PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. – Wyndham Clark, whose third victory on the PGA Tour on Sunday on the AT&T Pebble Seashore Professional-Am solidified his standing as one of many circuit’s bonafide stars, confirmed that his stardom attracted the curiosity of LIV Golf.
There had been rumors that the breakaway circuit had approached final 12 months’s U.S. Open champion, and following Clark’s victory on the weather-shortened occasion at Pebble Seashore, Clark mentioned he had talks with LIV Golf.
“I undoubtedly met with LIV and went by means of these discussions. I wished to see what they may deliver to the desk,” Clark mentioned. “I in the end declined going to LIV as a result of I felt like I nonetheless have lots of issues left within the tank on the PGA Tour and I wished to chase information, I wished to chase world rating. My dream is to attempt to be one of many prime gamers on this planet if not the highest participant. I simply grew up all the time imagining profitable PGA Tour occasions.
“So, I in the end, I selected my legacy over LIV, and that’s actually what it got here all the way down to.”
Clark, who moved to sixth on this planet rating along with his victory at Pebble Seashore, mentioned there have been nonetheless issues he wished to perform on the Tour and that Tiger Woods, Adam Scott, Patrick Cantlay and Jordan Spieth – who’re participant administrators on the Tour’s coverage board – in the end satisfied him to stay on the PGA Tour.
“They actually gave me some nice recommendation and a few counsel. I didn’t need them to sway me in a sure approach, however I undoubtedly wished their counsel and I simply wished to honor them and the period of time and work and energy they’ve put into this settlement now with SSG and the place the Tour goes,” Clark mentioned.
The Tour introduced final week it had reached an settlement with Strategic Sports activities Group (SSG), a non-public fairness group led by Fenway Sports activities, to speculate $1.5 billion into PGA Tour Enterprises, a for-profit entity that has created a pathway for gamers to turn out to be fairness homeowners. The cope with SSG additionally permits for the Tour to achieve an settlement with Saudi Arabia’s Public Funding Fund, which owns LIV Golf, to turn out to be an investor in PGA Tour Enterprises.
“I don’t know what the long run holds with my profession and what the PGA Tour and LIV are going to do,” Clark mentioned, “however no less than for this season I’m one hundred pc set on the PGA Tour, and I wish to attempt to get to as excessive on this planet as I presumably can.”
