{"id":101127,"date":"2025-12-31T12:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T12:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/101127\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T12:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T12:32:08","slug":"eddie-gu-holds-off-zhang-to-win-orlando-international-amateur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/101127\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Gu holds off Zhang to win Orlando International Amateur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The victory continues a strong run for Gu, who also won the Orlando International Amateur Juniors (Boys 16\u201318) title last week after surviving a four-man playoff.<br \/>Barry Zhang, a Harvard sophomore from China, finished runner-up at 8-under 207 (69-67-71).<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"572\" data-end=\"761\">Gu began the final round tied with Zhang but separated himself with a controlled, mistake-free closing stretch. Zhang made a few costly errors early and spent the rest of the round chasing.<\/p>\n<p>Gu has now played 22 ranked events in 2025, collecting three wins and eight other top-10 finishes. Two of those victories came in major junior starts: the AJGA AM Technical Solutions Junior at Southpointe in July, where he set a tournament record at 9-under, and the Florida Junior Tour Labor Day Major in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The victory continues a strong run for Gu, who also won the Orlando International Amateur Juniors (Boys 16\u201318)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[19545,19544,40960,53011,53010,53009,139,141,53008,140],"class_list":{"0":"post-101127","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-amateur-golf-news","9":"tag-amateurgolf-com","10":"tag-florida-golf-tournaments","11":"tag-howey-in-the-hills-florida-golf","12":"tag-howey-in-the-hills-golf-tournaments","13":"tag-mission-inn-resort-el-campeon-course","14":"tag-orlando","15":"tag-orlando-headlines","16":"tag-orlando-international-amateur-championship","17":"tag-orlando-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}