Zoom, 77, Set goes sour...

I would always check call the flop here
you're raising into a strong UTG range with very few bluffs
you don't even protect against much with the Ac on the board, there's only very few :club::club: combos utg can have remaining

So I'd always check call like I do with all the weak Ax 9x I have here and then play accordingly

I would 100% x/r this lol.
Why?-> he's never folding an ace immediately. Also when we x/c we can get alot of action killers on the turn (i.e. 3rd club).

We can x/c the few Ax we have in our range here. Villain probably won't triple barrel this board wide, since after we x/c it's quite obvious we have hit something. So he won't barrel naked bluffs.

I actually missread the hand
it's even more of a check call in the SB you just never bluff (besides one TJcc combo maybe?)and when you c/r and a club falls it sucks really bad where if you call you can still easily call down with the Ac there and get value with call check bet line.

your assumptions about river seem fair, I'd prefer to mix in a check raise turn if that's the case though

C/R is fine if you are playing against a recreational player of course. Or if you think the whole pool and a likely reg just suck, I'd give 25NL guys like my boy Drifter at least some credit though