Wyndham Clark explains why he snubbed LIV Golf

Shortly after being declared champion of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-am, Wyndham Clark was posed with the LIV Golf question.

Clark was one of the names strongly linked with a move to the Saudi-backed circuit over the winter but has now banked $3.6million as the winner of the PGA Tour’s second signature event of the season.

The US Open champion jumped to the top of the Pebble Beach leaderboard with a 12-under-par round of 60 on Saturday and revelled in his third big win in nine months after hopes of a Monday finish were wiped out by a storm on Monterey Peninsula.

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He then opened up on conversations with LIV bosses and why, for now at least, he has resisted the overtures of Greg Norman’s enterprise.

“Yeah, there’s definitely some truth. I definitely met with LIV and went through those discussions,” Clark admitted.

“I wanted to see what they could bring to the table. I ultimately declined going to LIV because I felt like I still have a lot of things left in the tank on the PGA Tour and I wanted to chase records, I wanted to chase world ranking.

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“My dream is to try to be one of the top players in the world if not the top player. I just grew up always imagining winning PGA Tour events. So I ultimately, I chose my legacy over LIV… that’s really what it came down to.”

For now then, Clark is going nowhere. But the 30-year-old, who is exempt for the US Open for the next ten years and the other three majors for the next five, has certainly not shut the LIV door completely.

“You know, I don’t know what the future holds with my career and what the PGA Tour and LIV is going to do,” he said. “But at least for this season I am 100 percent set on the PGA Tour and I want to try to get to as high in the world as I possibly can.”

Ben Parsons joined bunkered as a Content Producer in 2023 and is the man to come to for all of the latest news, across both the professional and amateur games. Formerly of The Mirror and Press Association, he is a member at Halifax Golf Club and is a long-suffering fan of both Manchester United and the Wales rugby team.