Another top 10 at Tour Championship earns Wyndham Clark a hefty bonus, this time $2.25 million; fellow Colorado native Jennifer Kupcho places sixth in LPGA event
By Gary Baines – 9/1/2024
For the second consecutive year, a PGA Tour season that featured at least one victory for Denver native Wyndham Clark also produced a very hefty bonus at season end.
The Valor Christian graduate finished eighth Sunday in the Tour Championship in Atlanta, earning $2.25 million from the FedExCup Playoff bonus pool in the process.
This comes after last year, in his Tour Championship debut, he placed third and received $5 million from the FedExCup.
Clark posted rounds of 67-67-68-69 this week and — after starting at 4 under par under the Tour Championship’s unusual format — finished at 17 under, 13 strokes behind champion Scottie Scheffler, who earned $25 million in FedExCup bonus money. Scheffler notched his seventh PGA Tour victory of the year — the most since Tiger Woods in 2007 — and that’s in addition to him winning gold in the Olympic tournament, which doesn’t count as an official Tour victory.
This year’s FedExCup Playoffs included a stop in Colorado for just the second time, as the BMW Championship was held at Castle Pines Golf Club in Castle Rock Aug. 22-25.
For the year, Clark recorded eight top-10s on the PGA Tour, including a win, two second places and a third. In his last four tournament starts, including the Olympics, Clark hasn’t been outside the top 15.
For all the scores from Atlanta, CLICK HERE.
Elsewhere in local Tour golf:
— Fellow Colorado native Jennifer Kupcho, who like Clark will be inducted into the Colorado Golf Hall of Fame on Dec. 1, also notched a top-10 on Sunday.
Kupcho, who this week was named to the U.S. Solheim Cup team for the third time, tied for sixth on Sunday at the LPGA Tour’s FM Championship in Norton, Mass.
Kupcho closed with a bogey-free 7-under-par 65 — and made an eagle on her last hole — to check in at 11 under for four rounds, four strokes behind winner Haeran Ryu. The performance was worth $103,487 to Kupcho.
It was Kupcho’s fifth top-10 of the year on the LPGA circuit.
For all the scores from Norton, Mass, 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