{"id":898223,"date":"2026-10-29T02:14:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T02:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/898223\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T02:14:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T02:14:18","slug":"what-are-you-doing-here-wyndham-clark-arrives-in-mexico-with-brother-on-his-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/898223\/","title":{"rendered":"What are you doing here? Wyndham Clark arrives in Mexico with brother on his bag"},"content":{"rendered":"

What\u2019s driving a two-time U.S. Open winner to play multiple fall events? Why play in Japan and then Mexico during the slow season after such a busy and decorated 2026?<\/a> When does too much travel impact a player\u2019s game?<\/p>\n

The line of questioning Wyndham Clark has been facing can be boiled down to the very simple \u2014 yet seemingly agnostic \u2014 refrain, \u201cWhat are you doing here?\u201d<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a lot at stake for quite a few number of players<\/a> not named Wyndham Clark this week, so it\u2019s seemingly a fair line of thought \u2014 and not one that\u2019s meant to disqualify the Mexico Open as an event for major champions to consider in the future.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone\u2019s asking me why I\u2019m playing so much \u2014 I kind of like it keeps you sharp, doing some club testing. You know, the destinations that I\u2019m playing at are pretty amazing,\u201d the 32-year-old Clark told reporters in Vallarta on Wednesday. \u201cPlayed in Japan, playing here in Mexico and then going to South Africa. They\u2019re all beautiful, amazing destinations. You use it as a work week, but also a little bit of a vacation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Beside keeping the game sharp and traveling, the No. 5-ranked player in the world\u2019s main motivation this week will be the man standing right beside him on every hole.<\/p>\n

Clark\u2019s brother, Brendan, will be carrying his bag this week with Clark\u2019s full-time caddie David Pelekoudas in Italy for a friend\u2019s wedding. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s not the only wedding on deck. Brendan is getting hitched this fall, and big brother would love to contribute. <\/p>\n

\u201cI would love to have a great week for my brother with his wedding coming up so I can give him a nice check to help pay for the wedding and honeymoon,\u201d said Clark, who enters as the pretournament favorite after three wins in 2026<\/a> including his triumph at Shinnecock Hills.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s fun for us \u2014 he lives in Kansas City, I live in Arizona,\u201d Clark added . \u201cWe see each other good amount but not as much as we would like, so this will be a fun, special week.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The opening round of the VidantaWorld Mexico Open is underway at Vidanta Vallarta Golf Course in Vallarta, Mexico.<\/p>\n

So far, the Clark brothers have taken their significant others to a Robbie Williams concert and Cirque du Soleil. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis place, I refer to it almost as Jurassic Park. It\u2019s this amazing hotel, theme park, golf course, resort. It\u2019s fantastic,\u201d Wyndham said at his press conference.<\/p>\n

Clark will play Thursday and Friday with in a featured group with Tom Kim, who he went against in the Presidents Cup at Medinah last month<\/a>. The group also has reigning champion Brian Campbell.<\/p>\n

If the Clarks needs something to chat about with the 33-year-old Campbell and his caddie, then they can always opt for wedding planning if golf talk falls short \u2014 Campbell and his fianc\u00e9 are leaving Mexico for their own wedding next week.<\/a> <\/p>\n

Clark wasn\u2019t in the field when Campbell won for the first-time in his Tour career last February. The tournament has been moved to the fall season this year after being played earlier in the calendar, putting two Tour events south of the border in back to back weeks.<\/p>\n

In 2022, Clark finished T-67 at this tournament. He improved a year later, placing T-24 at 10 under before skipping the 2024 and 2025 versions.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been coming to Mexico for, gosh, 15 years as a family so I really enjoy this culture, the food and have played tons of good golf courses,\u201d he said. \u201cHopefully we continue to come here and even expand the amount of times we come down here.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The PGA Tour action returns to Vidanta Vallarta this week. Here\u2019s how to watch the action Thursday and when some of the field\u2019s marquee names will be going out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What\u2019s driving a two-time U.S. Open winner to play multiple fall events? Why play in Japan and then…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":898224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-898223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898223","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=898223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/898224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}