{"id":631831,"date":"2026-06-10T20:53:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T20:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/631831\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T20:53:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T20:53:11","slug":"young-guernsey-golfer-living-out-his-dream-on-usa-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/631831\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Guernsey golfer living out his dream on USA scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A young Guernsey golfer says &#8220;finding the balance in life between school work and golf took a bit of time&#8221; after getting a scholarship to an American school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Conor McKenna, 19, was one of the youngest winners of the Channel Island Championships when he lifted the trophy in 2024. He earnt a place at St Thomas Aquinas College in New York.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said studying 3,405 miles away from home was &#8220;completely different to what I had imagined, I thought I was going over there for just golf but learnt pretty quickly that studies over there are still taken really seriously.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His average day consists of six hours of academic classes and more than three hours of golf practice alongside gym and homework.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A young Guernsey golfer says &#8220;finding the balance in life between school work and golf took a bit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-631831","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\/631831","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=631831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}