Presidents Cup row rumbles on as Team USA star bites back at Tom Kim

Wyndham Clark has go the latest subordinate to measurement successful connected the disfigured spat betwixt the United States and International teams astatine the Presidents Cup, with Tom Kim astatine the centre of the controversy

Wyndham Clark has shrugged disconnected immoderate insinuations of undue conduct, downplaying the relation helium and his US teammates took portion successful during the fiery Presidents Cup face-off successful Canada.

At the Royal Montreal Golf Club, Clark and the American squad triumphed, clinching triumph with a people of 18.5-11.5 against their International competition, aft shining successful Sunday's singles matches. Despite the definitive extremity score, the contention remained choky passim the week, culminating successful a fiercely contested conflict connected the greens.

Emotions ran precocious during the four-day tourney successful Canada, with Tom Kim often uncovering himself astatine the bosom of the tension. At 25 years old, this was Tom Kim's sophomore effort astatine the Presidents Cup since his 2022 debut.

The archetypal time saw him engaging with Scottie Scheffler and, successful Saturday's foursomes, Kim, on with his teammate Si Woo Kim, got into a verbal scrap with Patrick Cantlay and Xander Schauffele. A memorable infinitesimal unfolded erstwhile Si Woo brilliantly chipped successful from a bunker connected the 16th spread and celebrated with Steph Curry's iconic "Night, Night" gesture.

However, simply 2 holes later, Team International succumbed to Cantlay and Schauffele. Witnessing the furore arsenic an observer, Clark couldn't defy mocking the Kims, imitating the "Night, Night" solemnisation himself. The incidental followed allegations made by Kim aboriginal that evening, successful which helium claimed the US squad swore astatine him and his chap International players.

This was confirmed by his caddie Paul Tesori, who spoke to SiriusXM PGA TOUR Radio this week, revealing: "I witnessed 3 [incidents] wherever members of the US squad emphatically got idiosyncratic with Tom and cursed astatine him and got precise personal."

Not agelong after, US golfer Clark shared his perspective. Speaking to Golf Digest's The Loop Podcast, helium recounted: "Earlier that greeting [Keegan Bradley] and I played Tom and Si Woo," and added, "And we witnessed them making tons of putts connected america and playing unbelievable and past evidently witnessed each of the celebrations that they were doing.

"And past conscionable immoderate of the different antics that possibly radical weren't seeing connected TV, that evidently conscionable benignant of gets you to wherever you're a small frustrated due to the fact that immoderate of it was extreme, successful my opinion. Some of it seemed a small fabricated and truthful it astir didn't look authentic, particularly for idiosyncratic that's usually beauteous quiet, and truthful it astir seemed similar they were trying to bash something."

Clark besides touched upon the incidental involving Si Woo Kim astatine the 18th green, stating: "So we could consciousness that. And truthful [Keegan] and I lost, they bushed america just and square. They played unbelievable."

He justified his absorption to the mocking of Si Woo, explaining that it came aft the International stars had celebrated successful beforehand of his teammate Tony Finau.

"He did that close successful beforehand of Tony Finau and I," helium revealed. "And we looked astatine each other. We're like, 'It's a choky shot game. I don't recognize wherefore you would bash that? ' And past we spell to 18, obviously, and we some were sitting determination and we're like, 'Man, if we triumph this hole, we're for definite giving them we're putting it close backmost successful their face'."