{"id":295703,"date":"2025-11-20T15:36:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T15:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/295703\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T15:36:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T15:36:13","slug":"wang-earns-ben-hogan-award-golfer-of-the-month-nod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/295703\/","title":{"rendered":"Wang Earns Ben Hogan Award Golfer of the Month Nod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FORT WORTH, Texas \u2013\u00a0University of Memphis men&#8217;s golf athlete\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gotigersgo.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/yixiang-wang\/12248\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12248\" target=\"_blank\">Yixiang Wang<\/a>\u00a0has been named as a finalist for the Ben Hogan Award October Golfer of the Month honor, the foundation announced Thursday.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Ben Hogan Award Golfer of the Month will be chosen by a selection committee comprised of foundation members from the Ben Hogan Award and Friends of Golf as well from as the award&#8217;s selected partners. In addition, a Fan Vote on social media through Thursday at 11 p.m. (CT) will give the top vote getter on each of the @benhoganaward social media channels (Facebook, Instagram and Twitter) a bonus committee vote. The winner will be announced on Thursday.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nWang is joined by\u00a0Bryan Kim (Duke) and Nate Stevens (Notre Dame) on the list.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nWang, who has dominated the courses during the fall season, claimed the individual champion crown at the Steelwood Collegiate where he finished the tournament seven under par. The junior out of Dailan, China helped Memphis win the Quail Valley Collegiate as a team where he tied for career best three-round score (203). He also shot a career-low (63) in the opening round of the tournament in route to a share of second place in individual play.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nWang also collected a top five finish at the Cullan Brown Invitational (T4th) after finishing four under par (138) in the shortened tournament.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Ben Hogan Award presented by Baird annually recognizes the top collegiate golfer considering all college, amateur and professional events played over the 12-month period beginning with the 2025 NCAA Championships and running through the 2026 NCAA Regionals.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nHow to follow the Tigers:\u00a0For complete information on\u00a0Memphis Tigers Golf, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gotigersgo.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.GoTigersGo.com<\/a>\u00a0and follow the team&#8217;s social media channels on<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MemphisMGolf\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u00a0Twitter,<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/memphismgolf\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MemphisTigersGolf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook.<\/a><br \/>\n\u00a0<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT WORTH, Texas \u2013\u00a0University of Memphis men&#8217;s golf athlete\u00a0Yixiang Wang\u00a0has been named as a finalist for the Ben&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-295703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295703","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=295703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}