Wyndham Clark acknowledges the crowd during the third round of the 2024 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. | Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images
Wyndham Clark was on fire from the jump Saturday at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, blowing past the field.
Wyndham Clark had an unbelievable round on Saturday.
He shot a 12-under 60 on Saturday at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, soaring to the top of the leaderboard and setting the course record at Pebble Beach in the process. He now sits at 17-under for the championship after carding the lowest round of his career.
The fireworks started early and often, as Clark holed a 38-footer for eagle at the par-5 second.
That was a harbinger of things to come.
At the 4th, Clark rolled in his first birdie of the day to get to 3-under through four. Two holes later, Clark made another eagle from long distance. He rolled in his eagle putt from 42 feet away.
Then, Clark rattled off five straight birdies, three of which came on one of Pebble Beach’s most challenging stretches. The 8th, 9th, and 10th holes are all playing over par, but Clark made them look easy.
He went out in 8-under 28, tying Pebble Beach’s front nine record. That was mainly due to his hot putter, as Clark made 150 feet of putts on the front nine, per golf statistician Justin Ray.
His back none got off to a rocking start, too. Clark’s second shot from the left rough at 10 was a sight to behold, as he stuck his approach to mere inches.
He was not finished.
Clark went on to birdie 11, but then had an adventurous bogey at the par-3 12th.
After finding the sand trap to the right of the green, Clark hit a poor second shot into the deep rough between the left-side bunker and the green.
He was forced to chip left-handed and skulled his third shot like a 15-handicapper. Alas, Clark saved a bogey from about 25 feet, his only dropped shot of the day.
Then, on the next two holes, Clark bounced back with a vengeance, birdieing the 13th and 14th holes to get back on track.
By then, a sub-60 round was squarely in play.
But it was ultimately not meant to be.
Clark had a great look at birdie on the 16th hole, but his 10-footer for birdie came up just short in the heart of the hole. A similar occurrence happened at the par-3 17th, where one more revolution would have given Clark yet another birdie.
Then, at 18, Clark stripped a 4-iron from 230 yards out into the middle of the green. Had the eagle fallen, Clark would have carded the 13th sub-60 round in PGA Tour history.
And yet, like his putts at both 16 and 17, his eagle try at 18 came up just inches short.
“For the third straight hole, it was on track to drop but came up inches short,” said CBS broadcaster Jim Nantz.
Clark was truly inches short of shooting a historic 57, which would have been the lowest score recorded in PGA Tour history. It also would have been done on a par-72, making it that much more impressive.
Nevertheless, Clark had to settle for a 12-under 60, which any golfer will take in any tournament. And now, the reigning U.S. Open champion has a command of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.
He will take that any day of the week.
Jack Milko is a golf staff writer for SB Nation’s Playing Through. Be sure to check out @_PlayingThrough for more golf coverage. You can follow him on Twitter @jack_milko as well.
