Wyndham Clark’s meteoric turnaround has 1 main club behind it

August 24, 2026

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Wyndham Clark’s meteoric turnaround has 1 main club behind it

After his latest victory — his third in the last four months — Wyndham Clark is now firmly in the race for the PGA Tour Player of the Year award, and it all goes back to his putting.

Clark can easily attribute his rapid career turnaround in the second half of this season to his switch to Ping’s Scottsdale TEC Ally Blue Onset CB putter.

At the Valspar Championship in March, Wyndham Clark was lost on the putting greens. He was 147th in SG: Putting on the PGA Tour and ranked 85th in the FedEx Cup after a missed cut.

That week, he used a putter that he had literally purchased from his home club’s pro shop and lost more than half-a-shot per round on the greens.

But at the following event in Houston, Clark first found Ping’s then-unreleased Scottsdale TEC Ally Blue Onset putter. The Scottsdale TEC features a soft, but responsive PEBAX insert that’s proven very popular among pros. Tony Finau has used one since February while Harris English recently switched to a Scottsdale TEC putter in Memphis.

The putter also has a unique white top with Ping’s EyeQ alignment technology, which is aimed at keeping the eye still, which Ping’s research leads to better strokes.

Lastly, the Ally Blue Onset model Clark picked up utilizes a shaft axis that is in front of the center of gravity of the putter, which Ping says leads to a more stable and consistent stroke.

Clark used the standard-length putter for two events before switching to the 38-inch counterbalanced version with a 17g tip weight and 13g of lead tape on the sole. The idea was to make the putter more like his Jailbird, which he used during his first three PGA Tour titles and the 2023 U.S. Open.

Since then, Clark has won three events, including this week and his second U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills. He’s also catapulted from one of the worst putters on the Tour to now one of the best. He led the field in the category at the CJ Cup Byron Nelson, where he shot 30 under and won, and at the Travelers Championship the week after the U.S. Open. He’s now up to 16th on the PGA Tour in SG: Putting.

Clark also made history, signing a putter-only endorsement contract with Ping just before his U.S. Open victory. He became the first player in Ping’s 50-plus years of sponsoring Tour players to sign a putter-only contract.