This week’s Ten Things digs into the newly wide-open Player of the Year race between Scottie Scheffler and Wyndham Clark, previews the Tour Championship at East Lake, and asks whether Rory McIlroy’s BMW Championship form signals a late-season resurgence.
Half of the Presidents Cup teams are now set, with Scottie Scheffler leading the US automatic qualifiers, while Adam Scott and Min Woo Lee hold the inside track for the International team.
Adam Scott has qualified for his 14th Tour Championship at age 46, joining fellow Australian Min Woo Lee, as Wyndham Clark held off Rory McIlroy to win the BMW Championship.
Wyndham Clark held off Rory McIlroy to win the BMW Championship, overcoming a squandered 54-hole lead thanks to clutch birdies and his Ping onset putter.
Rotowire surveyed 750 professional golfers to find out who they like least on tour, and the results throw up a few genuine surprises. Patrick Reed tops the list, but he’s got good company.
Wyndham Clark’s Monday practice session at Royal Birkdale featured one of the more unusual training aids in recent memory, a wooden coat hanger, used to fix his wrist angle ahead of the Open Championship.
Wyndham Clark wasn’t just playing against the field on the final day at the US Open. He had to hold his own against a vocal and partisan crowd at Shinnecock Hills that had not just been rooting for his rivals but also cheering against him.
After two days of grumbling that the setup lacked teeth, Shinnecock Hills and the USGA found their nerve, leaning into everything the course is capable of, and perhaps announcing what the final day intends.
Yet if the first 54 holes were a test of patience and perseverance, the final 18 will be a uniquely challenging task. A six-shot lead would seem to be too difficult to lose, save for the fact that one of the chasers, and the one playing with him in the final pairing, will be Scottie Scheffler.
On a day marked by Clark continuing to pour in clutch par putts, he had a chance to go on the offensive on the par-5 16th. And, boy, did he take advantage.
Australian Golf Digest
