{"id":18732,"date":"2025-07-23T20:53:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T20:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/18732\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T20:53:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T20:53:04","slug":"amelia-wan-nottinghamshire-teenager-eyes-new-golfing-heights-with-us-college-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/18732\/","title":{"rendered":"Amelia Wan: Nottinghamshire teenager eyes new golfing heights with US college move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nottinghamshire teenager Amelia Wan hopes to take her golf game to new heights with a move to college in the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 18-year-old, whose run of recent successes includes winning the Welsh Women&#8217;s Stroke Play Championship by seven shots in May, will relocate her booming young career to Baylor University in Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On a cold, grey and wet summer&#8217;s day playing a round at Coxmoor Golf Club in Sutton-in-Ashfield, Wan explained why she sees the move as &#8220;exciting&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s good weather and a chance to play more golf,&#8221; Wan smiled in between practice holes with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/iplayer\/episodes\/b007tj48\/east-midlands-today\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC East Midlands Today.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But the move to Texas from the Nottinghamshire market town of Newark is more than just about sunshine, with a place at Baylor University exposing her to the highest level of college golf in America.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I hope it pushes me, playing with better players from across the world,&#8221; Wan said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This year I&#8217;ve got a better understanding of my swing, so I think going out there I will be able to play and know what I&#8217;m looking out for if I drop into any bad habits with my swing.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nottinghamshire teenager Amelia Wan hopes to take her golf game to new heights with a move to college&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-18732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}