Oakmont Bans Golfer Wyndham Clark After Locker Room Rampage

Oakmont Country Club has banned Wyndham Clark a month after photos from his locker room tantrum went viral. 

In a letter obtained by Golf Digest, Oakmont Country Club president John Lynch told members Clark has been suspended from the club after he damaged several lockers. The incident occurred after consecutive 74s to miss the cut at the U.S. Open in June.

Lynch wrote that “Mr. Clark will no longer be permitted on OCC property,” and that “reinstatement would be contingent upon Mr. Clark fulfilling a number of specific conditions.”

The conditions include:

• Reimbursing the club for the damaged lockers
• A “meaningful contribution” to a charity of the board’s choosing
• Counseling and/or anger management sessions

The week after the U.S. Open at the Travelers Championship, Clark apologized.

“I’ve had a lot of highs and lows in my career, especially this year some lows,” Clark said. “I made a mistake that I deeply regret. I’m very sorry for what happened. But I’d also like to move on, not only for myself but for Oakmont, for the USGA, and kind of focus on the rest of this year and things that come up. I still want to try to make the Ryder Cup team. I still am on the outside looking in for the FedEx Cup. So I’m starting to move on and focus on those things.”

Clark may want to “move on,” but it appears that if he wants to return to one of the USGA’s anchor sites, he’ll have to meet Oakmont’s conditions.

At Los Angeles Country Club in 2023, Clark won the U.S. Open fending off Rory McIlroy by one stroke. This victory gives Clark an automatic exemption into the event for 10 years. The U.S. Open returns to Oakmont in 2033, giving Clark eight years to meet Lynch’s terms. 

Clark has already made rounds across social media for throwing and breaking his driver on the 16th hole of the PGA Championship in May. The club almost hit one of the Trackman launch monitors used for the broadcast that cost over $25,000.

The 31-year old failed to register a top-10 finish in any of the PGA Tour’s eight signature events in 2025, and is 68th on the money list with $1,901,025 to date this year.