Colorado Golf Hall of Famer Wyndham Clark a key player for the second straight year in Netflix’s ‘Full Swing’; Mark Wahlberg and Colorado native Paige Spiranac in Clark episode this time; meanwhile, Clark’s squad still unbeaten in TGL
By Gary Baines – 2/25/2025
Months after the second season of Netflix’s “Full Swing” documentary series dropped, Wyndham Clark admitted he hadn’t yet watched the episode in which he played such a prominent role.
“I lived it, so I let other people watch it,” Clark said last summer. “I always feel a little weird watching myself on TV.”
Well, the Denver native, Valor Christian High School alum and newly minted Colorado Golf Hall of Famer also figures prominently in season 3 of “Full Swing”, which was released on Tuesday.
Specifically, Clark and Australian Min Woo Lee — coincidentally teammates on the TGL’s The Bay Club squad — split time on the 40-minute episode 5, which focuses on two players battling for spots on their respective country’s Olympic golf squads, among other things.
Clark may not have been in any rush to watch his appearance in season 2 of Full Swing, but he fully appreciates that the show has given golf fans — and others — a better sense of the kind of person he is, most notably outside the ropes.
“People know who I am a lot more,” he told a Netflix crew at the beginning of this year’s episode 5. “I’ve never really been part of reality TV, but now it’s part of the reality for me. But the show has done so much good for getting my story out there. Honestly it’s amazing the amount of love that I’ve gotten from that.”
Last year, Full Swing focused not only on the fact that Clark won on the PGA Tour for the first time in 2023 — not once, but twice, including the U.S. Open — but him dealing with the death of his mom, Lise, due to breast cancer in 2013. Also, Netflix examined how Clark had successfully dealt with a pattern of negativity and some anger that had previously set in regarding his golf.
In the new season, besides the Full Swing episode following as Clark tried (successfully) to earn a U.S. Olympic berth, it delves some into his business relationship and friendship with actor Mark Wahlberg, centered around the company that makes and sells Municipal sports utility gear, which Wahlberg co-founded. There’s even a segment filmed in the lead-up to the BMW Championship at Castle Pines Golf Club in Castle Rock, where Clark speaks with social media sensation Paige Spiranac, with whom Clark played in Colorado Junior Golf Association events back in the day.
Regarding Wahlberg, the Academy Award nominee is shown on Full Swing interacting with Clark, then later reacting to Clark’s gut-wrenching 180-degree lipped-out putt on the 72nd hole of the Players Championship, which kept him from forcing a playoff with Scottie Scheffler.
“When you become a professional golfer you never think you’ll be working with a celebrity and someone especially like Mark Wahlberg who I grew up watching his movies,” Clark said on Full Swing. “Working on this brand together, which is super cool.”
Said Wahlberg: “When I saw Wyndham on the show (in 2024) I wanted to call him and commend him how he was opening up to people. He really touched me in a way where it’s like he’s going to motivate and inspire a lot of people to overcome things that have been holding them back from achieving their full potential. Just to see the way he conducts himself with the maturity and the grace that he did in opening up with the struggles he’s had, I thought, ‘That is the thing that moves the needle for other people.’
“To see him skyrocketing as a star and as a man is really impressive.”
As shown on Full Swing, Paige Spiranac and Clark chat at Castle Pines Golf Club during the week of the BMW Championship.
Later, viewers see some interaction between social media influencer Spiranac and Clark — appropriately enough in the state in which they both grew up, Colorado. As an amateur, Spiranac won the 2015 CWGA Match Play and the 2010 CWGA Junior Stroke Play, while Clark captured the 2010 CGA Amateur and the 2009 CGA Junior Stroke Play. Both are 31 years old.
While Colorado golf followers may be well aware of the Colorado roots for Clark and Spiranac, undoubtedly for others it’s less common knowledge.
“A lot of people don’t know this, but we’re both from Colorado,” Spiranac noted on Full Swing. “We grew up playing junior golf together, and now we’re here. … He was always going to be one of the best. Now he has to deal with all the pressure of people looking at him and having to compete week in and week out and being one of the top guys.”
While this particular Full Swing episode certainly has its share of interesting moments, its overarching narrative seems a bit forced. After all, the episode is titled “Two Tickets to Paris”. And while making an Olympic team is inarguably a goal of many athletes — Clark said, “I always dreamed of being an Olympian. Now to be part of that is another thing that I can check off my bucket list.” — viewers who watch this episode alone without knowing any better might get the impression there is nothing bigger in the sport of golf than the Olympics. Episode 5 takes us to the Players, the Masters and the U.S. Open with Clark and Lee, acting as if those tournaments themselves are secondary in importance to what good finishes there might mean in the quest to qualify for the Olympics. It’s a stretch. Netflix could have given due importance to Olympic golf without making majors and near majors seem to be mere window dressing in this particular episode.
The Clark/Lee episode is one of seven in season 3 of Full Swing after eight episodes were released each of the previous two years.
Clark’s Team Remains Undefeated in TGL: The Bay Golf Club, with Colorado Golf Hall of Famer Wyndham Clark one of its mainstays, remained the only unbeaten, untied team in the inaugural season of TGL indoor competition as it defeated Jupiter Links 6-3 on Tuesday night at the SoFi Center in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., with ESPN televising the action.
The Bay, which had clinched one of the four TGL playoff spots before Tuesday’s match, improved to 4-0. Its last regular season competition will be March 3 vs. Los Angeles at 1 p.m. (MT) on ESPN2.
Unlike The Bay’s last TGL match, where Clark clinched the victory with a walk-off eagle, he didn’t play a pivotal role on Tuesday. But he did set up teammate Min Woo Lee for birdies on holes 3 and 6.
The Bay pulled away with a three-point victory on hole 9 as Shane Lowry drained 6-foot eagle putt after two hammers (presses) had been thrown — one by each team.
The playoff semifinals for the indoor league that’s largely based around simulators are scheduled for March 17 and 18. Then a best-of-3 Final Series is set for March 24 and 25. The total purse for the competition is $21 million, with the winning team receiving $9 million.
In TGL, players hit full shots — off real grass and sand — to a 64-foot-by-53-foot simulator screen, before moving to a 22,000-square-foot short-game area, which includes putting on an adjustable green. All told, there’s 250,000 square feet of playing area.
For Tuesday’s results, CLICK HERE.
About the Writer: Gary Baines has covered golf in Colorado continuously since 1983. He was a sports writer at the Daily Camera newspaper in Boulder, then the sports editor there, and has written regularly for ColoradoGolf.org since 2009. The University of Colorado Evans Scholar alum was inducted into the Colorado Golf Hall of Fame in 2022. He owns and operates ColoradoGolfJournal.com