The squad named The Bay Club and representing the San Francisco Bay Area will feature reigning US Open champion Wyndham Clark, PGA Tour rookie and world No.6 Ludvig Aberg, 2019 Open Championship winner Shane Lowry and Australia’s Min Woo Lee.
For a second straight year, Justin Thomas painfully missed the cut at the Masters – and proceeded to help a handful of his peers grab weekend tee times at Augusta National when they thought they were heading home early.
If he can finish the job at the Players on the weekend, it will further cement the narrative of Clark rising for the big events heading into major season.
Clark’s 60 eclipsed the professional competition course record at Pebble Beach by two shots and the overall competitive record of 61, set by current DP World Tour player Hurley Long in the 2017 collegiate Carmel Cup.
The Ryder Cup is one of the rare times golf – a sport that pulls for all of its competitors – turns provincial. Wyndham Clark is well aware of this dynamic, which is why he expertly quelled an attempt to turn his recents comments into a controversy.
The high majority of golfers pay little attention to the bounce or grind of their wedges, in part because they simply lack the knowledge of what these two things are, how they are different and why they are a vital aspect of the wedge-selection process.
Koepka, a three-time Ryder Cup participant, has only had opportunities to accrue points this year at the major championships as he plays on the LIV Golf League.
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