{"id":592857,"date":"2026-08-14T08:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T08:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/592857\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T08:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T08:46:09","slug":"australian-golfer-jessica-bang-18-dies-after-brain-haemorrhage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/592857\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian golfer Jessica Bang, 18, dies after brain haemorrhage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jessica Bang, a promising Australian golfer, has died at the age of 18 after suffering a brain haemorrhage. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bang, who won her first professional event in just her fifth start earlier this year, was preparing for a tournament in Thailand on 1 August when she collapsed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She was rushed to a hospital in Bangkok and had emergency brain surgery. After being in intensive care for nearly two weeks, she died on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The WPGA Tour of Australasia said Bang, who turned professional at the end of 2025, was an &#8220;outstanding young talent&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The thoughts and prayers of everyone at the WPGA Tour of Australasia and the broader Australian golf community are with Jessica&#8217;s family, friends and all those who knew and loved her at this incredibly difficult time,&#8221; a statement read. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Writing on a GoFundMe page that was set up by Bang&#8217;s cousins after her collapse, family members said: &#8220;We are truly heartbroken by this news.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The funds we have raised will be given to her parents to help contribute towards her medical expenses.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bang recently qualified to start her rookie season in the WPGA, having won the Queensland Amateur in 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She shot a final-round 65 to win a regional qualifying event in February to reach the NWS Women&#8217;s Open on the Ladies European Tour, where she missed the cut. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jessica Bang, a promising Australian golfer, has died at the age of 18 after suffering a brain haemorrhage.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-592857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}