{"id":730416,"date":"2026-06-11T21:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T21:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/730416\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T21:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T21:03:09","slug":"louisianas-potgieter-arkansas-states-schmidt-earn-all-american-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/730416\/","title":{"rendered":"Louisiana&#8217;s Potgieter, Arkansas State&#8217;s Schmidt Earn All-American Honors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                &#13;<br \/>\n                    Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"274\" data-start=\"129\">New Orleans \u2013 Louisiana\u2019s Malan Potgieter and Arkansas State\u2019s Thomas Schmidt earned All-America honors at the conclusion of the 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"579\" data-start=\"276\">Potgieter was named to the third team on both the PING and Golfweek All-America lists by the Golf Coaches Association of America and the magazine, respectively. He became Louisiana\u2019s first-ever Golfweek All-America honoree and the first to earn a spot on one of the PING\/GCAA top three teams since 1992.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"835\" data-start=\"581\">The four-time All-Sun Belt selection competed in the 2026 NCAA National Championships, where he finished 32nd individually. Potgieter concluded his senior season with a 69.56 stroke average and a career average of 71.29, both of which are school records.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"1246\" data-start=\"837\">Schmidt became the first PING All-America selection in Arkansas State golf history, earning honorable mention honors. The senior also competed in the 2026 NCAA National Championship and finished 16th, the second-highest individual finish by a Sun Belt men\u2019s golfer. The three-time Sun Belt Conference Golfer of the Year concluded his senior season with a program-record single-season scoring average of 69.38.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; New Orleans \u2013 Louisiana\u2019s Malan Potgieter and Arkansas State\u2019s Thomas Schmidt earned All-America honors&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":730417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-730416","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\/730416","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=730416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}