{"id":22236,"date":"2019-05-31T09:56:33","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T09:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/19-year-old-american-achieves-the-best-amateur-result-in-u-s-open-history\/"},"modified":"2019-05-31T09:56:33","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T09:56:33","slug":"19-year-old-american-achieves-the-best-amateur-result-in-u-s-open-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/19-year-old-american-achieves-the-best-amateur-result-in-u-s-open-history\/","title":{"rendered":"19-year-old American achieves the best amateur result in U.S. Open history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-9605\" src=\"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.holaincompany.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/images_Actual2019_Captura-de-pantalla-2019-05-31-a-las-11.52.00.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"755\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/images_Actual2019_Captura-de-pantalla-2019-05-31-a-las-11.52.00.png 755w, https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/images_Actual2019_Captura-de-pantalla-2019-05-31-a-las-11.52.00-300x185.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 755px) 100vw, 755px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With Azahara Mu\u00f1oz and Carlota Ciganda in the top 10 (fifth and seventh, three and four strokes behind the leader, Mamiko Higa) after the first round, the US Women\u2019s Open is having an unexpected protagonist: the American amateur Gina Kim. With her round of -5 she is in second place after the first 18 holes of the tournament, which is being played at the Country Club of Charleston, South Carolina. Kim, 19, carded the lowest round ever recorded by an amateur at the U.S. Women\u2019s Open with a 66 yesterday.<br \/>Her round included six birdies, three bogeys and an eagle. She finished with an eagle-birdie, but nearly made it an eagle-over when her 3-wood shot from 217 yards nearly went in the hole.<br \/>Kim, a native of Chapell Hill, North Carolina, said, \u201cThe feeling is wonderful; this is something I dreamed of when I was a little girl.\u201d<br \/>The amateur player, who attends Duke University, helped her Blue Devils team win the NCAA Women\u2019s Championship just a couple of weeks ago.   <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Azahara Mu\u00f1oz and Carlota Ciganda in the top 10 (fifth and seventh, three and four strokes behind the leader, Mamiko Higa) after the first round, the US Women\u2019s Open is having an unexpected protagonist: the American amateur Gina Kim. With her round of -5 she is in second place after the first 18 holes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22236","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\/22236","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=22236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}