{"id":649265,"date":"2026-05-17T22:19:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T22:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/649265\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T22:19:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T22:19:32","slug":"pga-championship-wyndham-clark-nearly-takes-someones-head-off-and-it-wasnt-his-fault-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/649265\/","title":{"rendered":"PGA Championship: Wyndham Clark nearly takes someone&#8217;s head off &#8230; and it wasn&#8217;t his fault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:Yahoo Sports;\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><img alt=\"Yahoo Sports\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"188\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/lo\/mysterio\/api\/06E64B88ABF6D566607586D73154FAD3E5AF622F7362A58D0F63DB7A9E205591\/subgraphmysterio\/resizefill_w188_h40;quality_80;format_webp\/https:%2F%2Fs.yimg.com%2Fos%2Fcreatr-uploaded-images%2F2021-06%2Fa6ae9d30-d9ed-11eb-97f6-17d4afb119eb\"\/><\/a>Sat, May 16, 2026 at 1:21 PM UTC<\/p>\n<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>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":"Sat, May 16, 2026 at 1:21 PM UTC It\u2019s a wonder this doesn\u2019t happen more often, even with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[279149,427,14192,99,14190],"class_list":["post-649265","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\/649265","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=649265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}