{"id":853275,"date":"2026-08-13T02:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T02:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/853275\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T02:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T02:36:11","slug":"tar-heels-win-rd-of-64-matches-at-merion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/853275\/","title":{"rendered":"Tar Heels Win Rd Of 64 Matches At Merion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North Carolina&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/goheels.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/carson-bertagnole\/28390\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"28390\" target=\"_blank\">Carson Bertagnole<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/goheels.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/niall-sheils-donegan\/28396\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"28396\" target=\"_blank\">Niall Sheils Donegan<\/a> won their round of 64 matches Wednesday in the 2026 United States Amateur at Merion Golf Club in Ardmore, Pa.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nBertagnole won the 15th and 16th holes to defeat Tyson Shelley of BYU 3&amp;2, while Sheils Donegan won four of the first five holes and went on to eliminate Wheaton Ennis of Texas A&amp;M 4&amp;3.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nBertagnole will play Illinois&#8217; Max Herendeen at 8:05 a.m. on Thursday in the round of 32. Sheils Donegan, who advanced to the semifinals in 2025, plays Florida&#8217;s Jack Turner at 8:55 a.m.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe winners advance to the round of 16 Thursday afternoon.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"North Carolina&#8217;s Carson Bertagnole and Niall Sheils Donegan won their round of 64 matches Wednesday in the 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":853276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-853275","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\/853275","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=853275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/853276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}