There will no golf on Monday at Pebble Beach.
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The 2024 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am is already over.
Despite initially suspending the final spherical of the $20 million Signature Event to Monday resulting from inclement climate, the PGA Tour made an about-face late Sunday evening and mentioned “out of an abundance of caution for the safety of all constituents” play could be canceled Monday. The event outcomes via 54 holes are actually final.
The Pebble Beach space is beneath Shelter in Place order by Monterey County till early Monday and after consulting with county emergency authorities, the PGA Tour introduced the cancelation of the final spherical in a press release Sunday evening.
You can learn the PGA Tour’s assertion in full beneath:
“The storm affecting the Monterey Peninsula throughout the day Sunday is forecast to continue into the early hours of Monday with very strong winds. Although conditions are forecast to improve through the morning Monday, after consultation with Monterey County emergency authorities, who have implemented a Shelter in Place order until early tomorrow morning for the greater Pebble Beach community, and out of an abundance of caution for the safety of all constituents, there will be no play on Monday. Therefore, in accordance with the PGA TOUR Regulations the tournament results will be final through the conclusion of 54 holes.”
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Shortening the event to 54 holes means Wyndham Clark, who began the third spherical six again of the lead and fired a 60 Saturday to leap into the lead by one over Ludvig Aberg, picks up his third PGA Tour title.
The event had been affected by poor climate all week. The grounds had been closed to the general public for Wednesday’s follow spherical and your complete event was performed beneath most popular lies after heavy rains saturated the course.
More rain got here Saturday evening and into Sunday, however the actual injury from the storm got here from sturdy winds, some reported gusts over 60 mph, that battered California’s central coast all day. Golf Channel’s Todd Lewis reported Sunday afternoon that there was “extensive damage” to the golf course from falling timber, digicam towers and hospitality tents.
The predominant street out and in of Pebble Beach, 17 Mile Drive, was nonetheless closed resulting from excessive winds Sunday evening.
It’s the primary 54-hole occasion on the PGA Tour because the 2016 Zurich Classic of New Orleans. The Pebble occasion was shortened six instances since 1974 earlier than this week, the final coming in 2009 when Dustin Johnson received.
Knowing the forecast, many gamers mentioned they needed to play the third spherical with the concept it may doubtlessly be the final spherical.
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“I definitely thought about it last night and this morning with everyone saying how bad the weather’s going to be,” Clark mentioned Saturday evening. “All right, well, you’ve got to have that mentality that today’s the last day so try to go for broke.”
He went out in 28, tying the course entrance 9 file after which completed with a 60, breaking the course file by a shot.
Last yr’s U.S. Open winner had an eagle putt for 59 on the 18th inexperienced, but it surely stopped simply 7 inches wanting the cup. He advised CBS afterward that he didn’t wish to danger three-putting, understanding he was in rivalry.
“To shoot 59 would have been amazing, but I also know the tournament is on the line, so I wanted to make sure I had good speed,” Clark mentioned. “But to have a tap-in birdie was pretty special too.”
When Aberg missed his eagle strive about an hour and a half later, that gave Clark the one-shot lead that ultimately could be the distinction.
Editor’s be aware: Interested in a key to Clark’s victory? Click right here for this story from GOLF’s Nick Piastowski. Or scroll beneath.
Six days in the past, Wyndham Clark’s head wasn’t on 60, the quantity he shot Saturday, a file at one of many nation’s most celebrated tracks, Pebble Beach. Nor was it on a lead, the place he held via three rounds on the Pebble Beach Pro-Am, an occasion now deemed to be “signature” by the PGA Tour. His ideas had been removed from the almost 200 ft value of putts he dropped.
Nah, final Sunday, on a Pebble follow inexperienced, with some man he simply met, Clark was simply observing 9 putters. Wondering.
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He’d damaged via final yr. A victory on the Wells Fargo. A month later, he received the U.S. Open. There, he sliced and diced L.A. Country Club. But then he dipped. He mentioned his workforce anticipated a letdown. You begin to suppose, although.
Would the droop keep? Would he bounce again?
Why weren’t these freaking putts dropping?
Irritating. An actual golf tee in his saddle. He flew in early for this week’s occasion, although. His workforce hooked him up with a brand new placing guru. The thought was a check-in. A phrase or two. They labored for 3 or so hours. Ideas had been tossed out. Why not change up the placing type? Go cross-handed? He’d given {that a} go in December, on the Hero World Challenge. He went with it once more.
Why not strive that no-line putter? It was sitting among the many aforementioned 9. They had been positioned kinda like a putter model of the Bachelor/Bachelorette reveals.
