Three-arms long shot at The Open 2023

The difficult situation for the new golfer to win the US Open occurred after he played the 14th par4 hole, hitting the audience's iPad. The ball hit the oxtail grass to the right of the fairway. On the second shot, he tried his best to get it to escape, but failed. Due to the desire to exert maximum force, the American golfer actively threw his right foot back to avoid injury. Golf Channel estimates the shot to be a maximum of 60 cm, while the tournament's professional system records 0 yards.

After that failure, he tried again, this time for 142 yards. Fourth shot from the high, Clark put the ball in nearly six meters from the hole and ended the hole on the fifth - put. It was Clark's only bogey in the opening match of The Open 2023. He went from hole 1, holding a par for the first half of the round, and scoring four birdies in the second half, alongside a 14th hole bogey.

"I was unlucky on the shot. It hit the audience, of course it wasn't good but if it weren't for that, my ball would have hit the grass more easily and from there would have been closer to the green on the second shot," Clark said at the end of the game. At the end of the first round, he finished T7 with a score of -3 while the top of the group was at -5, belonging to South African amateur Christo Lampretch and veteran PGA Tour duo – Emiliano Grillo, Tommy Fleetwood.

The Open was born in 1860, chaired by Royal & Ancient (R&A), this year in the 151st tournament, at Royal Liverpool par71 in Hoylake, England with a prize fund of 16.5 million USD, of which the championship is 3 million USD.

Clark is 29 years old this year, playing professional golf since 2017. On May 7, 2023, he won his first cup on the PGA Tour, at the Wells Fargo Championship. More than a month later, Clark reached a turning point in his career when he was crowned the major US Open champion at -10. In the US first-class golf arena, he has attended 139 tournaments with the combined prize money currently at 15.22 million USD. In this income, he received $ 3.6 million for each cup, when the PGA Tour was upgraded to a special category and equal to the $ 20 million prize fund with a prestigious event hosted by the American Golf Association.