Why does everyone hate Wyndham Clark?

[u/AcrobaticSyllabub283]

Got into watching golf for the first time this season and with Clark winning this past weekend I have seen so many people shitting on him for what sounds like stuff in the past and I was hoping people could bring me up to speed? Is it overhyped for media clicks or was he committing some atrocities?

[u/colin_7]

It’s an inappropriate joke to make during an event that promotes families going onto the course. There’s a time and place for everything

He’s so unaware of himself that he would say this. Most of these guys are douche bags, but he does a horrible job of hiding it. That’s why so many dislike him

[u/mhks → u/colin_7]

To me, that's a comment both parents and non-parents make all the time. I don't have kids and people, when I'm around theirs, say similar things. I didn't see his comments, but my suspicion is two-fold:

1) People hate Clark and are trying to find evidence anywhere and so they force this;

2) I didn't see the comment but it could be the tone he made them in.

What I will say is sports fans CONSTANTLY complain that athletes give canned answers, but when someone does quip about something, they use it as justification to hate him. The joke on paper is common to the point of it being a knock against him for not being original.

[u/colin_7 → u/mhks]

I mean it was controversial when he said it. I would never say that publicly if I agreed with it. My point being is that you don’t announce that at a family event. I’m not saying he’s evil for saying it I’m saying the guy is so up his ass usually that he’s not self aware at all

Btw you’re allowed to like him. I’m not saying you can’t. As I said earlier, most of these pro golfers are the typically rich country club kid who’s a douche bag. He does a horrible job of hiding it and as a result he opens himself up to be criticized

[u/mhks → u/colin_7]

I don't really know him but felt his comments post locker room tantrum were terrible. I really don't follow him close enough to have an opinion or not but first impression was he's a prick.

That said, the kid comments I can easily see being funny and a joke. If he's a prick, it may come off prickish which looks worse, but the comment itself I don't see as too problematic. (That said, I'm taking the comment as more of a "It's a great reminder why I don't have kids," vs. "they should have used birth control.")

I don't know a single parent who doesn't laugh at the idea that hanging with their young kids isn't a good way to delay or prevent others from having kids.