Once Wyndham Clark caught up to the lead Sunday, he didn’t stop.
Clark shot an 11-under-par 60 to tie a course record in the final round and win the CJ Cup Byron Nelson by three strokes in McKinney, Texas.
“Any time you win and any time you do it in the fashion I did is very special,” Clark said.
Clark finished at 30-under 254 for four rounds at TPC Craig Ranch, one shy of the tournament record set last year by World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler.
South Korea’s Si Woo Kim, who was the second- and third-round leader, was the runner-up and Scheffler was third at 25 under. They both shot 65s on Sunday.
Clark notched his fourth PGA Tour victory and his first since the 2024 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.
“After the first round, I felt really good on the greens, and I said, ‘OK, this could be a really fun, special week,’” Clark said.
Clark’s bogey-free round included an eagle with a 15 1/2-foot putt on the par-5 12th hole. He had birdies on four of the final five holes.
“I just knew I had to keep birdieing because I knew Si Woo was probably going to do the same thing, or even Scottie,” Clark said.
Clark finished in the second-to-last group ahead of Kim and Scheffler. By the time they hit their final tee shots, Clark was sinking a clinching birdie putt.
Clark birdied four of the first six holes to pull even with Kim at 23 under. He matched Kim again at 24 under by birdieing the par-4 11th before passing him for good with his eagle at the next hole.
Scheffler, the tournament’s hometown favorite, didn’t make a sustained push a year after tying the PGA Tour’s 72-hole scoring record of 253 a year ago.
“I’m proud of this week for myself, but I wish I could have gotten a few more shots out of it,” Scheffler said. “Overall, Wyndham played great golf.”
Scheffler went 3 under on each nine.
“A golf course like this, you’ve got to make a ton of birdies,” Scheffler said. “You’ve got to either hit it pretty amazing and hole a few putts or hit it good and hole a bunch of putts. I hit it decent to good and I holed a few putts. I didn’t hole a bunch of putts or hit it incredible.”
Kim, aiming for his fifth victory on the PGA Tour and his first since the 2023 Sony Open, had seven birdies and one bogey Sunday. He carded pars on the last four holes.
“I think it’s a lot of experience in contention this year,” Kim said. “So everything gets comfortable, especially with Scottie on Sunday, last group. That’s really positive. So, yeah, I’m just going to keep trying hard and trying to win.”
Jackson Suber (63) was fourth at 23 under and Keith Mitchell (64) ended up fifth at 22 under. Tony Finau (65), Zach Bauchou (67) and Tom Hoge (68) tied for sixth at 20 under.
“I was just playing golf, and putts were going in,” Suber said. “I was hitting great approach shots. Just felt like everything else I was working on kind of had been working out.”
Blades Brown, 19, shot 67 and finished tied for 14th place at 18 under. That was enough for him to earn a PGA Tour special temporary membership. He has appeared in 16 career events, including seven this year.
“I know my route to the PGA Tour is a very uncommon route,” said Brown, who skipped college to pursue professional golf.
Now, he’ll have to carve out the next stretch of his schedule.
“I think I’m going to play next week in Raleigh on the Korn Ferry Tour,” Brown said. “Then we’ll see what we’re going to do after that.”
–Field Level Media
