Wyndham Clark Sets Pebble Beach Course Record, Electrifies Fans with 3rd-Round 60

Pebble Beach is supposed to be one of golf's most intimidating venues with ocean breezes, daunting sightlines and water hazards everywhere.

Someone forgot to tell record-setter Wyndham Clark.

Clark sat at five-under coming into Saturday's third round of the 2024 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. He looked to be well on his way to a solid finish but didn't seem to be a threat to win the tournament.

It turns out a stunning 12-under 60 can turn around your chances at victory in a hurry.

As Jeff Babineau of PGATour.com noted, he tied the lowest score for the first nine holes of a single round at Pebble Beach for this tournament with a 28. That put him in position to challenge the tournament single-round scoring record at Pebble Beach of 62, and he surpassed it by multiple strokes.

Clark was brilliant throughout Saturday's round and catapulted himself to the top of the leaderboard.

He also earned plenty of reaction on social media for his performance:

There were plenty of changes for this year's AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am seeing how it is one of the PGA Tour's signature events. That meant a limited field with just 80 players, a significant $20 million purse, no cuts and no amateur partners after the second round.

Such changes drew a loaded field that included Rory McIlroy, Scottie Scheffler, Jordan Spieth, Collin Morikawa, Viktor Hovland, Justin Thomas, Max Homa, Xander Schauffele, Tony Finau, Jason Day, Patrick Cantlay, Tommy Fleetwood, Rickie Fowler and Hideki Matsuyama, among others.

But Clark outshone them all Saturday.

Most players would be ecstatic with one eagle throughout an entire round, but he notched two in the first six holes. Those early par-fives were no match for him, but he also birdied five straight holes from Nos. 7 through 11.

Even the bogey on No. 12 that ended that streak was incredible, as he chipped it off the green with an opposite-hand attempt and then putted it in from off the fringe.

Putting it in from the fringe was in line with much of his round, as he consistently drilled putts from outside 10 feet to rack up birdies throughout his round. He notched back-to-back birdies on Nos. 13 and 14 following the bogey to make sure his momentum didn't go anywhere.

His final push was one of what-could-have-been, as he just missed birdie putts on Nos. 16 and 17 with an even more unbelievable score hanging in the balance.

That put some pressure on the 18th, and he responded with his ninth birdie of the round to clinch his 60.

And now he's one round away from securing the tournament victory as well.