When Wyndham Clark’s birdie putt lipped out of the cup late last
Sunday at Ponte Vedra, it was not exactly a downer, espeically for his
banker since Clark got a grand total of $1,981,667—say $2 million dollars
for his week at the Players Championship.
Not every tournament rewards as handsomely as this brainchild of
former tour commissioner, Deane Beman, who came up with the concept of
this event, boldly espousing that The Tournament Players Championship
could become golf’s fifth major. Beman felt that the Players would draw the strongest field in golf and that would allow the tour to make headway with the fifth major idea.