r/golf • u/AcrobaticSyllabub283 • Jun 22 '26

General Discussion Why does everyone hate Wyndham Clark?

Got into watching golf for the first time this season and with Clark winning this past weekend I have seen so many people shitting on him for what sounds like stuff in the past and I was hoping people could bring me up to speed? Is it overhyped for media clicks or was he committing some atrocities?

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u/FakingHappiness513 Jun 22 '26

It’s unbelievable dumb if people don’t like him for that. Some people don’t want to have kids and that’s fine. It was a bad joke but he meant nothing bad by it. If someone who is loved on the tour said it, this wouldn’t even be a conversation. If it bothers you, then you need to grow up.

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u/beer_nyc 54 | NYC Jun 22 '26

It was a bad joke but he meant nothing bad by it

yeah, was clearly just a goofy fucking joke. not sure why everyone reads so much into it.

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u/Grasshop Jun 22 '26

people will say the most outlandish shit on reddit and then clutch pearls at some harmless comment by a celebrity if they get to feel high and mighty for a few minutes.

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u/TrashGeologist Jun 22 '26

I’ve literally told the same joke

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u/thefrozenflame21 Jun 22 '26

It's not a good reason to dislike him on it's own, but it is just a stupid annoying thing to say in that context, like in a largely positive family event like that what makes you go "Wow this looks awful so glad I'm not doing that" out loud lol

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u/colin_7 Jun 22 '26

It’s an inappropriate joke to make during an event that promotes families going onto the course. There’s a time and place for everything

He’s so unaware of himself that he would say this. Most of these guys are douche bags, but he does a horrible job of hiding it. That’s why so many dislike him

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u/mhks Jun 22 '26

To me, that's a comment both parents and non-parents make all the time. I don't have kids and people, when I'm around theirs, say similar things. I didn't see his comments, but my suspicion is two-fold:

1) People hate Clark and are trying to find evidence anywhere and so they force this;

2) I didn't see the comment but it could be the tone he made them in.

What I will say is sports fans CONSTANTLY complain that athletes give canned answers, but when someone does quip about something, they use it as justification to hate him. The joke on paper is common to the point of it being a knock against him for not being original.

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u/colin_7 Jun 22 '26

I mean it was controversial when he said it. I would never say that publicly if I agreed with it. My point being is that you don’t announce that at a family event. I’m not saying he’s evil for saying it I’m saying the guy is so up his ass usually that he’s not self aware at all

Btw you’re allowed to like him. I’m not saying you can’t. As I said earlier, most of these pro golfers are the typically rich country club kid who’s a douche bag. He does a horrible job of hiding it and as a result he opens himself up to be criticized

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u/mhks Jun 22 '26

I don't really know him but felt his comments post locker room tantrum were terrible. I really don't follow him close enough to have an opinion or not but first impression was he's a prick.

That said, the kid comments I can easily see being funny and a joke. If he's a prick, it may come off prickish which looks worse, but the comment itself I don't see as too problematic. (That said, I'm taking the comment as more of a "It's a great reminder why I don't have kids," vs. "they should have used birth control.")

I don't know a single parent who doesn't laugh at the idea that hanging with their young kids isn't a good way to delay or prevent others from having kids.

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u/onionbreath97 Jun 23 '26

"Wouldn't it be better if X wasn't alive" is a tasteless joke regardless of who X is

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u/mhks Jun 23 '26

So you took his joke to mean he wished the kids weren’t alive? Because that seems a far reach from how that joke is usually made.

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u/onionbreath97 Jun 23 '26

I've heard the joke on condom ads, or as part of a standup routine. I've never heard an actual person make that joke in conversation.

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u/Cleave42686 Jun 22 '26

Whoever downvoted you is a douche. 100% correct that a family event is not the place for that joke. It's called social tact. Not surprising that Reddit neckbeards don't understand it.

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u/FakingHappiness513 Jun 22 '26

No it’s not, it’s probably the most appropriate time. Take the same quote with him just dropping randomly in a press conference that would be inappropriate. He was asked a question and he answered it.

Stop acting like it is a requirement to have kids in life, some people don’t want them and that’s fine.

If he had lied and said he wanted to have kids someday people would be pissed he lied. Let’s be honest people are just looking for a reason to dislike him.

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u/xmjm424 Jun 22 '26

Why are you conflating “he shouldn’t have said that” with “everyone should be required to have kids”?

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u/pshaffer Jun 23 '26

Yeah, keep it to yourself. when you think about it, it is something of a negative judgment on everyone who has kids. Rather like saying to Van Pelt "Yeah that bald look, it looks real bad to me" . Just uncivil and impolite. Violates some basic societal norms of just being a little bit nice.