Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas<\/a>, an unofficial PGA Tour event, he finds himself tied for the lead at 10 under. However, he created yet another headline by being brutally honest when asked about the course, Albany Golf Course.\u00a0<\/p>\nSign Up Now. SI Golf Newsletters. Sports Illustrated\u2019s Free Golf Newsletters. dark<\/p>\n
\u201cDo you want the politically correct answer? It\u2019s not in good shape,\u201d he said.\u00a0 \u201cYou\u2019re always chipping into the grain and there\u2019s a lot of chips that are up and over, so you have to chip up, and you\u2019re coming from really bad lies in Bermuda and you have to hit it up and there\u2019s just very little margin for error.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Ernie Els-designed layout is a par 72 that stretches 7,449 yards. It has hosted the Hero World Challenge 10 times, and is relatively benign, with all but three holes last year yielding a scoring average under par. <\/p>\n
Clark\u2019s criticism, though, seems to be valid, as others share his sentiment, including the world No. 1, although his explanation was a little more reserved.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean, I think the grain has a lot to do with it,\u201d said Scottie Scheffler, who won the Hero in 2023 and \u201824, and is one stroke off the lead this year. \u201cThe ball has a tendency to sit down in the turf. And a lot of it\u2019s rough here, so you\u2019re below the green, ball\u2019s sitting down. It can be pretty challenging.\u201d<\/p>\n
For good measure, Corey Conners, who\u2019s three strokes off the five-way tie for the lead, agrees.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, it\u2019s really grainy, the ball just kind of sits down a little bit,\u201d Connors said. \u201cThe ground\u2019s not very forgiving and you\u2019ve got to get some height on the shots. The greens are all raised up a little bit, so kind of hitting from low areas, softer, tighter, really grainy lie. It\u2019s pretty important to make sure you have good contact.\u201d<\/p>\n
But despite their grievances, that didn\u2019t stop them from flying to the tropics in an attempt to claim the $1 million winner\u2019s check. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s been a tumultuous year for Wyndham Clark.\u00a0 Two years after winning the U.S. Open, the 31-year-old had…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-334764","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}