{"id":41851,"date":"2026-04-10T11:47:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T15:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=41851"},"modified":"2026-04-10T12:32:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T16:32:36","slug":"furman-softball-hosts-masters-weekend-at-the-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-softball-hosts-masters-weekend-at-the-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman Softball hosts Masters Weekend at The Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Softball and The Masters at Augusta National? Furman University&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/furmanpaladins.com\/news\/2025\/8\/28\/general-elizabeth-dunning-named-furman-assistant-director-of-marketing-and-creative-services.aspx\">Elizabeth Dunning<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/furmanpaladins.com\/\">Furman Athletics<\/a> saw it as a winning combination. On Tuesday, April 7, Furman Softball hosted the Presbyterian College Blue Hose in a split doubleheader. But the atmosphere at Pepsi Stadium had more of a green feel when Furman staged Masters Weekend at The Park. Ella Grogan &#8217;25, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/communication-studies\/\">communication studies<\/a> graduate and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/2026\/04\/08\/furman-celebrated-masters-weekend-park-tuesday-vs-presbyterian\/\">FOX Carolina Palmetto Sports<\/a> reporter, spoke with Dunning, assistant director of marketing and creative services, who said the event highlights student-athletes, Furman golf programs, its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furmangolfclub.com\/\">golf course<\/a> and more. Masters Weekend at The Park included activities for kids, Masters trivia and a putting challenge. Grogan nailed the putt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Masters Weekend, and Furman Athletics puts an Augusta National spin on a Furman Softball doubleheader with Presbyterian College. FOX Carolina&#8217;s Ella Grogan &#8217;25 speaks with Liz Dunning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":41852,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,24,2604,6,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-athletics","category-fox-carolina-sports","category-in-the-news","category-student-life"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41851","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=41851"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41854,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41851\/revisions\/41854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}