{"id":349937,"date":"2025-12-16T23:56:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T23:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/349937\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T23:56:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T23:56:10","slug":"bertagnole-earns-pga-tour-event-exemption-in-the-bahamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/349937\/","title":{"rendered":"Bertagnole Earns PGA TOUR Event Exemption In The Bahamas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of North Carolina&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/goheels.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/carson-bertagnole\/27350\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"27350\" target=\"_blank\">Carson Bertagnole<\/a> won a 2026 PGA TOUR exemption by finishing second in the White Sands Bahamas Invitational on Tuesday at the Ocean Club Golf Course on Paradise Island, The Bahamas.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Tar Heel freshman from Pinehurst, N.C., parred each of the first two playoff holes to defeat three other college players to secure second place, which earned him an exemption into either the PGA TOUR&#8217;s Puerto Rico Classic or ONEflight Myrtle Beach Classic.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nGeorgia&#8217;s Grayson Wood shot 71-69-68 for 8-under 208 to win the tournament by one stroke. Bertagnole, who won his first college title in the fall at Notre Dame, shot 69-71-69 for 7-under 209.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nBertagnole tied Arizona&#8217;s Filip Jakubcik, San Diego State&#8217;s Tyler Kowack and Arizona State&#8217;s Boston Bracken to set up a 4-for-1 playoff.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nBertagnole and Kowack made pars on the first playoff hole to advance, then Bertagnole made a par on the second extra hole to secure the runner-up finish and claim the PGA TOUR exemption.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The University of North Carolina&#8217;s Carson Bertagnole won a 2026 PGA TOUR exemption by finishing second in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-349937","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\/349937","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=349937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}