{"id":32107,"date":"2024-05-16T14:25:47","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T18:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=32107"},"modified":"2024-05-16T15:44:22","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T19:44:22","slug":"preston-cole-16-debuts-at-pga-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/preston-cole-16-debuts-at-pga-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Preston Cole &#8217;16 debuts at PGA Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University alumnus and golf standout Preston Cole &#8217;16 is set to tee off this week at one of golf&#8217;s four major championships, the PGA Championship at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky. To get there, Cole, lead assistant professional at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, tied for 8th at the PGA Professional Championship in Texas. In a video posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/946326322\">Vimeo<\/a>, Cole spoke with PGA Tour member Johnson Wagner about what it means to play in his first major. Charlotte NBC station <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcnc.com\/article\/sports\/golf\/pga\/quail-hollow-clubs-assistant-pro-set-to-play-in-pga-championship\/275-3d299221-b20f-4072-9023-70762b9b2689\">WCNC<\/a> also aired a story about Cole. On the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pga.com\/story\/meet-the-pga-of-america-members-playing-in-the-pga-championship\">PGA<\/a> website, Cole is profiled along with the 20 other players representing the PGA of America.<\/p>\n<p>At Furman, Cole earned All-Southern Conference and All-American Scholar honors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cole, a 2016 Furman graduate and golf standout, makes his debut at the PGA Championship at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky. In two video clips, he talks about his journey with an NBC affiliate and with professional golfer Johnson Wagner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":32136,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,24,6,2800,2799],"tags":[2098,2795,2796,2797,2798],"class_list":["post-32107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-athletics","category-in-the-news","category-pga","category-wcnc-nbc-charlotte","tag-mens-golf","tag-pga","tag-pga-championship","tag-quail-hollow-club","tag-valhalla-golf-club"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32107","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=32107"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32132,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32107\/revisions\/32132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}