Clark requested it out.
Ooh, that’s totally different, he thought. Nothing revolutionary, after all. But the ball was rolling. Things clicked. Odyssey’s no-line Ai-One Jailbird was within the bag.
“A lot of big changes,” Clark mentioned, “however while you had been as — while you’re in a spot the place I used to be mentally in placing, you type of wanted a change, simply one thing completely totally different so that you couldn’t complain or have those self same feels that I had in earlier tournaments.
“So yeah, a lot changed, but I think not having the line on the putter’s been the biggest thing for me.”
And that was that. At least that was the plan. No extra placing speak. It was an concept from his sports activities psychologist, Julie Elion. She’s been key on his run.
“Yeah, the brunt of our work has been on the putting recently,” Clark mentioned. “We’ve been so centered on it, and he or she type of advised me — she advised me this week, she mentioned let’s cease having targets for placing and let’s simply transfer on. We’re placing an excessive amount of emphasis on the placing. We had been attempting to have the very best perspective we may probably have, particularly coming into greens like this the place they’re actually bumpy, so slopey and it makes it actually arduous to make putts.
“So I was really just trying to focus on making the best stroke I can and regardless of where the ball goes, even though everyone tries to do that, it’s been really hard for me lately. And I’ve done a good job this week of that and I think my patience the first two days on the greens really paid off because obviously I made a lot of putts today.”
Yeah, yeah he did.
Notably, he began slowly. An even-par 72 in the course of the first spherical at Spyglass Hill. A five-under 67 in the course of the second spherical at Pebble, however he had bogeyed two of his final 5 holes. A par on the first gap at Pebble on Saturday. And then?
The gap appeared as massive because the close by Pacific. The placing was swish because the birds hovering overhead.
A 38-foot, 11-incher on the par-5 2nd. That was for eagle. A 9-foot, 7-incher on the par-4 4th. That was for birdie. A 42-foot, 2-incher on the par-5 sixth. That was additionally for eagle. A 2-foot, 9-incher on the long-lasting par-3 seventh. That was for birdie. A 29-foot, 5-incher on the par-4 8th. That was for birdie. A 24-foot, 7-incher on the par-4 9th. That was for birdie. That equaled 150 ft, 10 inches of putts made — over simply the entrance 9. Stats guru Justin Ray reported that Clark’s complete was essentially the most by a professional on the entrance 9 on the occasion over the previous 20 years — by 24 ft, 7 inches. Clark had additionally fired a front-nine 28, which Ray noted tied the event’s front-nine file, recorded three different instances (Spike McRoy, in the course of the first spherical in 2001; Davis Love IIII in the course of the fourth spherical in 2001; and Brent Schwarzrock, in the course of the first spherical in 2002.)
But you noticed the rating within the first paragraph. There was extra. Clark dropped a 3-foot, 8-incher on the par-4 10th. He dropped a 15-foot, 6-incher on the par-4 11th. His putt on the par-3 12th was maybe his greatest, although. From the tee, he hit right into a greenside bunker. He struggled together with his second shot. It completed simply above one other bunker. The righty opted to hit it lefty. His ball completed on the perimeter, 25 ft, 8 inches away.
He made that. A bogey. But he didn’t spiral.
He adopted with birdie putts on the par-4 13th (12 ft, 8 inches) and the par-5 14th (4 ft). Putts on the par-4 16th (5 inches) and the par-3 17th (5 inches) got here up agonizingly quick. So did his bid on the par-5 18th, for the magical 59. Only 12 gamers in PGA Tour historical past have gone sub-60. Clark missed his penultimate putt by 7 inches. But he made his sixtieth stroke. No one at Pebble has gone that low. The course event file is a 62, set 4 instances (Tom Kite in 1983; David Duval in 1997; Patrick Cantlay in 2021; and Matthias Schwab in 2022). Hurly Long shot a 61 throughout a school occasion in 2017. Notably, there’ll be an asterisk on Clark’s rating, as raise, clear and place was in play, however that’s to not say dude didn’t hit photographs, although. He rolled the rock, too. In the top, he made 189 ft, 9 inches of putts.
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And now he could be your winner. A storm is forecast for Sunday. More rain is predicted within the days forward. There’s an opportunity they’ll name this after 54 holes.
Nah, six days in the past, he wasn’t pondering of any of that, both.
“Even though sometimes I didn’t know where I was going with the putting, I had to believe that it was eventually going to come back,” Clark mentioned. “It’s truthfully greater than something it’s simply actually rewarding to lastly make some putts, see some putts.
“I feel like I rewarded myself with being patient and then having a great day today.”
