Tim Clark has finally broken through on the PGA Tour, winning the Players Championship. Although a regular player on the PGA Tour, this KwaZulu-Natal South Coast player, had never won having finished second 8 times on the world’s toughest tour. The Players Championship is basically known as the fifth major, or is the most important tournament of the year other than the four majors, so apart from winning approximately $1.7 million for coming first, he has certainly won a very prestigious title.

He strikes the ball a fairly short distance, relative to today’s top professionals, but his strength is his accuracy off the tee and he is particularly good with his irons as well. He also played in the Sun City Nedbank Challenge at the end of last year, featuring well and the winner of that tournament, Robert Allenby, finished second to him. The previous year’s winner of a Nedbank Challenge, Henrik Stenson, won the Players Championship the year after, so there seems to be quite a good correlation between the results in the Nedbank Challenge and the Players Championship.