{"id":4592,"date":"2016-06-13T20:49:06","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T00:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/06\/13\/remembering-oakmont-in-1983\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T21:08:13","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T02:08:13","slug":"remembering-oakmont-in-1983","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/remembering-oakmont-in-1983\/","title":{"rendered":"A Father and Son at Oakmont"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before he became an eight-time winner on the PGA Tour and earned the reputation\u00a0as one of the best putters in the history of golf, Brad Faxon \u201983 was an All-American golfer at Furman.\u00a0 Just days before the 2016 U.S. Open begins at Oakmont Country Club, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.titleist.com\/the-faxons\">Titleist.com<\/a><\/strong> recalled the 1983 U.S. Open that was played at Oakmont, where Faxon played as an amateur with his father, Brad Sr., on the bag.\u00a0 As it turned out, Brad, Jr.,\u00a0made the cut and finished as the low amateur on the way to a memorable Father\u2019s Day, even if Brad, Sr., seemed more interested in watching Arnold Palmer than his son.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before he became an eight-time winner on the PGA Tour and earned the reputation\u00a0as one of the best putters in the history of golf, Brad Faxon \u201983 was an All-American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":4593,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4592","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\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}