Wyndham Clark Closes With A 60 In Dallas As Blades Brown Punches His Ticket

By Vinnie the Gooch·2 min read
Wyndham Clark Closes With A 60 In Dallas As Blades Brown Punches His Ticket

Wyndham Clark went absolutely nuclear on Sunday at the CJ Cup Byron Nelson, firing a final-round 60 to steal the trophy. Meanwhile a 19-year-old kid named Blades Brown quietly locked up his PGA Tour future.

Clark's Sunday in Dallas was the kind of round that makes you put down whatever you're doing and just watch. He started the day chasing, then casually rolled in a 45-foot bomb that probably shouldn't have gone in from that distance, then kept stacking birdies like it was a video game with the difficulty turned off. By the time he stood on 18, the tournament was already over — he was just stamping it.

The 45-footer that flipped the whole back nine.

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The dagger on 18 was almost unfair. After the kind of round where every putt looks like it has eyes, Clark walked up to the last hole with a 2-shot lead and stuck a dart that took any remaining drama out of it. A 60 on a Sunday to win a PGA Tour event is the kind of thing you tell your grandkids about, and Scottie Scheffler — who had been right there, tied for the lead at one point on Saturday — couldn't keep up with whatever Clark had cooking.

The final scorecard on a round that basically can't be topped.

Fore Play: WYNDHAM CLARK COULD NOT MISS TODAY.

HE FIRES A SUNDAY 60(!!!) TO WIN THE CJ CUP BYRON NELSON. 

WHAT A FINAL ROUND. htt
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While Clark was busy doing that, Blades Brown was writing his own story a few groups back. The 19-year-old needed a solo 21st or better to earn Special Temporary Membership on the PGA Tour, and he absolutely crushed the assignment — finishing at 18-under and locking up the rest of his year. That's a teenager essentially graduating from the developmental circuit in real time, and it's going to be very fun to watch what he does with the runway.

Blades Brown punching his ticket at 19 years old.

Fore Play: BLADES BROWN‼️

The 19-year-old is PGA Tour bound after earning a Special Temporary Membership with his 18-under perform
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And shoutout Jackson Suber, the Ole Miss Rebel who shot a 63 on Sunday to finish 4th. Not the headline, but a hell of a week for a guy plenty of degenerates had a flier on heading into the weekend. Clark gets the trophy, Brown gets the membership, and the kid from Oxford walks away with a top-5 and a check. Pretty good Sunday for golf.

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