After a few months of “dating” different drivers and putters, Wyndham Clark has settled on the ones he likes, and his game is coming around.
And when it comes to his putter, you can see why he finally believes he’s got what all golfers search for with the flatstick: The one.
This week at the Memorial, Clark talked about his journey as a gear-free agent this season and joked that the beginning part of the year, when he was working through drivers and putters furiously, was like dating.
“I’ve made some funny comments of, you know, that it’s like a girlfriend I’ve been dating a lot. Let’s just say that with clubs,” he said.
But now, after winning in his last start in Dallas, he feels like he’s locked down his bag for the most part.
“I love every club in my bag,” he said. “From my 60 degree all the way up to driver and putter, it’s every club that I think is the best for me. So in that sense, I love it. It just took maybe a longer time to get there.”
That includes this heavily lead-taped Ping Scottsdale TEC Ally Blue Onset CB putter that he added at the RBC Heritage. Clark originally gamed a standard-length Scottsdale TEC Ally Blue Onset in Houston and has been in the head shape since.
Where he really started to find his stroke on the greens was in Hilton Head when he went to the 38″ build.
While doing his putting drills, Clark initially felt he had a tendency to miss left. The amount of toe hang (5 degrees) on the Ally Blue Onset helped counteract that. He loved a softer feeling putter, so the soft PEBAX insert in the Scottsdale TEC was a great fit.
Ping’s Onset models are unique in the equipment world because they’re not considered “zero-torque.” While the shaft is placed behind the face, it’s not oriented through the center of gravity of the putter. Instead, the shaft is in front of the CG, allowing the golfer to “pull” the CG for increased stability, similar to a car towing a trailer instead of pushing it.
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Since switching to the CB build, Clark has gone from 155th in putting, losing more than 0.7 shots per round on the greens, to 80th, where he is now gaining strokes on the season. That includes his win at the Byron Nelson, where he led the field with 3.143 Strokes Gained: Putting per round.
It’s not just a certain distance on the green that Clark is excelling in, either. His percentage of putts made outside of 20 feet has gone from 8.26% (52nd on Tour) to 9.5% (18th) since moving to the Ally Blue Onset shape in March. And his make percentage from inside five feet has gone from 96.4% (118th) to 97.02% (T85).
