{"id":35596,"date":"2025-07-31T19:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T19:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/35596\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T19:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T19:05:08","slug":"au-golf-programs-moving-to-west-coast-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/35596\/","title":{"rendered":"AU golf programs moving to West Coast Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW\/WAGT) &#8211; Augusta University\u2019s men\u2019s and women\u2019s golf programs are leaving the Southland Conference and joining the West Coast Conference as an affiliate. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">That will happen with the coming academic year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Moving to a conference based on the opposite coast was likely driven by a quest for better competition for AU\u2019s notable program. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The program achieved NCAA National Championships in 2010 and 2011 and returned to the NCAA Championships in 2025 after taking the Southland title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WRDW\/WAGT. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW\/WAGT) &#8211; Augusta University\u2019s men\u2019s and women\u2019s golf programs are leaving the Southland Conference and joining&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-35596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}