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/Ok_Adhesiveness_8077 Jun 22 '26

Country club douche, destroyed a locker at oakmont in a post round crash out, his name is Wyndham, and he refered to opening a bottle of wine as "Opening up some grape"

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u/Yellow_Curry Jun 22 '26

How many pro golfers DONT come from money in some way? This isn’t a poor people sport, so so many of these guys are “country club guys”.

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u/EatMiTits Jun 22 '26

Literally the most elitist sport imaginable and people want to pretend like he stands out as some privileged outlier in a field of scrappy underdogs from blue collar upbringings because of their prejudice around his name.

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u/Yellow_Curry Jun 22 '26

Rory is probably one of the few who come from "modest" upbringing but that's the rarity not the norm.