnecock Hills on Sunday. His accomplishment proved significantly exceptional given the unfriendly environment, with quite a few spectators overtly rooting against him.

The 32-year-old’s public image has deteriorated over the last yr following two incidents that alienated followers. At the 2025 PGA Championship, Clark threw his driver at an promoting board following a disappointing tee shot, and a month later, he vandalized an Oakmont locker after failing to make the cut at the U.S. Open.

His response to these episodes additional broken his repute. President Trump, a passionate golfer who continuously voices his views on the game, didn’t acknowledge Clark’s Sunday triumph on his Truth Social platform.

The President had beforehand congratulated Rory McIlroy following his Masters victory in April.

Clark, whose past social media presence signifies help for Trump, might have obtained a non-public telephone call from the President, comparable to when he captured his first U.S. Open title in 2023 by defeating McIlroy by one stroke at Los Angeles Country Club. “I acquired a call after the U.S. Open from Donald Trump, the current president,” Clark said earlier this yr.

“That was insane. It was about a two or three-minute call, and we actually put it on speaker. I was with my family. My agent, Rob, he recorded it so that we could always have it. That was pretty neat.”

Naturally, Trump has quite a few urgent issues to handle in the Oval Office, particularly the Iran War, but that did not forestall him from celebrating news that golf’s governing our bodies had postponed the golf ball rollback on the eve of the U.S. Open. The proposal to restrict the space functionality of golf balls has been suspended until at least 2023.

On Truth Social, he wrote: “Congratulations to Commissioner Brian Rolapp, the PGA Tour, and the governing bodies, and also, the Great U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jay Clayton, for a BIG VICTORY where the USGA wanted to roll back the distance of a golf ball, for whatever reason, and now they are precluded from doing so, at least for a long number of years”.

He continued: “It was a ridiculous idea, that nobody wanted, especially PGA Tour players, and people that don’t want to go to a course to be told that their drives will be going 20 yards shorter.

“What the USGA ought to do is agree that, far into the future, they won’t enable the current ball to go additional. In other phrases, they’ll keep the ball the same!

“The game of golf is ‘hot as a pistol.’ The last thing we should do is tell people that, for no reason whatsoever, you will not be able to hit a ball as far as you used to. Has anyone ever heard of anything so ridiculous? President DONALD J. TRUMP.”