{"id":21019,"date":"2015-05-26T08:08:04","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T08:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/turns-down-10000-award-to-play-in-the-ncaas\/"},"modified":"2015-05-26T08:08:04","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T08:08:04","slug":"turns-down-10000-award-to-play-in-the-ncaas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/turns-down-10000-award-to-play-in-the-ncaas\/","title":{"rendered":"Turns down $10,000 award to play in the NCAAs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-4426\" src=\"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.holaincompany.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/brian.png\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: left;margin-right:10px\" width=\"748\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/brian.png 748w, https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/brian-300x179.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 748px) 100vw, 748px\" \/>A Boston college student has refused to collect a $10,000 prize for making a hole-in-one in order to play in the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) championships.<\/p>\n<p>Brian Butler, a junior from West Hartford, Connecticut, was trying to qualify for the Benrus Open in Rhode Island on May 18 when he holed a one-putt on the 18th hole.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ten thousand dollars is obviously a great deal of money, but being a part of the BC golf team is something I love, and I wasn&#8217;t willing to give up,&#8221; Butler said.<\/p>\n<p>The youngster advanced to the next qualifying round, to be played on June 18, and should he then manage to make another hole-in-one in the final round he would win a million dollars as prize money.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With the small chance of getting another hole-in-one, I&#8217;m sure my decision would be different,&#8221; Butler said. Then I&#8217;d really miss out on a chance to be chosen for the NCAA college championships. <\/p>\n<p>The Benrus Open is a par 3 tournament at The Preserve course in Boulder Hills, Wyoming. The competition brings together professional and amateur players. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Boston college student has refused to collect a $10,000 prize for making a hole-in-one in order to play in the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) championships. Brian Butler, a junior from West Hartford, Connecticut, was trying to qualify for the Benrus Open in Rhode Island on May 18 when he holed a one-putt on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_focus_keyword":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}