Wyndham Clark WDs from 2025 Players Championship
Wyndham Clark withdrew from the 2025 Players Championship after only playing nine holes of his second round at the flagship event on the PGA Tour.
Wyndham Clark was forced to withdraw from the 2025 Players Championship with a neck injury.
Clark had only played nine holes of his second round at the PGA Tour's flagship event at TPC Sawgrass when he decided to walk off the course.
He was sitting on a score of 4-over par, having played the front nine in 40.
Clark made a double bogey at the par-5 second and also dropped strokes at the third and fifth holes.
The projected cut was level par.
Golf Channel were the first to report Clark's withdrawal, showing images of the 2023 U.S. Open champion shaking hands with his playing partners Danny Walker and Jordan Spieth.
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The official PGA Tour communications team confirmed his withdrawal was owing to a neck injury.
He is the second high-profile to withdraw from the unofficial fifth men's major championship this week.
Before the tournament began, former World No.1 Jason Day was forced to pull out because of illness.
Day was supposed to be playing in Clark and Spieth's group but was replaced by Walker.
The Australian's replacement later told reporters that upon hearing the news that he was in the field he went and sat alone in his car.
Then he wept, he said.
"Some of it was just a little bit of shock, because I wasn't really expecting to get in," he said.
"Like I made sure I was prepared to, but I wasn't really expecting it either. Then to have to go play with two major champions as well, that was like, oh, like we're here.
"It meant the world to me. I wanted to play in this event since I was a little kid, especially living here locally.
"[I] watched it a bunch of times the last few years, so yeah, I couldn't have been more excited.
"Like, honestly, I went and sat in my car for a few minutes afterwards and just kind of let it hit me a little bit, maybe let a tear out. But, no, it was all great. I was just excited."
Akshay Bhatia and Min Woo Lee were tied for the lead after 36 holes played at the Stadium Course.
JJ Spaun, Rory McIlroy, Collin Morikawa and Tommy Fleetwood are all in contention.
Morikawa fired a 7-under 64, but used his post-round news conference to open a war of words with Golf Channel's Paul McGinley and Brandel Chamblee.
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