Despite a tournament-high 7 three-putts, Denver native Wyndham Clark didn’t leave the Masters without a few notable accomplishments
By Gary Baines – 4/13/2025
Wyndham Clark certainly had bigger things in mind than finishing 46th at the Masters on Sunday, but a few notable accomplishments came his way during the week at Augusta National.
Though he aspired to be in the final pairing on Sunday, instead he was finishing his last round on the 18th green nearby when Rory McIlroy and Bryson DeChambeau were just about to start theirs on No. 1.
Nevertheless, here’s a sampling of what Clark did this week:
— Having now competed in a dozen major championships, the Denver native actually posted his third-best showing in a major. Of course, he won the 2023 U.S. Open, and the only other one better was a 33rd place in the ’23 British Open.
— Clark, a 2024 Colorado Golf Hall of Fame inductee, has now made a cut in all four majors. He missed out on the weekend last year in his Masters debut, but advanced to the weekend this time. His career cuts-made tallies: one at the Masters, one at the PGA Championship, two at the U.S. Open and two at the British Open.
— This marked the first time in 11 years that a Colorado high school graduate has made the cut in the Masters. Clark is a product of Valor Christian. Kevin Stadler, a Kent Denver alum, placed eighth at Augusta National in 2014.
Wyndham Clark lines up an eagle try on the 15th hole on Sunday. He two-putted there for birdie.
In Sunday’s final round, Clark played well through 10 holes, standing 2 under par for the day at that point after going birdie-birdie at Nos. 1 and 2. But he made five bogeys in his final eight holes to shoot a 2-over-par 74, which left him at 5 over par total for the tournament.
This week, despite a solid putting round on Friday, Clark racked up seven three-putts, the most of any player in the Masters field. On Sunday, he missed five putts in the 5-10-foot range, but he also made six putts from 5 to 14 feet.
“I just struggled scoring here,” Clark said on Sunday. “It’s the greens. You hit it in to 12 feet and you’re playing two feet of break and if you miss it, it goes by 4 or 5 feet and you can easily three-putt. Then you put yourself in a spot where you have a really tough lag putt and it’s easy to three-putt.
“I had, I think, nine three-putts this week (actually seven), which is unprecedented for me, and then it’s just a very tough place. You have to hit a lot of greens and you have to really control your speed.”
Also certainly not helping matters for Clark were stretches of three consecutive bogeys on both Saturday and Sunday, and two water balls on Sunday. His back-to-back-to-back bogeys on Sunday came on holes 11-13, where he drew water twice.
Clark will return to action Thursday at the RBC Heritage at Hilton Head, where he placed third a year ago.
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Elsewhere in Professional Tour Golf: For the second time in the last month, Dan Erickson led going into the final round of a DP World Tour-affiliated event after shooting a sub-65 score the previous day. Three weeks after tying for sixth in the DP World Tour’s Porsche Singapore Classic, Erickson on Sunday placed third in the HotelPlanner Tour’s UAE Challenge in the Middle East. Erickson, whose family lived in northern Colorado and had a membership at TPC Colorado until moving recently, followed up a 63 with a 1-under-par 71 on Sunday to check in five strokes behind winner Renato Paratore. He earned 18,611 euros ($21,142). SCORES
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