A Wyndham Clark mishit during Friday’s second round of the PGA Championship created a frightful moment as his ball struck a video camera held by a spectator about 10 yards away, narrowly missing several other people.
Based on the PGA’s online leaderboard, the moment came on the left side of the 11th hole at Aronimink Golf Club just outside of Philadelphia, on Clark’s second shot. An 11-second video of the incident was posted to TikTok by @abbiebrackin1 at about 5 p.m. ET, and it can be watched below.
As seen on the video, about 50 people stood around Clark and his caddie as he hit his ball from a patchy lie. The people to Clark’s right were about 5 yards away, and the people to his left were less than that. After Clark made contact with the ball, the ball flared out to his left and appeared to strike the lens of the spectator’s video camera about 10 yards away.
The impact startled those around the person holding the camera. A young girl to the right of the person squatted down after impact, then turned to the camera recording what had happened. A man to the right of the girl jerked back. No one appeared to be injured. The ball ricocheted off the camera and to the left.
In the posted video, several comments could be heard.
“Is everyone ok?”
“Or did he hit the camera?”
“It was the camera.”
“Oh my God.”
Clark, the 2023 U.S. Open winner, will not play the weekend at the PGA after missing the cut. As of late Friday night, he had posted any comments about the incident to his social media accounts.
Nick Piastowski
Golf.com Editor
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