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Wyndham Clark shoots 60 to win CJ Cup Byron Nelson

Clark’s bogey-free 60 tied the course record, won by three, and suggested one hot week could become a season reset.

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Wyndham Clark shoots 60 to win CJ Cup Byron Nelson
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Wyndham Clark turned the CJ Cup Byron Nelson into a closing statement, firing an 11-under-par 60 at TPC Craig Ranch to win by three strokes and leave Si Woo Kim and Scottie Scheffler chasing from behind. The final round was bogey-free, and Clark sealed it with four birdies in five holes, including a birdie on 18 after an approach shot inside 3 feet.

Clark finished at 30-under 254, following rounds of 66, 63 and 65, and collected 500 FedExCup points along with $1.854 million from the record $10.3 million purse. The score tied the course record and underscored how complete the performance was at the par-71, 7,385-yard layout in McKinney, Texas, just north of Dallas.

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The victory also carried a sharper kind of significance for Clark, who entered the week as a major champion trying to reassert himself. PGA Tour coverage said he became the first player to win twice with a closing 60, a striking marker for a player whose previous closing 60 came in the weather-shortened 2024 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. That kind of number does more than fill a line on a leaderboard. It can reset a season, revive confidence and remind the rest of the tour that Clark still has the firepower to separate when the putter cooperates.

That was especially clear on a Sunday in which the leaderboard stayed crowded for much of the day. Si Woo Kim had led after the second and third rounds and finished second at 27-under, while Scheffler took third at 25-under. Clark did not simply wait for others to fade. He authored the round himself, staying in control as the scoring around him stayed hot and turning a packed chase into a runaway by the final stretch.

For Clark, the win was his fourth PGA Tour title and a meaningful marker heading into the next run of events on the schedule. For the Byron Nelson, it was another reminder of the tournament’s place in golf history. The event began in 1944, was won by Byron Nelson in its inaugural edition and remains one of only two PGA Tour tournaments named after a professional golfer, alongside the Arnold Palmer Invitational. On this stage, Clark’s 60 was more than a low number. It was a clear signal that a former major winner may be re-entering the summer conversation with momentum.

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