PGA Tour’s Wyndham Clark takes aim at LIV Golf’s Joaquin Niemann’s 59 at Mayakoba after shooting 60 at Pebble Beach.
PGA Tour star Wyndham Clark appeared to throw shade at Joaquin Niemann’s round of 59 at Mayakoba on LIV Golf after firing his own round of 60 at Pebble Beach.
In the third round on Saturday at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, Clark went out in 28 shots, tying the low 9-hole record. He then came back in 32 to record the lowest round in Pebble Beach history.
On the last three holes, the defending US Open champion missed three putts that would have won the tournament, including an eagle on hole 18.
With an enormous $20 million prize purse at stake, Clark’s unofficial course record round of 60 shot him straight to the top of the leaderboard in the PGA Tour’s first “full field” signature event of the season.
With eighteen holes remaining, he is currently one shot ahead of Sweden’s Ludvig Aberg at 17 under par.
But with bad weather predicted for both Sunday and Monday, there’s a good chance Clark will win the $3.6 million first prize after all. This could mean the tournament is shortened to 54 holes.
Officials from the competition will decide this afternoon whether or not to continue with the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.
Returning to the original narrative, however, it was Clark’s icy reaction to his own 60-hole round, which came just a day after Niemann set a new course record with a 59-hole round at Mayakoba in the opening round of the LIV Golf League, that has golf fans furious on social media.
Shortly after making a historic round of sixty by tapping in from inches away, Clark said:
“It simply means that Pebble Beach has more.”
The PGA Tour, which released a graphic with the caption “Wyndham Clark knows it,” also wholeheartedly endorsed his remarks.
This occurs in the same week that the PGA Tour and Strategic Sports Group (SSG) agreed to a massive $3 billion private investment, raising questions about the circuit’s framework agreement with the Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF).
Clark then went further:
“I don’t think it would compare to shooting a score like this at one of the most historic golf courses in the world, even if I had shot 59 somewhere.”
For context, it should be mentioned. Just two weeks ago, as the Saudi-funded circuit finalized its 2024 roster, Clark was strongly linked to a move to LIV Golf.
Although negotiations came dangerously close to Jon Rahm’s desire to have Clark join his team, the deal fell through, and Clark will play on the PGA Tour in 2024.
Rahm chose to pick up Tyrrell Hatton, his European Ryder Cup teammate, instead.
Some golf fans believe Clark is feeling a little aggrieved at not having got his big-money move to Rahm’s Legion XIII as a result of his latest salty comments aimed at LIV Golf.
Other golf fans think Clark is just talking plain nonsense, simply because preferred lies were in place during his round of 60 at Pebble Beach.
This indicates that when a player was on the fairway, they could raise, clean, and position their ball.
Data Golf experts regarded Niemann’s course-record 59 on Friday at Mayakoba in Mexico as the “fourth best round” since they started tracking the stat in 2016.
As a result, some admirers think Niemann’s round was significantly better than Clark’s 60 on a softer Pebble.
Entering the final round of LIV Golf Mayakoba, Niemann leads by four strokes.
GolfMagic put Niemann’s historic 59 and Clark’s 60 at Pebble to the vote to find out which one you consider the better round.
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