With high-performing Denver native Wyndham Clark sidelined by neck injury, his team is ousted in semifinals in inaugural season of TGL
By Gary Baines – 3/18/2025
In the midst of TGL’s semifinal match on Tuesday night, ESPN’s cameras captured Shane Lowry speaking about how his absent teammate, Wyndham Clark, was experiencing a serious case of FOMO (fear of missing out) as his Bay Hill Golf Club squad battled for a spot in the first title match in the indoor, simulator-based league.
And why not? The Denver native was the leading scorer during the TGL regular season. But after playing in each of The Bay Golf Club’s first five matches, Clark had to sit out Tuesday’s playoff semifinal due to a neck injury that had led the Colorado Golf Hall of Famer to withdraw after 27 holes of the Players Championship last week.
As it turned out, with Atlanta (Justin Thomas, Patrick Cantlay and Billy Horschel) never trailing in a 9-3 victory over The Bay (Ludvig Åberg, Min Woo Lee and Lowry), the season ended for Clark in absentia.
Clark and The Bay Club won their first four matches of the season before dropping their regular-season finale and their semifinal match. Next Monday and Tuesday, Atlanta will face New York Golf Club in a best-of-3 final in the inaugural season of TGL.
The Bay Golf Club had edged Atlanta in their regular-season matchup, 6-5 on Feb. 17.
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.
The total purse for the competition is $21 million, with the winning team receiving $9 million.
Clark’s Bay Club officially finished in fourth place, which was worth a collective $2 million.
For details from Tuesday’s match on ESPN, 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