{"id":647059,"date":"2026-05-16T17:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T17:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/647059\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T17:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T17:07:09","slug":"pga-championship-wyndham-clark-nearly-takes-someones-head-off-and-it-wasnt-his-fault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/647059\/","title":{"rendered":"PGA Championship: Wyndham Clark nearly takes someone&#8217;s head off &#8230; and it wasn&#8217;t his fault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a wonder this doesn\u2019t happen more often, even with the precision of a pro.<\/p>\n<p>During Friday\u2019s Round 2 of the PGA Championship, Wyndham Clark launched a drive into the left rough of what appears to be the 11th hole.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Now, if you\u2019ve ever been to a professional golf tournament, you know when a ball enters a fan area, said fans rarely want to move an inch. Instead, they stand their ground to get as close-up a view as they can of the next shot \u2026 which is how this happened:<\/p>\n<p>The still shot shows just how perilous this could have been:<\/p>\n<p>Nope, not Wyndham Clark\u2019s fault. And, as the great Steve Stone would say, this is a lesson for all you youngsters out there that even professional golfers miss every once in awhile.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully in this case the camera took the impact. Unfortunately for Clark, he\u2019d go on to card a triple-bogey 7 and would ultimately miss the cut by one shot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s a wonder this doesn\u2019t happen more often, even with the precision of a pro. During Friday\u2019s Round&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[279149,427,14192,99,14190],"class_list":["post-647059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-christopher-powers","tag-golf","tag-pga-championship","tag-sports","tag-wyndham-clark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647059","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=647059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}