{"id":719644,"date":"2026-06-06T20:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T20:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/719644\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T20:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T20:10:10","slug":"mens-golf-signs-alex-kerins-for-2026-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/719644\/","title":{"rendered":"Men\u2019s Golf Signs Alex Kerins for 2026-27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON \u2014 Rice men&#8217;s golf coach <a href=\"https:\/\/riceowls.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/coaches\/justin-emil\/3129\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"3129\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Emil<\/a> has announced the signing of Alex Kerins (Kildare, Ireland) to a grant-in-aid for the 2026-27 season.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n&#8220;Alex is a tremendous addition to our program,&#8221; said Emil. &#8220;He has proven that he can compete at a high level, and we believe his best golf is still ahead of him. We&#8217;re excited to have him join the Rice family in the fall of 2026.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nKerins who played with the Carton House Golf Club, was a Fred Daly All-Ireland finalist after averaging 71.8 strokes per round last year. He had five top five finishes, including earning medalist honors at the Wicklow Boys Open Championship, where he fired a third round seven-under 62 to set the course record at Greystones Golf Club. He earned runner-up finishes at the Irish Men&#8217;s Amateur Close Championship, where he shot a final round nine-under 64, and the Irish Junior Open. He was also a semi-finalist at the West of Ireland Open Championship. Kerins set the Irish Junior Open Tour record by firing an eight-under 64 at the IJO Elite Tour 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON \u2014 Rice men&#8217;s golf coach Justin Emil has announced the signing of Alex Kerins (Kildare, Ireland) to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":719645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-719644","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\/719644","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=719644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/719645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}