Wyndham Clark is looking to continue his good recent form in familiar surroundings at this week’s BMW Championship in Denver.
Castle Pines Golf Club is a home-from-home for the 2023 US Open champion after Clark was brought up just 12 miles north of this week’s PGA Tour venue.
The American is currently seventh in the FedEx Cup standings and six back of the lead at the BMW Championship after carding a level-par opening round.
Clark’s first 18 wasn’t without drama, however.
Wyndham Clark feels the full force of Castle Pines Golf Club
Clark started his round positively, picking up two shots on the front nine to head out in 34.
However, drama followed on the back after Clark made two double bogeys. Furthermore, the 30-year-old dropped shots on the two par fives.
Speaking after his round, Clark admitted the rough at the back of the par-five 17th was absolutely “brutal”.
“Yeah, it’s brutal,” Clark told the media. “I saw Hideki get it up-and-down. He was only a couple yards through, and that was way more doable. I was like five or six yards into it, and it was so thick, and my ball was sitting not all the way down.”
“It was sitting pretty high. I had to hit a high soft shot, and I kind of went under it. It’s really tough.”
Wyndham Clark enjoying strong end to the PGA Tour season
After what was, quite frankly, a woeful major championship season for Clark, things have certainly picked up in recent weeks.
Clark lauded his performance at the Olympics, and it’s fair to say that his recent form book makes for pretty good reading.
Moving his dismal Open Championship performance to one side, Clark hasn’t finished outside the top 15 since the US Open at Pinehurst.
In his three latest PGA Tour events, Clark has finished in the top ten. Perhaps, some of the criticism directed at the American was perhaps ill-thought-out.
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