After years of grinding, after nearly losing his tour card a few times, golfer Wyndham Clark now looks down on the competition with a No. 5 world ranking. Clark returned to Colorado for the BMW Cha…
Wyndham Clark tees off on the first hole during the final round of the Travelers Championship golf tournament at TPC River Highlands, Sunday, June 23, 2024, in Cromwell, Conn. The summer after his sophomore year in college in 2013, Clark withdrew from the Western Amateur to return to Colorado. His mother, Lise, weakened by multiple battles with breast cancer, felt life emptying from her body.
Clark left Oklahoma State and revived his career at Oregon, given a reboot by coach Casey Martin and his assistant John Ellis. Ellis saw himself in Clark, a talented golfer who struggled with his temper and confidence. He became a rudder as Clark won Pac 12 Player of the Year honors and realized his mother’s dream for him of reaching the PGA Tour.
It was on this course Clark fell in love with golf, watching stars David Duval, Retief Goosen and Ernie Els compete on the ninth hole of The International, the unique tour event that used the Stableford scoring system. “We are all very skilled out here,” Clark said. “The difference between the top players and guys that are not top players is that ability to be able to focus on every shot and to be able to overcome adversity and the pressure.”
Clark has no problem thinking of himself as an athlete. There was a time he believed he was destined for stardom on the Valor Christian High School hoops team. The way he remembers it he was a better point guard than classmate Christian McCaffrey. McCaffrey disputes this notion. Even though the two are huge fans of each other’s careers, they cannot resist jabs.
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