{"id":7645,"date":"2018-08-28T16:53:08","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T16:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2018\/08\/28\/kyra-cox-builds-stellar-golf-resume-after-vowing-to-help-autistic-sister\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:15:19","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:15:19","slug":"kyra-cox-builds-stellar-golf-resume-after-vowing-to-help-autistic-sister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/kyra-cox-builds-stellar-golf-resume-after-vowing-to-help-autistic-sister\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyra Cox builds stellar golf resume after vowing to help autistic sister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Freshman Women&#8217;s Golf team member Kyra Cox is featured in a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/golfweek.com\/2018\/01\/14\/inspired-to-play-kyra-cox-building-stellar-golf-resume-after-vowing-to-help-autistic-sister\/\">Golfweek<\/a><\/strong> article. In it, she describes how her autistic sister, Kaylee, first inspired her to take up the game and now continues to motivate her to pursue excellence.<\/p>\n<p>The South Salem, New York athlete\u00a0qualified for the 2016 USGA Women&#8217;s Amateur after becoming the youngest player ever to win the New York State Women&#8217;s Amateur, at age 15. She also qualified for the Drive, Chip, and Putt national competition at Augusta National, where she finished third. As Cox embarks on her career at Furman, she&#8217;ll bring the perspective derived from her relationship with Kaylee.\u00a0&#8220;It\u2019s a lot easier for me to be the top female golfer in the world than it is for Kaylee to do everyday things,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freshman Women&#8217;s Golf team member Kyra Cox is featured in a Golfweek article. In it, she describes how her autistic sister, Kaylee, first inspired her to take up the game [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":7646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7645","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\/7645","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=7645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}