{"id":385328,"date":"2026-01-01T19:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T19:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/385328\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T19:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T19:45:09","slug":"henry-closes-with-65-takes-thunderbolt-title-in-playoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/385328\/","title":{"rendered":"Henry closes with 65, takes Thunderbolt title in playoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Middle Tennessee State redshirt sophomore, and son of three-time PGA Tour winner J.J. Henry delivered a brilliant closing 6-under 65 on Sunday to win the 4th annual Thunderbolt in nearby Surprise, Arizona. Henry\u2019s rounds of 73-66-65 totaled 9-under 204, matching Oregon State senior Rylan Johnson (74-63-67) and setting up a playoff.<\/p>\n<p>Henry began the final round two shots off the lead, but played nearly flawless golf to erase the deficit and force extra holes against the 36-hole co-leader. On the first playoff hole\u2014the par-4 18th\u2014Henry made par, and it was enough to clinch the title and secure his first collegiate victory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust being able to come out here and represent our fallen American heroes\u2026 it really puts things into perspective,\u201d Henry said. \u201cWe\u2019re blessed just to be able to play golf\u2026 to come out with the trophy and what that means, it\u2019s all a bonus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Henry, a Fort Worth, Texas native, set the tone early by holing a wedge shot on the opening hole\u2014then kept building momentum until he had the trophy in hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Middle Tennessee State redshirt sophomore, and son of three-time PGA Tour winner J.J. Henry delivered a brilliant&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[16669,16668,206912,64,63,755,85,206910,206913,206911,206909],"class_list":["post-385328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-amateur-golf-news","tag-amateurgolf-com","tag-arizona-golf-tournaments","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-sterling-grove-golf-country-club","tag-surprise-arizona-golf","tag-surprise-golf-tournaments","tag-the-thunderbolt-invitational"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385328","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=385328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}