{"id":775858,"date":"2026-07-02T16:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T16:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/775858\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T16:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T16:50:11","slug":"canadas-aphrodite-deng-commits-to-stanford-womens-golf-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/775858\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Aphrodite Deng commits to Stanford women&#8217;s golf team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Canadian golfer has made a big-time NCAA commitment.<\/p>\n<p>Aphrodite Deng has verbally agreed to join the Stanford women&#8217;s team in 2028, she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DaQs_M5lUtN\/?hl=en&amp;img_index=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced on Instagram<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Deng, the 16-year-old Calgary native, has enjoyed a decorated junior career, including becoming the first Canadian to win the U.S. Girls&#8217; Junior Championship last year.<\/p>\n<p>She also won two other junior titles last year and tied for 20th at the CPKC Women&#8217;s Open, cementing her status as a rising star.<\/p>\n<p>Stanford has won four national women&#8217;s golf championships since 2015, including two in the last three years, while producing LPGAers such as Rose Zhang, Albane Valenzuela, Megha Ganne and Andrea Lee.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Canadian golfer has made a big-time NCAA commitment. Aphrodite Deng has verbally agreed to join the Stanford&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-775858","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\/775858","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=775858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}