{"id":202597,"date":"2025-10-10T12:08:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T12:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/202597\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T12:08:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T12:08:08","slug":"smith-listed-no-7-in-initial-lpga-collegiate-advancement-pathway-lcap-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/202597\/","title":{"rendered":"Smith Listed No. 7 in Initial LPGA Collegiate Advancement Pathway (LCAP) Ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DURHAM, N.C. \u2013 Duke women&#8217;s golf graduate student <a href=\"https:\/\/goduke.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/andie-smith\/22838\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"22838\" target=\"_blank\">Andie Smith<\/a> has been listed No. 7 in the initial LPGA Collegiate Advancement Pathway (LCAP) ranking system.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAnnounced in July, the newly developed program creates a direct route for top collegiate golfers to enter the LPGA&#8217;s system of professional tours. Epson Tour status will be awarded to the top 10 players on the Final LCAP Ranking powered by WAGR.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nSmith, a native of Hobe Sound, Florida, has earned 858.83 points through Oct. 8.\u00a0 Stanford&#8217;s Megha Ganne leads the way with 1286.84 points.\u00a0 In two events this season, Smith has carded a tied for sixth and tied for 23rd ledger.\u00a0 She is coming off helping Duke tie for first as a team at the Windy City Collegiate Classic with rounds of 73, 70 and 69 for a 4-under, 212.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe ranking will follow a two-year cycle, concluding with the NCAA Division I Women&#8217;s Golf Individual Championship and will include results from collegiate and non-collegiate events recognized by WAGR. The ranking will update weekly each Wednesday through the 2026 NCAA Division I Women&#8217;s Golf Individual Championship.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nTo maintain eligibility for the pathway and its benefits, a player must maintain amateur status through the publication of the\u00a0Final LCAP Ranking powered by WAGR. If a player turns professional, she will be removed from the\u00a0LCAP Ranking powered by WAGR.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nDuke will next compete in the Ruth&#8217;s Chris Tar Heel Invitational Oct. 17-19 in Chapel Hill.\u00a0 It will be contested at the Finley Golf Course.\u00a0 Both Smith and the Blue Devils are the reigning champions of the event, both individually and team.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nTo stay up to date with Blue Devils women&#8217;s golf, follow the team on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook by searching &#8220;DukeWGOLF&#8221;.\u00a0 <br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n#GoDuke<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DURHAM, N.C. \u2013 Duke women&#8217;s golf graduate student Andie Smith has been listed No. 7 in the initial&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-202597","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}