GOLF NEWS - Gary Woodland will forever be a US Open champion thanks to his three-shot victory at Pebble Beach on Sunday.
But the 35-year-old will likely be better known as "that golfer" in a viral video he appeared in four months ago from the far less glamorous Waste Management Phoenix Open that has had more than 20 million views and climbing.
And that is okay with Woodland, who until Sunday was the mostly anonymous figure playing second fiddle to Amy Bockerstette - a special Olympian golfer he credits with giving him the mental strength to see off a challenge from two-time defending US Open champion Brook Koepka to claim the biggest win of his career.
"She's meant everything for me from a mental standpoint," Woodland told reporters. "Life's not always going to be bells and whistles.
"There are going to be bad things in your life, a lot of ups and downs, but the only thing you can control is your attitude. And if you do that, in the end good things will happen.
"I said – Amy told me a million times when we were on this hole I've got this, I've got this, and I told myself that a million times today, I've got this."
