Wyndham Clark discusses his recent cheating accusations, says he wants golf's rules to be more 'user-friendly'

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In the midst of Wyndham Clark's great success the past 365 days, he's been the epicenter of a couple of cheating controversies.

During his U.S. Open victory last year, fans said Clark should have been assessed a penalty in the final round after a grainy video showed him grounding a club greenside that may or may not have caused the ball to move.

At the Arnold Palmer Invitational, Clark did the same, grounding his club in the rough, which clearly showed the ball move. He was not given a penalty, however, and finished the tournament in second place.

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Wyndham Clark lines up a putt during the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am on February 3, 2024, in Pebble Beach, California. (Christian Petersen/Getty Images)

It should be noted that a ball is allowed to "move," but if it returns to its original spot (it oscillates, in a fancier term), no penalty shall be assessed.

The Arnold Palmer Invitational incident was caught on live television, which Clark admitted didn't "look great."

But Clark, for the lack of a better term, maintained his innocence.

"It is unfortunate, because I had no ill intent to try to cheat or improve my lie," he told Fox News Digital in a recent interview. "I didn’t even know anything had happened until I got into the scoring tent, and that’s when they showed me the video. You see the video, and you’re like, ‘Oh man, that doesn’t look great.'"

"It’s unfortunate that it looks poorly, but I really had no ill intents."

Clark, though, said he and Scottie Scheffler, with whom he was paired for the final two rounds of that tournament (and he finished second on back-to-back weekends),