Wyndham Clark reflects on how therapy resurged his golf career, getting hot in time for Masters

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Wyndham Clark is getting hot at the right time, and had it not been for getting professional help, it may never have happened.

It's been a solid 12 months for Clark – entering the Wells Fargo Championship last May, he had just nine top-10 finishes, with zero wins. Well, he won that event, then won the U.S. Open the following June, which he parlayed into an appearance for the United States Ryder Cup team.

He has carried his success from last year to this year – thanks to a course-record, third-round 60 at Pebble Beach in January, he won the weather-shortened event, and had it not been for a red-hot Scottie Scheffler (and a heartbreaking lip-out on Sunday at The Players), he could have won back-to-back weekends this month.

According to the PGA's website, Clark has earned over $23.5 million in career prize money – over $18 million of that has come since last season. But he had some serious work to do to get to his current state.

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Wyndham Clark reacts after a putt on the 13th green during the Ryder Cup at Marco Simone Golf Club on Sept. 29, 2023, in Rome. (Richard Heathcote/Getty Images)

Clark's mother died from breast cancer while he was playing at Oklahoma State, and when his career didn't start out as many expected (his first win came at age 29, while one of his contemporaries, Jordan Spieth, had multiple majors at age 21), the walls started to cave in.

But, as Netflix's "Full Swing" highlighted, Clark, reluctantly, began to see a sports psychiatrist. And since then, "it's been an awesome journey."

"In golf, I was so focused on outcome and results. I wasn’t getting results – now I’m