Wyndham Clark won the CJ CUP Byron Nelson on Sunday at TPC Craig Ranch.
Clark fired a magnificent final round of 60 to beat Si Woo Kim by three and Scottie Scheffler by five at the CJ CUP Byron Nelson.
All eyes were on TPC Craig Ranch last week after Lanny Wadkins oversaw a renovation project to the tune of a cool $25 million.
Wyndham Clark finished the week at TPC Craig Ranch at 30-under par, and that certainly wasn’t what Wadkins had in mind ahead of the CJ CUP Byron Nelson.
Lanny Wadkins wanted to see a winning score of around 15-under par at the CJ CUP, after the changes that he made to the golf course at TPC Craig Ranch.
While the conditions were soft and there was minimal wind, the changes made by Wadkins clearly didn’t have the desired effect.
Johnson Wagner ‘disappointed’ with what he saw during the CJ CUP
Former PGA Tour player turned analyst Johnson Wagner spoke about last week’s event at TPC Craig Ranch during an appearance on the Golf on CBS Podcast.
He responded when asked what he made of the golf course in general and, indeed, the recent redesign.
“I mean, some of the getting up onto the tabletops, there was some of the most severe dramatic slopes,“ Wagner said.
“However, on the flat, they were easy reads.
“I mean, I could read them from 30 yards away on the other side of the green.
“I was like, ‘Oh, that’s gonna go one ball right to left’.
“They were extremely easy to read, and honestly, like, look at Aronimink Golf Club for the PGA Championship.
“You want to make greens tougher, just have little subtle Donald Ross sort of sections, and you don’t need these sharp edges up to the top.“
Johnson Wagner to give TPC Craig Ranch redesign one more chance
Wagner suggested that he’s willing to give the golf course at TPC Craig Ranch one more chance before he makes a judgement.
“I was very disappointed, and then what I saw out there, as far as spending $25 million in getting that product,“ Wagner admitted.
“I mean, I need to just settle down a little bit, because I’ve never seen four consecutive days of that little wind in the state of Texas, plus the rain leading in, made it softer.
“I’m gonna give it one more year before I absolutely crush this golf course, but it is not any better in year one, that’s for sure.“
With or without wind, there are plenty of ways that Wadkins and the PGA Tour could’ve made TPC Craig Ranch more challenging.
Shaving down the banks between the greens and water hazards would have been an easy win, while growing the rough up and creating bottlenecks on the fairways at around the 310-yard mark would have been another.
More common sense will be required moving forward at the CJ CUP Byron Nelson.
