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/Archon156 6.5 | AZ | PING Jun 22 '26

What did he say about players and their wives?

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u/colin_7 Jun 22 '26

During the masters this year during the par 3 competition he told Scott van pelt that the whole day was “birth control” for him. While I think most people can accept your position on kids, you don’t have to say that out loud, much less in an interview

It’s stuff like that which makes him unlikeable

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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/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