Ping has signed Wyndham Clark to a putter-only endorsement agreement ahead of the U.S. Open, making the Scottsdale TEC line the only club family tied to him under the deal. It is a rare move for a company that has spent more than 50 years sponsoring PGA Tour players, but Clark has given Ping a clear reason to narrow the focus: he has been rolling the putter well enough to change the shape of his season.
The timing matters because Clark is arriving at the U.S. Open with momentum built almost entirely on the greens. He first switched to the Scottsdale TEC Ally Blue Onset putter in March at the Texas Children’s Houston Open, then moved to a heavier counterbalanced version in April at the RBC Heritage. Since that change, his SG: Putting ranking has climbed from 155th to T62. Before the switch, he was losing.725 strokes a round with the flatstick. After it, he was gaining.120 strokes on the field.
The numbers have shown up in the results too. Clark’s make rate from 5 to 15 feet improved from 160th on Tour to 55th, and he won the CJ Cup Byron Nelson in May for the first time since 2024. He shot 60 in the final round, holed 158 feet on Sunday and led the field with more than 12.5 strokes gained for the week. Clark said the new putter helped him get back in the winner’s circle, and that the white finish first caught his eye before the head gave him immediate confidence when he started rolling putts with it. He added that he had never used a putter with onset before, but the look matches his eye and the top-rail dot has simplified alignment.
That is the part that makes this deal more than a routine equipment note. Clark started the year as an equipment free agent, yet Ping is now committing to a putter-only arrangement around a player who had not been tied down by any broader contract. The Scottsdale TEC line itself only reached retail at the end of March, and Ping is attaching it to a player who has already used the Ally Blue Onset model to climb from a slow start to a win and a pair of strong finishes, including third at the Memorial Tournament and T11 at the RBC Canadian Open. John K. Solheim said Clark comes into the U.S. Open as one of the hottest players in the world and has been trending upward since the Houston Open.
The question now is not whether the putter has worked. Ping has already answered that with the contract it announced Wednesday. The question is how far Clark can carry the Scottsdale TEC Ally Blue Onset model into the U.S. Open, and whether a club change that began as a search for comfort has become the one thing shaping both his results and Ping’s first putter-only deal in more than half a century.
