{"id":75060,"date":"2026-06-18T21:54:48","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T02:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/18\/wyndham-clark-roars-clear-at-us-open-before-darkness-brings-first-round-to-a-halt\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T21:54:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T02:54:48","slug":"wyndham-clark-roars-clear-at-us-open-before-darkness-brings-first-round-to-a-halt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/18\/wyndham-clark-roars-clear-at-us-open-before-darkness-brings-first-round-to-a-halt\/","title":{"rendered":"Wyndham Clark roars clear at US Open before darkness brings first round to a halt"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>2023 champion sits at six under through 16 holes<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Play suspended at 8.25pm after rain-soaked day<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Clubhouse leader Stevens among group at two under<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For much of a Thursday that offered a harsh reminder of Shinnecock Hills\u2019 capacity for chaos, the US Open leaderboard was as congested as County Road 39 at the start of a Hamptons weekend, a gridlocked mass of contenders separated by little more than one or two shots. Then Wyndham Clark found another gear, roaring clear of the traffic to open a shocking four-stroke lead before darkness brought the first round to a halt.<\/p>\n<p>Clark, the 2023 champion, was six under par through 16 holes when the horn blew and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/live\/2026\/jun\/18\/us-open-2026-golf-updates-on-day-one-live\">play was suspended at 8.25pm<\/a>, holding a commanding advantage over a chasing group at two under that included the clubhouse leader Sam Stevens. Six other players were also at two under, four of whom had holes remaining. Nine more \u2013 including Masters champion Rory McIlroy \u2013 sat at one-under.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/jun\/19\/wyndham-clark-us-open-day-one-play-suspended\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2023 champion sits at six under through 16 holes Play suspended at 8.25pm after rain-soaked day Clubhouse leader Stevens among group at two under For much of a Thursday that offered a harsh reminder of Shinnecock Hills\u2019 capacity for chaos, the US Open leaderboard was as congested as County Road 39 at the start of &#8230; <a title=\"Wyndham Clark roars clear at US Open before darkness brings first round to a halt\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/18\/wyndham-clark-roars-clear-at-us-open-before-darkness-brings-first-round-to-a-halt\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Wyndham Clark roars clear at US Open before darkness brings first round to a halt\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}