- Nick Hardy, for the second year in a row, was our low finisher his four-day total of plus 1 (281) was good enough for a tie for 20th and earned him $200,152.  Dylan Wu who got in thanks to his birdie on the first playoff hole at the Springfield final finished in a tie for 32nd and banked $108,001.  Our Low scorer from Springfield’s Final Stage, Samuel Stevens finished in a tie for 43rd with a 5 over par performance and he took home $66,532 and our final 72 hole finisher was our 1st alternate, who was the last into the Championship field, and our low amateur at SCC, Maxwell Moldovan.  He turned in a 17 over par total of 297 which had him in last position of those who made the cut.  As Max is still an amateur, he did not receive any purse money.  

Our other qualifiers, Taylor Pendrith and Alex Schaake missed the cut. 

This years qualifiers set our Springfield Final Stage high mark in number of qualifiers to make the cut with 4. 

Our Lowest finishing qualifier was John Peterson, who finished in a tie for 4th in 2012, when it was at the Olympic Club and won by Webb Simpson

• The scoring average this week was 71.76, the lowest in U.S. Open history.  However, in terms of score relative to par, this was the fourth lowest (+1.76), behind 2017 (+1.20), 2019 (+1.35) and 1990 (+1.47). 

• Lowest winning scores relative to par by U.S. Open winners:
• 2011 – Rory McIlroy – Congressional CC – 16 Under
• 2017 – Brooks Koepka – Erin Hills – 16 Under
• 2019 – Gary Woodland – Pebble Beach – 13 Under
• 2000 – Tiger Woods – Pebble Beach – 12 Under
• 2023 – Wyndham Clark – Los Angeles CC – 10 Under 

• This marks the third year in a row that the U.S. Open champion won his first career major, doing so by one shot over a minted major champion.   Matthew Fitzpatrick won by one shot over Scottie Scheffler (and Will Zalatoris) last year; Jon Rahm won in 2021 by one shot over Louis Oosthuizen in 2021.

• Wyndham Clark ranked in the top five in both Strokes Gained Off the Tee (2nd) and Strokes Gained Putting (4th).  Prior to this week, Clark played in 69 measured tournaments, and he finished in the top 10 in both categories one time.  That was at the 2022 Farmers Insurance Open (9th, 1st) where he finished T-56.

• This was the first time that Wyndham Clark has made the cut at the U.S. Open. Over the last 100 years he is just the fourth player to win the U.S. Open the first time he made the cut, joining: Lucas Glover (2009), Lee Janzen (1993) and Orville Moody (1969).

• Wyndham Clark if the fifth player over the last 50 years to win a PGA TOUR event (Wells Fargo in early May) and then won the U.S. Open within the next 60 days. He joins:
• Curtis Strange won the 1988 Memorial Tournament and the U.S. Open three weeks later;
• Tom Kite won the 1992 BellSouth Classic and then the U.S. Open six weeks later; 
• Tiger Woods won the 2000 Memorial and the U.S. Open three weeks later; and 
• Martin Kaymer won THE PLAYERS championship in 2014 and then won the U.S. Open just over a month later.

• Since 2000, players who won their first major championship in their first seven career major appearances:
• Ben Curtis - 2003 Open - 1st Appearance
• Keegan Bradley - 2011 PGA - 1st Appearance
• Collin Morikawa - 2020 PGA - 2nd Appearance
• Shaun Micheel - 2003 PGA - 3rd Appearance
• Rich Beem - 2002 PGA - 4th Appearance
• Webb Simpson - 2012 U.S. Open - 5th Appearance
• Todd Hamilton - 2004 Open - 7th Appearance
• Wyndham Clark - 2023 U.S. Open – 7th Appearance

• Wyndham Clark (+1 over his last nine holes) is the first U.S. Open Champion to shoot over par on the back nine on Sunday since Justin Rose at Merion in 2013 (+1).

• Wyndham Clark (#32) is the lowest-ranked U.S. Open winner since Graeme McDowell (#37) won at Pebble Beach in 2010.

• Low Amateur Gordon Sargent (69-71-75-69) is the sixth amateur to have a pair of rounds in the 60s at a U.S. Open, joining Viktor Hovland (2019 Pebble Beach), Brian Campbell (2015 Chambers Bay), Scott Verplank (1985 Oakland Hills), Lanny Wadkins (1971 Merion) and Marty Fleckman (1967 Baltusrol).