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The clubs Wyndham Clark used to win the 2026 BMW Championship

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Alex Slitz

By E. Michael Johnson
August 23, 2026
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If Wyndham Clark’s victory at the BMW Championship seemed eerily similar to his two U.S. Open wins, it’s because it contained elements of both. Clark downed Rory McIlroy at Los Angeles C.C. in 2023 and survived frittering away a substantial lead at Shinnecock Hills earlier this summer. At Bellerive C.C., Clark did both, besting the Masters champion after squandering a five-shot 54-hole lead.

It wasn’t pretty, but Clark will take his even-par 70. However, his superior play over the first 54 holes and a timely birdie at the par-3 16th proved enough.

Tied with McIlroy, Clark struck his Titleist T200 5-iron to 17 feet and then rolled in his first putt of more than 10 feet on the day to break the deadlock. Another birdie putt at the 17th, a 13-footer, gave him some breathing room and one more on 18 capped his furious finish.

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These mallets look to steady your stroke with multiple onset versions that match the shaft and the center of gravity. They also attempt to steady your mind with calming alignment features that promote confident aim. The two onset models (Ally Blue, Ketsch) feature shaft positions back from the face but just in front of the center of gravity, which encourages pulling the putter through the hitting area instead of pushing it for a consistent stroke. The goal is to provide the feel of putting with a blade with the aim and stability of a mallet. The alignment aid features a long line and a single dot. It’s a result of eye-tracking research that shows that combining a line and a focal point calms the vision right before the start of the putting stroke. A third model (Hayden) uses a face-balanced heel-shafted orientation to promote a cleaner view of the alignment aid and a straight-back, straight-through stroke. The lightweight aluminum construction saves mass that’s redistributed in a steel sole plate that lowers the center of gravity and adds perimeter weighting for improved consistency on off-center hits. The face insert uses Pebax, a soft but resilient elastomer developed for the soles of athletic shoes. It mixes a softer feel with good energy transfer for consistent distance control. Top 5 in Sound/Feel, middle-handicaps Models: Ally Blue Onset, Hayden, Ketsch Onset. Head weights: 350 (Ketsch), 360 (Hayden), 370 grams (Ally Blue Onset). Lengths: 35, 38 inches. Loft: 3 degrees
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His putter is a Ping Scottsdale Tec Ally Blue Onset mallet, a club he put in play at the Masters after going through multiple putters in the first few months of the season. Clark’s putter has several strips of lead tape on the bottom of the sole to counterbalance the weight of the long, oversize Superstroke Revl Mid F/C grip. The 38-inch putter has 3 degrees of loft, a 20-degree lie angle and an estimated head weight of 400 grams, extremely heavy given most putters are in the 340- to 360-gram range. For the week Clark ranked 10th in strokes gained/putting, despite being more than 1.4 strokes worse than the field average in the final round, speaking to his proficiency with the putter the first three days.

Clark’s putter is not zero torque but rather an onset model. Onset putters are designed with the shaft near the center line of the putter head, behind the top rail and ahead of the center of gravity. That provides golfers with a full-face view of the ball at address and encourages more of a pulling motion instead of a push-like stroke, which Ping feels is more consistent.

This theory was first employed by Ping founder Karsten Solheim, who often used a wheelbarrow analogy to make his point. He described how much easier and more stable it was to pull a wheelbarrow over a curb instead of pushing it over the curb.

Or to pull out a win in St. Louis.

What Wyndham Clark had in the bag at the 2026 BMW Championship

Ball: Titleist Pro V1x

Driver: TaylorMade Qi4D (Project X Titan Yellow 60 TX), 8 degrees

3-wood: Ping G440 Max, 15 degrees

5-wood: Ping G440 Max, 18 degrees

Irons (4-5): Titleist T200; (6-9): Titleist T100

Wedges: Titleist Vokey SM11 (44, 50, 54 degrees); Titleist Vokey WedgeWorks (60 degrees)

Putter: Ping Scottsdale Tec Ally Blue Onset

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