Wynham Clark’s search for golf players that he is supposed to continue a year after his heart players.
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Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla – they say failure is the greatest teacher of life. This decline is the only way we learn how high we can climb.
Perhaps this is true for some, depending on the arena of life that exist. But in professional golf, where failure is much more likely, success – reaching the mountain – can often be the key to unlocking everything.
For Wynham Clark, his victory two years ago in 2023 US OPEN to Los Angeles Country Club He told him what he is capable of – the place where he can keep in the professional golf of elite men.
“I bet you most people would say they learn a lot after they lose. I lost a lot in my career,” Clark said on Wednesday at TPC Sawgrass in front of the 2025 player championship. Similar that I can rely on those moments, what I have learned during LACC. ”
As his open victory in the US serves as a guide light, Clark arrived at Tpc saw With last year’s players championship, Heartbreak still fresh in his mind. The wound of his tour-bound bird attempt, leaving the 72nd hole, serves as a evil reminder of what it may have been and what happened since then.
“The thing you get to me is right now – if I had, let’s say, you imagine all the holes and you had that stroke to force a play off and I miss you, you’re bummed,” Clark said Wednesday. “But I think the fact that I did birds 16, birds 17, and if I had birds 18, I would force a play off and win somewhat Play off, my mind goes to it could have been one of the best conclusions in player history, and would be shown in all different points for a long time. Time. ”
Clark arrived at the PGA Tour Flag event last year with a victory at Pebble Beach Pebble pro-am cut from the rain under his belt. He was fresh from a second place finish at Arnold Palmer Invitational and was definitely one of the best players in the world.
Then the edge came.
Clark then lost her cut in three of the four major, with a T56 finish at US Open serving as the only time she saw the weekend in one of the main golf events – those that create the narrative that the Golf world remembers.
Buza-Out, the type of players that Clark highlights did not want to be accompanied, may not have been the catalyst for his slide. But his journey to find Wynham Clark who raised the trophy in Lacc can begin in the place where the golf gods denied him.
“The edge outside was obviously difficult, but this is not really where I felt like I was lost,” Clark said. “But at the time, I felt like I was playing some of the best golf and definitely some of the most stable golf at PGA Tour. Then I followed it with good game on RBC, and then the year fell a little.
“I hope to try to go back to that quality golf. I felt like consistency was so great and always just a kind of knock on the door. “
Like so much in Golf, the search for lasting game, quality starts with a feeling. There is something tangible – not cleaned handcuffs or unclear discs. Something something only Clark can distinguish. The joy that comes from being the version of yourself aspiring. By not sacrificing the gift.
“My biggest thing is a kind of playing with my potential, and if it changes every day and every tournament, but I disappoint when I lack concentration, or get angry there, or I’m giving shots or don’t play with my potential,” Clark said. “These are things that irritate me. When I am enjoying myself in the golf course, I feel like I am maximizing those things. I’m having fun with my cadad. I’m really hugging the moment. These are things I’m trying to get back because I think I play my best golf when I’m in that mental state.
“I hope I’m there this week, and if not. I hope I’m building to get there in the coming weeks.”
At a turn of the fate that only sport, and golf, in particular, can give, Clark’s determination triumph prompted its rise and made the land relocate under its feet.
Wins and success increases their expectations. Expectations, especially unfulfilled ones, can make you crush and lead to the joy of sliding from your fingers. This is true for golf at every level. Endless searching for catching and bottles a feeling can induce anyone crazy, especially the longer it removes you.
“It’s been disappointing,” Clark said. “Funny funny how you succeed, and you win a major, you win some tours, and then everyone expects you to do it all the time.
“It is a kind of kind of unfair pressure on me especially … It’s hard because sometimes your expectations are attracted to either the media or out of the outside. My thing is, I’m just trying to get back to the good golf game and enjoying it and not raising the expectations because they have grown a little. I feel like it hurt me a little.”
Clark has made six beginnings this season. He has zero Top-10 conclusions and ranks 69th in total blows earned among players with at least 10 rounds of laps for Datagolf. It ranks 75th in SG: off the tee, 96 in access, 30th in green and 74 in placement.
He entered the Arnold Palmer Invitational last weekend two strokes after the leader of 36 Shane Lowry holes, but his chances quickly evaporated at the weekend thanks to a Saturday 76.
He reaches TPC Sawgrass still looking for golf and joy that was on the verge of capturing last year on a course that crowned and humiliated the kingdom of golf.
This search can be completed this week. It can be a standing stone at its desired destination. Or it could be another week on Wynham Clark’s journey to find the feeling he has been missing since luck rejected his list towards the player championship history.
Josh Schrock is a writer and reporter for golf. com before entering Golf, Josh was the interior of Chicago Bears for NBC Sports Chicago. He previously covered 49ers and Warriors for NBC Sports Bay Area. A native Oregonian and Uo alum, seduces and spends his free time walking with his wife and dog, thinking about how the ducks will break his heart again, and trying to become half a professor into pieces. A true romantic for golf, Josh will never stop trying to break the 90 and will never lose confidence that Rory Mcilroy’s main drought will end. Josh can be reached in josh.schrock@golf.com.
