Wyndham Clark has withdrawn from The Gamers Championship after enjoying solely 27 holes.
The 2023 U.S. Open champion referred to as it quits after capturing a 4-over 40 on the entrance 9, which included a double-bogey seven on the par-5 2nd. He additionally had a pair of three putts on the par-3 third and par-4 fifth holes and no birdies to indicate.
The PGA Tour didn’t clarify why Clark withdrew, however on the time of his early exit, he sat at 4-over par for the championship — effectively beneath the projected cut-line of even par.
Clark entered this week with 60-to-1 odds to win, tied with Corey Conners for having the fifteenth finest odds of this week’s 144-man subject.
His final victory got here on the AT&T Pebble Seashore Professional-Am in February 2024. Clark then completed runner-up to Scottie Scheffler at TPC Sawgrass one month later.
The previous Oregon Duck’s finest end up to now in 2025 got here at The Sentry, the place he tied for fifteenth. He most just lately posted a T-22 ultimately week’s Arnold Palmer Invitational and even held the primary spherical lead all by himself. However he struggled over the weekend.
Then, forward of this week’s Gamers, Clark talked about residing as much as lofty expectations, and the way irritating that may be.
“It’s humorous how you’ve gotten success and also you win a significant, you win some tournaments, after which everybody expects you to do this on a regular basis. Scottie [Scheffler] is doing that on a regular basis, and it’s very spectacular, however nobody else is admittedly doing that,” Clark mentioned.
“It’s put some undue strain, I really feel like, on me particularly as a result of if I went and I made all 4 cuts within the majors and contended one time, that’s really not that unhealthy, or if I missed three of the cuts and completed fourth at one of many majors, I’d have taken that three years in the past. It’s robust as a result of generally your expectations get skewed by the media or exterior folks. I’m simply attempting to get again into enjoying good golf and having fun with it and never elevating these expectations as a result of they’ve been raised a bit bit. I really feel prefer it’s damage me a bit bit.”
Sadly for Clark, his finest golf didn’t present up this week at TPC Sawgrass.
Jack Milko is a golf workers author for SB Nation’s Taking part in By. Comply with him on X @jack_milko.
