Wyndham Clark talks TGL, Brooks Koepka and Dan Lanning being better than Curt Cignetti
Yahoo Sports Daily hosts Caroline Fenton and Jason Fitz are joined by professional golfer Wyndham Clark to share his thoughts on Brooks Koepka’s potential return to the PGA, the TGL and why he thinks Dan Lanning is a better coach than Curt Cignetti. Watch the full episode of Yahoo Sports Daily on YouTube or YahooSports.TV .
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Brooks Koepka has announced his intention to leave LIV Golf.
We all saw this.
Would you welcome Brooks back on the PGA Tour?
Even, maybe, welcome him to TGL one day?
Um, for sure, TGL.
I'm good buddies with, uh, with Brooks, and, you know, I- I- I don't know.
I'm torn on this.
As a guy that kind of stayed on the PGA Tour, I don't know how I feel about it.
But I also know Brooks is one of the best players in the world.
And I think it benefits the tour.
So, it'll be interesting to see what happens.
Um, yeah.
I mean, that's kind of all I can give you.
I I don't I don't really know.
I just want whatever is best for the PGA Tour.
I will allow you to put your Oregon Ducks fan hat on.
Put your green and yellow-tinted glasses on; be a total and complete fan.
Oregon has lost one game this season, and that was to Indiana earlier this year.
Do you love the fact that you get a rematch in this game?
Or as a fan, are you hoping that it could have just been?
You know, a totally brand-new, fresh opponent?
I mean, Yeah, we would have liked to play someone different.
I mean, Indiana is the number one team in the country.
But if you gave me the choice between playing, like, Ohio State or Georgia in this game, I would choose Indiana just for the sheer fact that beating a team twice is very difficult.
You saw it last year with the Ducks.
We beat Ohio State, And then we played them first round and lost.
So, um, Yeah, I feel good.
You know, and I feel like we're the underdog, And I think Dan Lanning's going to have the team ready to go.
And obviously it's an uphill battle, but I think this is kind of the championship game.
If I'm being honest, I think whoever wins this probably goes on to Win the championship.
Somebody who is an epic trash-talker, Though, is Oregon's head coach, Dan Lanning.
I will inject his pregame and halftime hype-up speeches into my veins.
Is he a better coach than Curt Cignetti?
Oh, 100%.
I I do think...
I mean, what he's done at Indiana is very impressive.
But I mean, Dan's won championships with Georgia.
Pretty sure he's won it with Alabama.
Like, he'she'she's kind of done it all.
He just has to do it on his own, and I think you have two coaches that haven't won on their own.
So, um, yeah.
I mean, it'sit's going to be a fair battle, and...
But I put my allegiance with Dan.
I've been around him.
He's the most intense guy I've ever been around.
His, like you said, His pregame speeches are epic.
I got to see a postgame speech before.
They played CU.
I don't know if it was last year.
Yeah, I think it was last year.
And man, I...
Being in there, I got chills.
I wanted to run through a wall.
And so I'm hoping that he gets the guys like That's for this next game.
But yeah, I'm a huge Dan Lanning fan.
This is the first TGL match of the season, so give us a little bit of why you're excited.
Excited to be in year two of this TGL fun.
Well, you know, last year we didn't know what we were getting ourselves into.
And the, you know, the first few, you're just getting used to the simulator.
The arena, et cetera.
And this year, now we know.
We're kind of veterans, and we realized how fun it was last year.
You know, the team aspect was amazing.
The atmosphere is really fun.
And so I'm just excited to get back in SoFi Center and, Be with my teammates and hopefully get a W.
