The 2026 U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club in Tuckahoe, N.Y., is entering its final two rounds, and one golfer has performed head and shoulders above his competition to this point.
This would be American golfer Wyndham Clark, who led at 7 under par heading into Saturday’s third round. There’s still plenty of golf left to play, but the fact that he was four strokes ahead of his second-place competitors means that he has some breathing room entering the biggest two rounds of his 2026 season.
The good news for Clark is that he has been in this position before. His breakout moment as a professional came when he won the 2023 U.S. Open at Los Angeles Country Club, which marked the one and only major tournament championship win in his career.
Another positive factor for Clark is that he has in-person support this weekend, in the form of his girlfriend, Emily Tanner.
These two went Instagram official with their relationship during the Masters’ Par 3 Contest earlier this year and are still going strong, which is shown by Tanner being by Clark’s side at the U.S. Open in New York this weekend.
Tanner is active on social media, often showing off the outfits she wears to Clark’s tournaments. Another example of this arrived before the U.S. Open began earlier this week, when she made an Instagram post that showed off several potential outfits for the weekend.
The post was captioned, “what I’m wearing to the US open” and showed several outfits, including a light blue skirt she wore Thursday, a light blue dress, a white dress and another white outfit. All of them included her wearing sunglasses, and several also had a hat.
Tanner has already been seen wearing several of these outfits, so it will be interesting to see what she goes with on Saturday and Sunday.
