Denver native Wyndham Clark, a product of Valor Christian HighSchool and Cherry Hills Country Club, has long been a formidable player on the PGA Tour. But he stepped up his game considerably starting in 2023, finishing the year in the top 10 in the Official World Golf Rankings. Winning twice on Tour in 2023, including once in a major, can do that. And he added a third victory early in 2024.
In May of 2023, the-then-29-year-old became the first Colorado-born golfer since Jonathan Kaye in 2003 to record a PGA Tour victory, as he prevailed in the Wells Fargo Championship. It was Clark’s first PGA Tour win, but certainly not the last as he demonstrated six weeks later.
In June of last year, Clark fended off Rory McIlroy to become the third player in the last half-century to have grown up in Colorado and won the U.S. Open, as he joined three-time champ Hale Irwin and Steve Jones in that elite club.
He also became the first golfer since Irwin in 1991 to have graduated from a Colorado high school and then competed in the Ryder Cup and, the following year, a Presidents Cup.
In February of 2024, Clark added his third PGA Tour victory in nine months as he closed with a course-record round of 60 at the weather-shortened AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.
Born in Denver on Dec. 9, 1993, Clark was an impressive player in Colorado and beyond as a teenager and young man. He won two Class 4A individual state titles while at Valor, including by shooting rounds of 64-64 at Pelican Lakes in 2011 as a senior. As a 15-year-old, he won the 2009 CGA Junior Stroke Play by 11 shots at Eaton Country Club, advanced to the final 16 at the U.S. Junior Amateur and placed third in the oldest boys division at the prestigious Callaway Junior World Championships in San Diego.
At age 16, Clark became the youngest winner of the CGA Stroke Play since 1971. He also qualified for first of five U.S. Amateurs. After winning the prestigious Byron Nelson International Junior Golf Award in 2012, Clark went to national powerhouse Oklahoma State to play college golf.
He became a rare winner of two conference Player of the Year awards in two different leagues: Big 12 POY at Oklahoma State (2014) and Pac-12 POY in 2017 after transferring to Oregon. In the spring of his senior season, Clark scored all three of his individual college victories. Most notably, he won the Pac- 12 Conference individual title—and led Oregon to the team championship—in 2017 at Boulder Country Club, where he’d won the 2010 CGA Stroke Play.
Clark’s Oregon team advanced to the match-play final of the 2017 NCAA nationals but fell to Oklahoma.
Turning pro in 2018, Clark earned his PGA Tour card that year by finishing in the top 25 on the Web.com’s regular-season money list. Prior to his three wins in nine months, Clark’s best finish on the PGA Tour was a second place in a playoff at the 2020 Bermuda Championship.
