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Why Wyndham Clark is gaming a putter he bought off the rack

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The life of a PGA Tour golfer comes with its perks. Most notably, the plethora of options it comes to when trying new golf clubs.

Each week, tour trucks travel from event to event, stocked with the latest and greatest gear and technology that every player has right at their fingertips – literally.

But for Wydhman Clark, a quick trip to his local pro shop is all he needs. He’s rocking into the 2026 Players Championship with a shop-bought Bettinardi putter.

“I hadn’t been putting my best, so I wanted to try some different putters, and I kind of narrowed it down to two or three, and I went to go put lead tape on one of them at the pro shop at Whisper Rock,” Clark told GolfWRX at The Players. “As I was kind of waiting there and looking, they had this putter and I said, ‘You know, can I try this?’

“I went out and it beat all the other putters that I was working with, and I said, ‘Alright, we’re going with it.’”

Clark’s journey to the Bettinardi Antidote SB1 putter has been a long one. He had been using a L.A.B. DF3 for the second half of last season, first without the insert before transitioning into one with. Prior to that, he tested a custom Toulon Le Mans, as well as various versions of his traditional Odyssey Jailbird and even a Scotty Cameron Tour T-11.

During a practice round on Monday at The Players, Clark was putting the putter through its paces on the already slick-looking Sawgrass greens. It’s so brand new, it still has the price sticker.

“I just have always liked feeling the center of mass right in the center,” Clark said on the reason he’s been using so many center-shafted putters recently. “Aiming-wise, it feels really good … I’ve just gravitated towards it, I feel a certain way towards it and I picked something that looks good.”

For those wondering, the putter was priced at $399.00, but Clark’s had it long enough to slather the sole in lead tape and equip it with a SuperStroke 2.0 PT grip.

The putter isn’t the only change in Clark’s bag this week at Sawgrass. As a new member of the equipment-free-agency world, the 2023 U.S. Open champion has added TaylorMade’s Qi4D driver. He went through an extensive testing session with TaylorMade Tour rep Adrian Rietveld earlier in the year.

“It’s really nice to be able to basically hand-pick all 14 clubs versus being locked into having to play some, and sometimes there’s a lot of great club companies, but maybe they don’t make 14 great clubs, they might make 10 or 11,” Clark said on the free-agency. “So it’s kind of nice. I have four different brands in my bag, maybe even five, and I feel like I have the best set I could possibly play.

Clark’s new Qi4D core model, at 10.5 degrees cranked a few notches lower, is equipped with Project X’s new Titan 70-gram shaft. Launched toward the end of the 2025 season, the Titan shaft profile features a unique EI profile and new Synex Technology, which reinforces the shaft’s outer layers and increases hoop stiffness in the handle and mid-section, enabling better energy transfer during the transition.

Keep a lookout for Clark this week (he’s had close calls at The Players before). If he plays well, also keep an eye out at your local golf shop for other PGA Tour players.

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  5. The Truth Network

    Mar 10, 2026 at 9:13 am

    More proof that LAB putters are absolute trash.

    • L

      Mar 10, 2026 at 3:09 pm

      To each his own. Some work other don’t. Just like anything in life

  6. Golf chungus

    Mar 10, 2026 at 6:34 am

    Who cares? Dudes been a nonfactor on tour this year. Not sure why they put Clark’s face everywhere either. Don’t like him at all.

  7. Frank

    Mar 9, 2026 at 7:09 pm

    This wont help him win hes a one hit wonder

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From the GolfWRX Classifieds: Titleist Vokey Proto Wedges 54M, 60T

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At GolfWRX, we are a community of like-minded individuals who all experience and express our enjoyment of the game in many ways.

It’s that sense of community that drives day-to-day interactions in the forums on topics that range from best driver to what marker you use to mark your ball. It even allows us to share another thing we all love – buying and selling equipment.

Currently, in our GolfWRX buy/sell/trade (BST) forum, @Putt4Dough is selling some prototype wedges from Vokey Wedgeworks. These include a 54 degree wedge with the M grind and a 60 degree wedge with a T grind.

From the listing:

(1) Titleist Vokey Proto Wedge 54M with a Tour Issue DGS400 shaft and Golf Pride Tour Velvet (logo down). Standard length, lie, and loft. BB&F ferrule. Raw wedge in good condition. No initials. Price is $200 shipped. Buy both wedges for $380 shipped.

(2) Titleist Vokey Proto Wedge 60T with a KBS Tour 130X shaft and Golf Pride Tour Velvet. Standard length, lie, and loft. Raw wedge in good condition. No initials. Price is $200 shipped. Buy both wedges for $380 shipped.

To check out the full listing in our BST forum, head through the link. If you are curious about the rules to participate in the BST Forum, you can learn more here: GolfWRX BST Rules.

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Whats in the Bag

Ryan Palmer WITB 2026 (June)

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Driver: Callaway Quantum Triple Diamond (9 degrees)
Shaft: Project X HZRDUS Smoke Blue RDX 60 TX

3-wood: TaylorMade Qi10 (15 degrees)
Shaft: Project X HZRDUS T1100 70 6.5

5-wood: TaylorMade SIM2 Max (18 degrees)
Shaft: Project X HZRDUS Smoke Black RDX 80 TX

Irons: Srixon ZXiU (23 degrees), Srixon Z785 MB (5-PW)
Shafts: Project X HZRDUS Smoke Black RDX 100 6.5 (4), KBS Tour 130 X

Wedges: Titleist Vokey Design SM11 (50-08F, 54-10S, 58-04T @59)
Shafts: KBS Tour 130 X

Putter: Odyssey Dual Force Rossie II

Ball: Titleist Pro V1x

Grips: Golf Pride Tour Velvet

Check out more in-hand photos of Ryan Palmer’s clubs here.

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Slab city on the Korn Ferry Tour — Lead Tape Report

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This week, we have our Tour Photographer, Greg Moore, on the ground at the OccuNet Classic at Tascosa Golf Club in Amarillo, Texas, for the 14th event of the 2026 Korn Ferry Tour season. With that, we see some great things in the Lead Tape Report as we roll into Amarillo.

Joel Thelen

Monday Qualifier, Joel Thelen is in the field this week. He has played on the Korn Ferry Tour for a full season in 2023, and he is back in action this week. A couple of clubs caught my eye this week in his bag.

First off: His trusted Titleist 816 H2 hybrid. This club came out in October of 2015, and it still remains strong in the bag. Also, take a look at this Odyssey White Hot OG 7, putting a capital S in the 7S model. This custom neck has some impressive lean for an arm-lock-style putter. The bottom of the putter is covered in tape for optimal weighting.

Mitchell Meissner

Taking a look at Mitchell Meissner’s bag this week, we have some great lead tape coverage. Top to bottom working from fairway metals, irons, and wedges. We can see on the short irons and wedges that there is tape at the base of the grip, adding a little counterbalance. Along with that, some tape on the short irons and wedges as well. Moving to his putter, he rolls the Odyssey 7 Bird putter. Meissner putts left-handed and strikes the ball right-handed. 

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