{"id":49683,"date":"2026-04-16T02:48:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T02:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/49683\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T02:48:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T02:48:16","slug":"wyndham-clark-will-team-with-taylor-moore-in-2026-zurich-classic-of-new-orleans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/49683\/","title":{"rendered":"Wyndham Clark will team with Taylor Moore in 2026 Zurich Classic of New Orleans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tWyndham Clark, winner of the 2023 U.S. Open, will team with Taylor Moore in the 2026 Zurich Classic of New Orleans, announced Steve Worthy, CEO of the Fore!Kids Foundation, producer of the tournament.\u201cWyndham has won at the highest levels with victories in a major championship and two other signature events,\u201d said Worthy. \u201cBoth he and Taylor have had success in the Zurich Classic playing with different partners, so this pairing should be a strong one,\u201d he added. Clark earned a spot on the 2023 American Ryder Cup team and posted a 1-1-1 record at Marco Simone Club in Rome. In 2024 he posted a record of 1-2-1 in the successful defense of the Presidents Cup played at the Royal Montreal Golf Club.He has found success in the past at the Zurich Classic, with a third in 2023 after a tie for 10th the year before and a tie for 17th in 2021. He posted nine top-25 finishes in 2025, the best a tie for fourth in The Open Championship.  He also enjoyed a very successful year in 2024, when he rose to be ranked third in the world. He won the rain-shortened 2024 AT&amp;T Pebble Beach Pro-Am after posting a 60 in the third round, the first score that low at Pebble Beach Golf Links. The next month, he took second alone in the Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard. Later in March, his 17-foot putt to force a playoff in The Players Championship spun around  and started a descent into the cup before defying gravity and resting on the putting surface, leaving Clark tied for second. In addition to his U.S. Open victory in 2023, he also won the Wells Fargo Championship that year and posted five top-10 finishes, including a third in the season-ending Tour Championship.Clark started full-time on the PGA Tour in the 2018-19 season and became one of eight rookies to qualify for the BMW Championship in the fall that year.As an amateur, he was a finalist for the Byron Nelson Award and was a two-time Colorado state champion. He was named Colorado Player of the Year in 2011. In college, he started playing for Oklahoma State, finishing ninth in the 2013 U.S. Amateur. He then transferred to the University of Oregon in 2016. At Oregon, he won the Pac-12 conference championship and was named Pac-12 Player of the Year.Taylor Moore, Clark\u2019s partner this year, finished tied for fourth at the Zurich Classic in both 2022 and 2023, playing with Matthew NeSmith. He won the 2023 Valspar Championship for his lone victory on the PGA Tour. This year he has recorded two top-10 finishes, a tie for seventh in The American Express and a tie for ninth in the WM Phoenix Open.This season, his best finish was a tie for second in the Cognizant Classic. In 2025 he posted two top-10 finishes, a tie for seventh in The American Express and a tie for ninth in the WM Phoenix Open. In 2024, he tied for second in the Texas Children\u2019s Houston Open, the first runner-up finish in his PGA Tour career. He also tied for 12th in the PGA Championship, one of eight top-25 finishes he recorded last year.In 2022, he qualified for the FedExCup playoffs in his rookie season that included a tie for fifth in the Wyndham Championship to go along with his tie for fourth in the Zurich Classic.In college, he was named Southeastern Conference Freshman of the Year in 2012-13 at Arkansas.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tNEW ORLEANS \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Wyndham Clark, winner of the 2023 U.S. Open, will team with Taylor Moore in the 2026 Zurich Classic of New Orleans, announced Steve Worthy, CEO of the Fore!Kids Foundation, producer of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWyndham has won at the highest levels with victories in a major championship and two other signature events,\u201d said Worthy. \u201cBoth he and Taylor have had success in the Zurich Classic playing with different partners, so this pairing should be a strong one,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n<p>Clark earned a spot on the 2023 American Ryder Cup team and posted a 1-1-1 record at Marco Simone Club in Rome. In 2024 he posted a record of 1-2-1 in the successful defense of the Presidents Cup played at the Royal Montreal Golf Club.<\/p>\n<p>He has found success in the past at the Zurich Classic, with a third in 2023 after a tie for 10th the year before and a tie for 17th in 2021. <\/p>\n<p>He posted nine top-25 finishes in 2025, the best a tie for fourth in The Open Championship.  <\/p>\n<p>He also enjoyed a very successful year in 2024, when he rose to be ranked third in the world. He won the rain-shortened 2024 AT&amp;T Pebble Beach Pro-Am after posting a 60 in the third round, the first score that low at Pebble Beach Golf Links. The next month, he took second alone in the Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard. Later in March, his 17-foot putt to force a playoff in The Players Championship spun around  and started a descent into the cup before defying gravity and resting on the putting surface, leaving Clark tied for second. <\/p>\n<p>In addition to his U.S. Open victory in 2023, he also won the Wells Fargo Championship that year and posted five top-10 finishes, including a third in the season-ending Tour Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Clark started full-time on the PGA Tour in the 2018-19 season and became one of eight rookies to qualify for the BMW Championship in the fall that year.<\/p>\n<p>As an amateur, he was a finalist for the Byron Nelson Award and was a two-time Colorado state champion. He was named Colorado Player of the Year in 2011. <\/p>\n<p>In college, he started playing for Oklahoma State, finishing ninth in the 2013 U.S. Amateur. He then transferred to the University of Oregon in 2016. At Oregon, he won the Pac-12 conference championship and was named Pac-12 Player of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor Moore, Clark\u2019s partner this year, finished tied for fourth at the Zurich Classic in both 2022 and 2023, playing with Matthew NeSmith. <\/p>\n<p>He won the 2023 Valspar Championship for his lone victory on the PGA Tour. This year he has recorded two top-10 finishes, a tie for seventh in The American Express and a tie for ninth in the WM Phoenix Open.<\/p>\n<p>This season, his best finish was a tie for second in the Cognizant Classic. In 2025 he posted two top-10 finishes, a tie for seventh in The American Express and a tie for ninth in the WM Phoenix Open.<\/p>\n<p> In 2024, he tied for second in the Texas Children\u2019s Houston Open, the first runner-up finish in his PGA Tour career. He also tied for 12th in the PGA Championship, one of eight top-25 finishes he recorded last year.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, he qualified for the FedExCup playoffs in his rookie season that included a tie for fifth in the Wyndham Championship to go along with his tie for fourth in the Zurich Classic.<\/p>\n<p>In college, he was named Southeastern Conference Freshman of the Year in 2012-13 at Arkansas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wyndham Clark, winner of the 2023 U.S. Open, will team with Taylor Moore in the 2026 Zurich Classic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6],"tags":[28358,13197,22043,3079,28359,8543,2988,28355,13447,24228,28360,6580,28356,28357,628,51,22042],"class_list":["post-49683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zurich","tag-different-partner","tag-finish","tag-new-orleans","tag-pga-tour","tag-presidents-cup","tag-season","tag-success","tag-taylor-moore","tag-third","tag-tie","tag-u-s-open","tag-victory","tag-wyndam-clark","tag-wyndham-clark","tag-year","tag-zurich","tag-zurich-classic"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116412108166303754","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}