{"id":232867,"date":"2026-04-03T03:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T03:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/232867\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T03:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T03:39:09","slug":"austin-smothermans-wild-week-includes-new-baby-and-pga-tour-ace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/232867\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Smotherman&#8217;s wild week includes new baby and PGA Tour ace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 2, 2026, 5:41 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">SAN ANTONIO, Texas \u2014 Austin Smotherman has had a week full of surprises.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Nothing will top the birth of his third child, but a hole-in-one on Thursday at TPC San Antonio, his first on the PGA Tour, was a close second.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cThis was by far the longest one I ever had, 6-iron from 211 yards, 204 front, just trying to cover the front, one hop, goes in,\u201d he said of his tee shot at the par-3 13th. \u201cSomeone on the tee box said \u2018go in\u2019 and it goes in. It was pretty sweet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Smotherman withdrew last week from the Houston Open, which timed up with his wife\u2019s due date of last Monday. Their baby still hadn\u2019t come so his wife told him to go play this week at a course that he\u2019s always liked and played twice before as well as in college. He drove from their home in Dallas on Monday to San Antonio and got a call around 9:30 p.m. that his wife had gone into labor.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Smotherman was stuck at his hotel and watchedon FaceTime with more than mild interest given that they hadn\u2019t found out the gender of their third child-to-be. Grace Elizabeth Smotherman arrived promptly at 11:54 p.m.\u00a0He&#8217;s a girl-dad for life.<\/p>\n<p>Need a news break? <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (play)|e|auto spike click:5|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/play.usatoday.com\/?itm_source=SPIKE&amp;itm_campaign=PLAYSPIKE&amp;itm_medium=ONSITE\">Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cWe were dead set on thinking it was a boy. Like late last minute our boy name was all ready, and she was unnamed for about 15 hours or so. We were going back and forth,\u201d Smotherman said. \u201cSome family names in there, so pretty cool.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">It turned out that baby Grace came so quickly he never would\u2019ve made it. \u201cGod\u2019s plan,\u201d is how Smotherman put it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cSo yeah, I&#8217;m staying here playing the rest of the week and they&#8217;re doing good at home, baby and mom are healthy, so all good,\u201d Smotherman said after signing for a 4-under 67.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"gnt_em_cp_cw_i\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/76400393007-87-778337301.jpeg\" data-gl- decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April 2, 2026, 5:41 p.m. ET SAN ANTONIO, Texas \u2014 Austin Smotherman has had a week full of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[33,132,134,133,83819,83820,17544,11076,42,50724,215,46,216,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-232867","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-austin","10":"tag-austin-headlines","11":"tag-austin-news","12":"tag-sstssportsgolfpga","13":"tag-sstsnpga-tour","14":"tag-tagfamily","15":"tag-taggolf","16":"tag-tagoverall-neutral","17":"tag-tagpga-tour","18":"tag-tagsan-antonio","19":"tag-tagsports-news","20":"tag-tx","21":"tag-typestory"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}