{"id":859739,"date":"2026-09-25T03:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T03:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/859739\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T03:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T03:46:10","slug":"wyndham-clark-on-thursday-crowds-at-medinah-kind-of-dead-out-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/859739\/","title":{"rendered":"Wyndham Clark on Thursday crowds at Medinah: ‘Kind of dead out there’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Cubs and White Sox both officially clinched playoff berths on Thursday, the former doing so in an afternoon game at Wrigley. Little of that buzz, however, reverberated 25 miles away at Medinah Country Club.<\/p>\n

The crowds, if not sparser than expected, were certainly muted for the first session of the 16th Presidents Cup, which the U.S. emerged from with a 3-2 lead.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was kind of dead out there,\u201d Wyndham Clark said, unprompted. \u201cI felt like the momentum could have been better, to be honest, because we weren\u2019t really feeling the fans, I think, as much as normal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Clark pointed to a shot Morikawa hit on the par-4 11th hole \u2013 a 5-wood from 229 yards to 12 feet \u2013 and how it drew no applause from the crowd.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe didn\u2019t even know if it was on the green because no one clapped,\u201d Clark said. \u201cIt was a little surprising. We\u2019d make some big putts\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Clark then stopped himself before adding, \u201cI\u2019m saying this more as a challenge that hopefully tomorrow and the weekend the fans are out there really rooting us on, and regardless of what happens, we have the momentum.\u201d<\/p>\n

U.S. captain Brandt Snedeker was later asked about Clark\u2019s comments. The American skipper agreed and provided a possible explanation.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a weird day,\u201d Snedeker said. \u201cI really felt like the fans were out there and they were there, but the first tee was loud, and then it just kind of dissipated as the day went on. I don\u2019t know why. I think part of it was because the golf course was set up pretty difficult. There were some really tough pins out there, so it was really hard to get a lot of birdies going and get guys going crazy, I guess. And there\u2019s some tough viewing out there on some of the holes where people really couldn\u2019t see what was going on.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know what Chicago is built of. I know what kind of fans we\u2019ve got here. They\u2019ll come out tomorrow. We\u2019ve just got to go out and play good golf.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"Presidents<\/p>\n

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Day 2 at Medinah features five foursomes matches. Here are the starting times, how to watch and when each team will pick its players for Friday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cubs and White Sox both officially clinched playoff berths on Thursday, the former doing so in an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":859740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-859739","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\/859739","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=859739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/859740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}