{"id":951417,"date":"2026-11-03T19:34:15","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T19:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/951417\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T19:34:15","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T19:34:15","slug":"bransford-named-a10-womens-golf-rookie-of-the-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/951417\/","title":{"rendered":"Bransford Named A10 Women\u2019s Golf Rookie of the Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">RICHMOND, Va. \u2014 Richmond freshman <a href=\"https:\/\/richmondspiders.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/carter-bransford\/8496\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carter Bransford<\/a> has been named the Atlantic 10 Women&#8217;s Golf Rookie of the Month for October, the conference announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Bransford recorded a 74.40 scoring average across five stroke-play rounds during the month, highlighted by a runner-up finish at the Spider Invitational. She opened the event with consecutive rounds of 1-under 71 and finished at 2-over par (218), helping Richmond earn a share of the team title with Florida Atlantic. The second-place finish was the best by a Spider freshman since <a href=\"https:\/\/richmondspiders.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/hannah-lydic\/7880\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7880\" target=\"_blank\">Hannah Lydic<\/a> finished runner-up at the 2022 Nittany Lion Invitational.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During Richmond&#8217;s fall-break trip to Ireland, Bransford defeated Sophie Quinones 6&amp;5 in match play as the Spiders earned a 5-2 victory over Holy Cross at Doonbeg Golf Club.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bransford concluded the fall by tying for 30th at the Keswick Cup at 10-over par (154) following rounds of 76 and 78. She helped Richmond place fourth in the nine-team field.<\/p>\n<p>Bransford and the Spiders will return to competition Jan. 25-26 at the Sea Best Invitational in Jacksonville, Fla.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RICHMOND, Va. \u2014 Richmond freshman Carter Bransford has been named the Atlantic 10 Women&#8217;s Golf Rookie of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":951418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-951417","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\/951417","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=951417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/951418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}