Tap-in birdies on last 2 holes give Wyndham Clark his first PGA Tour top-10 in over 2 months; Denver native surpasses $25 million in career earnings on Tour
By Gary Baines – 6/23/2024
It had been more than two months since Wyndham Clark had posted a top-10 finish on the PGA Tour. That may not seem like a long time, but considering the Denver native has won three times on Tour in the last 14 months and is ranked No. 5 in the world, it likely was an uncomfortably long stretch for the 2024 U.S. Olympian.
Also, Clark had struggled significantly by his standards in his last four starts of the spring, with two missed cuts and a best finish of 47th place.
But on Sunday at the Travelers Championship in Cromwell, Conn., the impending Colorado Golf Hall of Famer posted the 22nd top-10 in his 158 PGA Tour starts.
What made it particularly impressive was the way Clark did it down the stretch. The Valor Christian grad birdied his last four holes — and five of his last six. And his birdie putts came from 6 inches on No. 17 and from 20 inches on 18 — both par-4s.
For the day, the 30-year-old posted a 7-under-par 63, making an eagle, seven birdies and two bogeys. Overall for the week, Clark ended up at 17 under par, five strokes behind champion Scottie Scheffler, who won for the sixth time in 2024.
The showing earned Clark $520,000, which pushed him past $25 million in career money on the PGA Tour ($25,408,510 total). That means he’s averaged a little over $160k per PGA Tour start.
To put that into perspective, fellow Colorado Golf Hall of Famer Hale Irwin earned $5,966,031 in his PGA Tour career, which included 20 victories.
For all the scores from the Travelers Championship, 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