Drawing the Spotlight

After 3-win season on PGA Tour, Colorado Golf Hall of Famer Wyndham Clark picked to tee it up in 2026 Skins Game, set for Nov. 27

By Gary Baines 

Coming off the most successful season of his PGA Tour career, Colorado Golf Hall of Famer Wyndham Clark is seeing the fruits of his labor paying off — even when it comes to what have been dubbed “silly season” exhibition events.

On Tuesday, the field for the Skins Game — a high-profile competition which dates back to 1983 — was unveiled, and the 2026 edition will include Clark, a Colorado native and Valor Christian High School graduate.

Clark, Brooks Koepka, Justin Thomas and rookie phenom Jackson Koivun will tee it up on Friday, Nov. 27 at Atlantic Fields Club in Hobe Sound, Fla., for the made-for-TV/streaming event. Amazon Prime Video will show the competition this time around, beginning at 7 a.m. MT. No subscription or Prime membership is necessary.

At the Skins Game, players who win a hole outright earn a Skin and the money that goes with it, with the cash from tied holes carrying over to the next. In all, $4 million will be up for grabs at the 2026 event.

Clark landed the coveted spot in the Friday-after-Thanksgiving competition by putting together a stellar 2026 on the PGA Tour. Not only did he win three Tour events — matching the most by anyone so far this year — but one of them came at the U.S. Open, a title he’s now captured twice in the last four years. After also winning the Byron Nelson and the BMW Championship, Clark now has scored six victories on the PGA Tour, including two majors.

The first Skins Game, in 1983, featured Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, Gary Player and Tom Watson, with Player winning. After a long period where the competition wasn’t held (2009-24), it returned last year, with Tommy Fleetwood, Keegan Bradley, Xander Schauffele and Shane Lowry teeing it up and Bradley winning the most money ($2.1 million).

About the Writer: Gary Baines has covered golf in Colorado continuously since 1983. He was a sports writer at the Daily Camera newspaper in Boulder, then the sports editor there, and has written regularly for ColoradoGolf.org since 2009. The University of Colorado Evans Scholar alum was inducted into the Colorado Golf Hall of Fame in 2022. He owns and operates ColoradoGolfJournal.com