A walk-off winner for Wyndham (Clark) as the Colorado Golf Hall of Famer sinks eagle putt on final hole to cap 2-win day for his team as it remains undefeated in TGL indoor competition
By Gary Baines – 2/17/2025
Wyndham Clark and the Bay Boys are ruling indoor golf.
So far, anyway.
Clark, the Denver native and Colorado Golf Hall of Famer, sank a 10-foot eagle putt on the final hole to lift The Bay Golf Club to a 5-4 victory over Rory McIlroy and Boston Common Golf Monday night, capping a TGL tripleheader at the SoFi Center in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.
With that walk-off win for Wyndham, Bay Golf Club scored back-to-back victories Monday on national TV in this new indoor league that’s based largely around simulators.
“Everyone is chipping in and having their moment and I hadn’t really had mine,” Clark noted afterward. “Especially after missing that putt earlier (on No. 12, where a 7-foot birdie would have given The Bay Golf Club a big lead), it was nice to redeem myself and make the game-winning putt.”
Clark squared off against former Masters champion Hideki Matsuyama in the singles portion of the competition as the teams were tied going into the 15th and final hole. Both players hit stellar tee shots and approaches on a simulated par-5 through canyons. After Matsuyama just missed his eagle attempt from 18 feet, Boston Common called a timeout to try to ice Clark as he stood over his 10-foot eagle try. But after regrouping, he calmly drained the winning putt and celebrated the victory with gusto with teammates Ludwig Åberg and Shane Lowry.
“My heart is still pumping,” the Valor Christian graduate said. “You really do get the nerves going, especially on putts like that at the end. … When they tried to ice me, I really think it made it easier. Now we had more time and I didn’t have to putt with that (increased) heartbeat. It actually worked in our favor.”
Of the six four-man teams competing in TGL, The Bay Golf Club not only leads the standings, but is the only undefeated and untied squad — at 3-0.
With two regular-season round-robin matches remaining, Clark and Bay Golf Club teammates Åberg, Lowry and Min Woo Lee are in extremely good shape to be one of the teams to advance to the playoffs. Bay’s remaining regular-season matches are Feb. 25 and March 3. The playoff semifinals are scheduled for March 17 and 18, then a best-of-3 Final Series March 24 and 25. The total purse for the competition is $21 million, with the winning team receiving $9 million.
“It’s huge” to be undefeated, Clark said. “We know we’re in the playoffs now and we continue the momentum. There’s nothing better than riding high on good confidence. It was a great day, a lot of fun. I felt like we again played awesome golf.”
Clark (center) congratulates Ludvig Åberg on a hole-winning birdie putt.
Earlier Monday, The Bay Golf Club notched another one-point victory — prevailing 6-5 over a previously unbeaten Atlanta team led by Justin Thomas and Patrick Cantlay. In that match, Clark made a 20-foot birdie that helped give Bay Golf Club a 3-0 early lead. He also hit some impressive shots into greens which set up some other winning holes.
With Åberg winning the Genesis Invitational on Sunday in La Jolla, Calif., it’s been a nice run by him and the 3-0 Bay Golf Club.
Clark, winner of three PGA Tour events including a U.S. Open, is certainly enjoying his team’s success so far in TGL.
“I wish I had this much fun on the golf course,” he said. “When I come here, I don’t know what it is. Maybe it’s a little bit of the team aspect, the atmosphere, the light-heartedness. I feel like I can just be myself and have fun. I typically play well when I’m having fun and I’m loose. And I think that happens a lot in TGL. I would love if I could bring that to the real course.”
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.
TGL’s 15-hole matches include nine holes of Triples (3-on-3 alternate shot) followed by six holes of Singles. Each hole starts out being worth 1 point to the team with the fewest strokes, while tied holes count for 0, with no carryovers. Throwing an accepted “hammer” adds 1 to the point value for a given hole.
The Bay Golf Club’s “caddie” once again on Monday was another Valor Christian alum. Josh Seiple.
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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