{"id":656630,"date":"2026-06-25T00:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T00:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/656630\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T00:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T00:53:09","slug":"okeefe-enjoys-win-to-progress-at-womens-amateur-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/656630\/","title":{"rendered":"O\u2019Keefe enjoys win to progress at Women\u2019s Amateur Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe desire, the want to finish one better (than last year) is definitely there. I&#8217;ve played a ridiculous amount of golf in the last two to three months. I&#8217;m just trying to make sure that physically I&#8217;m ready to go. I know I&#8217;m capable of it, there&#8217;s no question there. It&#8217;s just making sure I do all the right things and give myself an opportunity at the end of the week.\u201d<br \/>\nThe 21-year-old American is the highest-ranked player left in the 123rd staging of the Championship after Sampedro, who beat her 2&amp;1 in last year\u2019s Final at Nairn, lost out in another thrilling match. Sampedro was also taken to an extra hole, but she pulled her tee shot, could not recover and lost out to a par by Bourgault, who holed out from five feet.<br \/>\nCanada\u2019s Bourgault, who came through a play-off to qualify the night before, later described it as the best victory of her career.\u00a0<br \/>\nShe said, \u201cThe win is definitely up there. I would say that this is probably one of my biggest accomplishments so far. I&#8217;ve never played such a big tournament in match play format before. Yesterday I was going into a play-off to get into match play so the whole thing has been a battle.<br \/>\n\u201cIt was a late finish last night and a quick turnaround this morning. But I just put that aside and tried to start new, start fresh and just take it one shot at a time. It definitely gives me a lot of confidence and I&#8217;ll just keep doing what I&#8217;ve been doing. I&#8217;m really grateful to be here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe desire, the want to finish one better (than last year) is definitely there. I&#8217;ve played a ridiculous&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-656630","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\/656630","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=656630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}