{"id":400642,"date":"2026-08-07T22:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T22:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/400642\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T22:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T22:38:09","slug":"12-year-old-houston-golfer-alaina-villarreal-makes-her-debut-on-stephen-currys-underrated-golf-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/400642\/","title":{"rendered":"12-year-old Houston golfer Alaina Villarreal makes her debut on Stephen Curry\u2019s UNDERRATED Golf Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">HOUSTON \u2013 At just 12 years old, Houston golfer Alaina Villarreal is already making a name for herself on the junior golf scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">A homeschooled student through Acellus Academy, Villarreal has racked up an impressive list of accomplishments, including a Texas State Championship title, a spot as a Drive, Chip &amp; Putt National Finalist and the 2025 Drive Championship title. She was also a finalist at the 2025 Notah Begay III Junior Golf National Championship and competed in the TGR Jr. Invitational.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">This year, Villarreal joined <a href=\"https:\/\/www.underrated.golf\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.underrated.golf\/\">Stephen Curry\u2019s UNDERRATED Golf Tour<\/a>, which works to expand equity, access and opportunity in golf while connecting talented young athletes with college coaches and industry leaders. She is currently the youngest player on the Tour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">For Villarreal, golf started as a way to spend time with her dad, Jason. What began with pink golf balls and a fun introduction to the game quickly grew into a passion \u2014 and now, a dream of playing college golf at a Division I school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Villarreal recently joined Houston Life to talk about her golf journey, her experience on the UNDERRATED Tour and what she hopes to accomplish next.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Watch the full conversation above.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Follow her journey at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alaina-villarreal.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.alaina-villarreal.com\/\">alaina-villarreal.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON \u2013 At just 12 years old, Houston golfer Alaina Villarreal is already making a name for herself&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,1735,57,154],"class_list":["post-400642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-life","tag-houston-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400642","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=400642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}