Full leaderboard<\/a><\/p>\nWyndham Clark said he is “one of the best players in the world” after he survived a fightback from Rory McIlroy to win the BMW Championship in Missouri.<\/p>\n
Clark held a five-shot lead going into the final day, but saw his advantage evaporate as McIlroy drew level with seven holes left to play.<\/p>\n
But Northern Irishman McIlroy could not take several opportunities to move ahead, and successive Clark birdies enabled the American to post a fourth-round 71 and finish the week 17 under par.<\/p>\n
After pushing Clark all the way, McIlroy ended the day one under par to finish 13 under, four shots behind the winner.<\/p>\n
“It was weird – I wasn’t nervous but I was kind of out of it, making double bogies, I can’t believe I didn’t make anything on the greens. But I kept trying to get myself going,” Clark told CBS Sports.<\/p>\n
“I really started to swing free down the end. I was proud I didn’t let it get away and was mentally strong.<\/p>\n
“I’m one of the best players in the world. Everyone gives me a hard time and roots for other people, but I’ve come into my own. It’s my best season yet coming off my worst year.”<\/p>\n
After losing his first-day lead with a second-round 69, McIlroy said he needed a “heroic effort” to catch Clark on the final day.<\/p>\n
The back-to-back Masters champion fought hard to gain two shots as Clark dropped three, but missed a put on the 14th with the scores tied – and from there Clark recovered.<\/p>\n
“I can’t be too disappointed, I’m not playing well enough to be too disappointed to no win,” McIlroy told CBS Sports.<\/p>\n
“I had my chances, but Wyndham stepped up. The way he played the last three holes, he showed a lot of character.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BMW Championship – final leaderboard -16 W Clark (US); -14 P Cantlay (US); -13 R McIlroy (NI); -12…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-602596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}