Wyndham Clark spent the early part of 2026 searching for a putter, an endeavor that can make even a major champion resemble a guy wandering through Home Depot looking for a tool that may not exist. His search ended in late March when Clark put a Ping Scottsdale TEC Ally Blue Onset putter in his bag at the Texas Children’s Houston Open.
“I was playing good earlier in the year, I just wasn’t making putts,” Clark said Sunday evening after winning the BMW Championship. “Then I finally found the putter that I love.”
Love can be complicated, but this relationship has been remarkably straightforward.
Through the Valspar Championship, the week before Houston, Clark ranked 147th on the PGA Tour in Strokes Gained: Putting, losing 0.645 strokes per measured
round. He was 132nd in putting average, 123rd in three-putt avoidance and 67th in putts per round.
Since switching to the Ally Blue, Clark’s transformation on the greens has been dramatic.
Even with poor early performances included in his season-long stats, Clark now ranks 16th in Strokes Gained: Putting, gaining 0.440 strokes per measured round. He’s jumped from 132nd in putting average to No. 1 and also is the top-ranked player in birdie-or-better conversion.
More importantly, the improvement has translated into wins. Clark used the putter to shoot 30 under and win the CJ Cup Byron Nelson, where he gained more than 12.5 strokes on the greens and set a ShotLink-era tournament record. He then won the U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills before adding the BMW Championship on Sunday at Bellerive.
The victory moved him from eighth to fourth in the Official World Golf Ranking.
Golfers do not win three times simply because they got a new putter, but Clark’s turnaround began when he stopped searching and found a putter that helped him convert opportunities he had been wasting. Before switching to the Ally Blue, Clark ranked T-131 in putts made between 4 and 8 feet (64.7 percent). Now, for the season, he ranks 28th (72 percent)
Those are the putts that save rounds, turn bogeys into pars and pars into birdies. Clark is making them now.
David Dusek is a senior writer at Golfweek covering equipment.
This article originally appeared on Golfweek: Wyndham Clark's putting turnaround — Lightning in a bottle?
