{"id":23501,"date":"2023-03-03T12:13:13","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T17:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=23501"},"modified":"2023-03-03T12:16:23","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T17:16:23","slug":"anna-morgan-prepares-for-the-2023-augusta-national-womens-amateur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/anna-morgan-prepares-for-the-2023-augusta-national-womens-amateur\/","title":{"rendered":"Anna Morgan prepares for the 2023 Augusta National Women\u2019s Amateur"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the second consecutive year, Furman senior and politics and international affairs major Anna Morgan of Spartanburg, South Carolina, has been invited to compete in the Augusta National Women’s Amateur, which will be held March 29-April 1, 2023. The Augusta Press<\/a> covered the news in a recent article. A subscription is required to view it.<\/p>\n

More details about the event, including TV coverage, may be found on the Furman Athletics website<\/a>. An international field of 72 women amateurs, including the top 45 eligible amateurs in the final World Amateur Golf Ranking of 2022, will compete over 54 holes of stroke play. A cut will take place after 36 holes, advancing the leading 30 players and ties to the final round at Augusta National Golf Club. In the event of a tie after 54 holes, the winner will be decided by sudden-death playoff.<\/p>\n

“It is such a great honor for Anna to be invited once again to the Augusta National,” Furman head coach Jeff Hull said in a Furman Athletics news item. “I am excited to see her compete this year, as her game is even better, and I feel she can improve on last year’s solid performance.”<\/p>\n

Learn more about Morgan’s stats on Furman Athletics.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anna Morgan ’23 is set to make her second consecutive appearance in the ANWA tournament. Morgan, of Spartanburg, South Carolina, ranks 66th in the nation. She leads Furman this season with a 72.8 stroke average over 15 rounds in the fall. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":8860,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,6,32,1923],"tags":[1291,1893],"class_list":["post-23501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs","category-the-augusta-press","tag-augusta-national-womens-amateur","tag-furman-womens-golf"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}