Wyndham Clark doesn’t wish to make the identical mistake once more.
Coming into his Ryder Cup debut final fall, Clark had gone over a month with out competing in a match. Most of his U.S. teammates had comparable September schedules. And when Clark teed off in fourballs that Friday in Rome, he shortly discovered himself apologizing to teammate Max Homa, saying, “Sorry, I’m not match sharp proper now.”
The Individuals, in fact, went on to lose convincingly.
“It was realistically 4 weeks, after which by the point you pegged it as much as play, it was the fifth week, so it’s 5 weeks,” Clark defined. “I imply, I might by no means put together for a giant occasion the place I had 5 weeks off between one match to the following. … I felt like quite a lot of us weren’t ready.”
Quick ahead to this week in Napa, California, the place Clark was set to play the FedExCup Fall’s opener, the Procore Championship. He’s considered one of three U.S. Presidents Cup crew members, together with Sahith Theegala and Max Homa, competing.
“one hundred pc, that’s why I’m right here,” Clark stated of utilizing the Procore as a tune-up for the Presidents Cup, which begins Sept. 26 in Montreal.
On the flip aspect, Mac Hughes, Corey Conners and Min Woo Lee are enjoying Procore whereas Adam Scott, Ben An and Si Woo Kim will play the DPWT’s BMW PGA Championship in England the week previous to the Presidents Cup.
The Tour doesn’t have one other occasion between Procore and the Presidents Cup, however transferring ahead, Clark plans on competing extra within the leadup to Ryder and Presidents cups ought to he make extra groups.
“This 12 months for Presidents Cup it’s much less time, however I didn’t wish to try this once more,” Clark stated. “So, if it’s one thing that I do myself or hopefully Workforce USA type of makes it obligatory that everybody does it, I believe we should always all play earlier than. I do know we’ve got such a grueling schedule and all of us simply performed the Tour Championship, but when we are able to simply do – it’s only one extra week to play and to maintain us sharp in order that we are able to win, I believe it’s price it.”