Ryder Cup star takes aim at Zach Johnson over 'crazy' captaincy decision

Wyndham Clark made his Ryder Cup debut nether Zach Johnson past year, with the Americans losing to Europe, and has since compared his captaincy to Jim Furyk

Wyndham Clark has formed uncertainty connected the enactment skills of erstwhile Team USA skipper Zach Johnson, comparing his captaincy unfavourably to that of Jim Furyk astatine the caller Presidents Cup.

Clark made his Ryder Cup debut nether Johnson successful Rome past year, but it ended connected a sour enactment arsenic the Americans were defeated 16.5-11.5 by their European rivals. Fast guardant 12 months and Clark finally tasted triumph with Team USA, playing his portion successful the Presidents Cup triumph implicit the Internationals.

Having present competed successful some nether 2 abstracted captains, the erstwhile U. S. Open champion has had clip to comparison the enactment of some Johnson and Furyk, and opted to broadside with the latter.

For Clark, his vocation contented with Johnson centered astir his deficiency of clarity successful respect to playing partners, thing Furyk was seemingly bully at. "I'll springiness you an example," helium told the No Laying Up podcast of Furyk's awesome enactment arsenic a captain.

"On the Saturday wherever we had the 36-hole time astatine the Presidents Cup, helium told me, 'OK Wyndham, I'm going to enactment you and Keegan [Bradley] retired successful the greeting and I'm going to beryllium you successful the afternoon. Are you bully with that?'"

When it came to the Ryder Cup and Johnson though, things were different. Clark revealed the astonishing disarray erstwhile helium joined a squad successful Rome, "Honestly 1 of the biggest shocks erstwhile I played for the squad successful Rome was conscionable that I didn't truly cognize who I was playing with.

"I was like, 'OK, well, I didn't truly play a signifier circular with him.' So it was conscionable disjointed. It's conscionable brainsick to me."

Clark's stint included going toe-to-toe with golf heavyweights securing a constituent with Max Homa against Justin Rose and Robert MacIntyre, followed by triumph implicit Rory McIlroy and Matt Fitzpatrick with Patrick Cantlay, an lawsuit not without its play involving Cantlay's caddie, Joe LaCava.

"You tin say, 'OK, I've lone got to hole for the morning, it is champion ball, truthful I'm going to spell and marque definite that I person my champion crippled and spell retired determination and triumph and I'm going to beryllium reasoning astir birdies.'

"Or, if it was alternate changeable you commencement visualising like, 'Hey, I cognize I'm conscionable playing alternate changeable truthful I'm going to visualise my tee shots, the putts I'm going to have, oregon the robust shots I'm going to person in'. I mean, it sounds similar a no-brainer."