{"id":858161,"date":"2026-09-23T20:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T20:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/858161\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T20:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T20:26:10","slug":"presidents-cup-2026-thursdays-fourball-matchups-starting-times-at-medinah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/858161\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidents Cup 2026: Thursday&#8217;s fourball matchups, starting times at Medinah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.golfchannel.com\/presidents-cup\/news\/presidents-cup-2026-how-to-watch-the-u-s-and-international-squads-face-off\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">16th Presidents Cup<\/a> gets underway on Thursday at Medinah Country Club\u2019s No. 3 Course outside of Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>The first session features five fourball matches, the<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.golfchannel.com\/watch\/live\/presidents-cup-day-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> first of which tees off at 12:35 p.m. ET.<\/a> The par-4 first hole for the competition is usually the fifth hole for members, with the 18th hole of the alternate routing being the regular fourth hole.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday\u2019s session will be followed by a five-match foursomes session on Friday, two four-match sessions of each team format on Saturday, and a 12-match singles session on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.golfchannel.com\/watch\/live\/presidents-cup-opening-ceremony\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> opening ceremony<\/a> will run noon-12:30 p.m. ET on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The complete Thursday fourball matchups and starting times will be announced live on <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.golfchannel.com\/watch\/live\/live-from-the-presidents-cup-wednesday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Golf Channel\u2019s Live From the Presidents Cup at 4:45 p.m. ET Wednesday<\/a> as both captains make their selections in real-time.<\/p>\n<p>Match 1 \u2013 12:35 p.m. \u2013 TBD<\/p>\n<p>Match 2 \u2013 12:53 p.m. \u2013 TBD<\/p>\n<p>Match 3 \u2013 1:11 p.m. \u2013 TBD<\/p>\n<p>Match 4 \u2013 1:29 p.m. \u2013 TBD<\/p>\n<p>Match 5 \u2013 1:47 p.m. \u2013 TBD<\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"Link\" aria-label=\"Presidents Cup - Day 1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.golfchannel.com\/watch\/live\/presidents-cup-day-1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"Image for Presidents Cup - Day 1\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1790195170_652_.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Day 1 of the 2026 Presidents Cup gets underway as the world\u2019s top players battle for the first points of the competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 16th Presidents Cup gets underway on Thursday at Medinah Country Club\u2019s No. 3 Course outside of Chicago.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":858162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-858161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=858161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/858162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}