Wyndham Clark is predicting big things for Team USA at the 2025 Ryder Cup in New York this time next year.
Clark is proud of his 2024 season, with the American winning once and twice finishing as runner-up on the PGA Tour.
He emerged victorious at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, with Clark coming second and T2 at the Arnold Palmer Invitational and The Players Championship respectively.
The 30-year-old, who sits sixth in the world rankings, also helped the US Team win the Presidents Cup last month.
Clark was on the winning side in Montreal, having been on the losing side for Team USA at the 2023 Ryder Cup.
Wyndham Clark makes Team USA claim ahead of the 2025 Ryder Cup
He is now looking ahead to the next edition of the team tournament, which takes place at Bethpage Black next September.
Clark has now shared his plans for New York following the US Team’s Presidents Cup success, saying on the No Laying Up Podcast: “I mean, our team this year I felt like was really prepared, we all either went and played a tournament or stayed tournament sharp, and so I’m really looking forward to the Ryder Cup in New York, hoping I make the team, because I feel like we have a great nucleus right now of guys that are really close and are friends, but also obviously very good, and I feel like if we could try to keep this this core for a few years, I think we could really go on a nice run.”
Wyndham Clark shares how Ryder Cup prepared him for Presidents Cup
Clark should be getting used to playing at team events, with plenty more appearances set to arrive in the near future.
He is among a number of American stars currently flying high, although they did, of course, fall some way short in Rome last time out.
Clark has already spoken to Keegan Bradley about the 2025 Ryder Cup, with the latter set to captain the home side.
Every team tournament is, of course, very different, but the former is hoping he can learn from his previous appearances and clinch a playing spot next time out.
“You really don’t know what you don’t know as a rookie, so going in there obviously you have certain expectations, and you think it’s going to be this way, and then it’s totally different, so I learned that our time is not our time when we’re there,” he said.
“When you show up, we have so many things that we have to do, from media stuff, pictures, galas, meet and greets, whatever it might be. And so in there they sprinkle in some golf time. So if you don’t show up prepared, you’re not going to have time to get prepared.
“And I felt like I had my best year ever last year, the playoffs were so hot, temperature wise it just felt like such a grind, and so when I finished at East Lake last year, I don’t even want to be around golf, so I didn’t touch a club for two weeks and I honestly showed up to Rome not prepared, and that’s my fault.
“But I was just so exhausted, and I felt like a lot of us did, we all took time off, and we were like ‘we just need to step away from the game’. And I think we all expected that we could just show up and be what we were just four weeks ago. And even though some of us are the best in the game, you still have to be tournament sharp and mentally tournament sharp, and I just don’t think we were.
“So this year I wanted to make sure I was prepared, and even though I didn’t necessarily have the best record this year of wins and points, I played amazing golf for the first three matches, we just ran into a buzzsaw.”
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