{"id":702420,"date":"2026-05-29T15:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T15:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/702420\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T15:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T15:16:10","slug":"acharya-defends-title-at-nepal-international-amateur-golf-championship-utsa-athletics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/702420\/","title":{"rendered":"Acharya defends title at Nepal International Amateur Golf Championship &#8211; UTSA Athletics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KATHMANDU, Nepal \u2014\u00a0UTSA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/goutsa.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/player\/sam-acharya\" title=\"Sam Acharya\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Acharya<\/a> successfully defended his individual title at the 12th Nepal International Amateur Golf Championship at Gokarna Golf Club.<\/p>\n<p>Playing in his hometown, the rising sophomore fired a 9-under-par 207 to repeat as champion, finishing four shots ahead of Vivaan Ubhayakar.<\/p>\n<p>After opening the 54-hole tournament with a 3-under 69, Acharya registered a 6-under 66 in round two, setting him up with a five-stroke advantage entering the final day. He then turned in an even-par scorecard that featured four birdies on Friday to secure his second straight crown at the event.<\/p>\n<p>One year ago, he posted a 20-under 196 (66-60-70) to cruise to a 10-shot win in this event at the same course.<\/p>\n<p>Acharya recently wrapped up his freshman campaign with the Roadrunners that saw him play in five tournaments, posting a 74.63 stroke average over 16 rounds. He fired a 10-under-par 206 (66-70-70) to place fourth at the Golden Nugget Invitational and he tied for 11th after registering a 222 (79-68-75) at the Military City Collegiate to help UTSA claim the team title.<\/p>\n<p>-UTSA-<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KATHMANDU, Nepal \u2014\u00a0UTSA\u2019s Sam Acharya successfully defended his individual title at the 12th Nepal International Amateur Golf Championship&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":702421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-702420","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\/702420","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=702420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}