Wyndham Clark wins fourth PGA Tour event

Colorado-raised PGA pro won the CJ Cup Byron Nelson for his fourth PGA Tour victory

By Jim Bebbington

Wyndham Clark used a flurry of birdies Sunday to shoot a final round of 60 and hold off Si Woo Kim and Scottie Scheffler to win the CJ Cup Byron Nelson, his fourth PGA Tour victory.

Clark was in second place at the start of Sunday’s final round then fired off nine birdies and an eagle to have the lowest final round score of any PGA Tour winner this year.

“Obviously I made a birdie on 14 and I look and Si Woo’s right there on my heels,” Clark said after the round. “Then I birdied 15, and I just knew I had to keep birdieing because I knew Si Woo was probably going to do the same thing, or even Scottie.”

Clark finished three shots up on second-place finisher Si Woo Kim and five on defending champion Scottie Scheffler. Clark was joined in the celebration at TPC Crag Ranch Golf Club in McKinney, Texas, by his girlfriend Emily Tanner, his brother and brother’s fiance, and friends.

“This one is very special in that sense; this will be a little bit more of a fun celebration because I have friends and family here,” he said.

Clark, 32, turned pro in 2017 but was not a household name until a nine-month stretch beginning in May 2023 when he won the Wells Fargo Championship, the U.S. Open and the AT&T Pebble Beach in quick succession. That run helped put him on the Ryder Cup Team for 2023 in Rome, and he was ranked in the Top 10 in the world.

But after a winless 2025 his play this season had shone his past flashes of brilliance alongside a sometimes wild driving pattern that would lead to just enough blow-up holes to keep him out of serious contention. Just a week ago he missed the cut on the number at the PGA Championship, held back by back-to-back double bogeys on Thursday and a triple bogey on Friday.

“It’s been a pretty heavy fall since being — I was even up to third in the world at some point in ’24,” he said. “It’s frustrating, but that’s golf. I went through kind of a tough spurt, not swinging it good, not feeling comfortable with a lot of things, and I did a lot of work this off-season working on my golf swing. Then I started hitting it better but wasn’t making the putts. Then finally landed on a great putter, and then everything’s been kind of coming together.”

He said he had been feeling increasingly confident in his game going into the PGA, but was trying to put all the pieces of the swing together.

“I felt like my game was trending,” he said. “Right before the PGA at home, I shot 64, 63, and 61 at the course — at Whisper Rock playing with some guys, and I felt really confident. Then I went to the PGA and just drove it the worst I’ve ever driven it, and that was really the difference. So I was really bummed because my game felt awesome going into PGA, but maybe it was just one week late. So getting here working on the driver, I felt confident. Then after the first round, I felt really good on the greens, and I said, okay, this could be a really fun, special week.”

Clark has now won two tournaments with final round scores of 60 – the CJ Cup Byron Nelson and the 2024 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, which he won with a blistering Saturday round before weather forced the cancellation of play on Sunday.

Clark has changed much of the team around him this year. He began working late last year with a new swing coach, Cherry Hills Country Club head pro , and earlier this year changed from his eight-year caddy John Ellis, whom he has known since he played at the University of Oregon, to Dave Pelekoudas, Xander Schauffele’s former caddy.

Clark earned $1.8 million for the win in Dallas. Denver’s Mark Hubbard also played well in the Byron Nelson, finishing tied for 31st and earning $58,930.

Perhaps even more important for Clark, the win gives him entry to the remaining PGA Tour signature events for the 2026 season. Those no-cut events pay more money and award more FedEx Cup points to players who perform well. He now has automatic entry into the Memorial Tournament the first week of June and the Travelers Championship June 22 to 28.

Jim Bebbington is the Editor of Colorado AvidGolfer and can be reached at [email protected]

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