{"id":117055,"date":"2025-08-28T22:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T22:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/117055\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T22:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T22:36:08","slug":"three-mass-golfers-to-take-part-in-fm-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/117055\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Mass. golfers to take part in FM Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"WKNAV55ILNGQHGY5ZJYZR55SE4\">NORTON \u2014 Three Massachusetts natives will play in the second annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/topic\/fm-golf\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/topic\/fm-golf\/\">FM Championship<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/sports\/2024\/09\/fm-championship-lpga-tpc-boston-planning-to-expand-from-year-one.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/sports\/2024\/09\/fm-championship-lpga-tpc-boston-planning-to-expand-from-year-one.html\">TPC Boston this week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"WIJ7FZRMGRGNFCZUIFGHTZC2IQ\">Rockland\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/sports\/2024\/09\/megan-khang-shine-on-the-course-and-as-lpgas-boston-ambassador-matt-vautours.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/sports\/2024\/09\/megan-khang-shine-on-the-course-and-as-lpgas-boston-ambassador-matt-vautours.html\">Megan Khang<\/a>, Westborough\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/patriots\/2024\/09\/patriots-stars-awestruck-after-teeing-it-up-with-lpga-phenom.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/patriots\/2024\/09\/patriots-stars-awestruck-after-teeing-it-up-with-lpga-phenom.html\">Alexa Pano<\/a> and Shrewsbury\u2019s Brittany Altomare will all be teeing off on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"MEZ3NN4N25GVVAY4O3KJER4LXY\">Khang, an FM ambassador, finished 35th in last year\u2019s tournament, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/sports\/2024\/08\/one-mass-local-makes-cut-at-fm-championship-three-others-miss.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/sports\/2024\/08\/one-mass-local-makes-cut-at-fm-championship-three-others-miss.html\">while Pano missed the cut after Round 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"YXWETCQTXND6VDNH3KAMYTEOMI\">Altomare didn\u2019t compete in 2024 after giving birth to her son, Wyatt, in March. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"ZL4UY3TNLFC4HEEFT646MECPOE\">\u201cI was sad to miss the first year last year, but I\u2019m really excited to play this year and to see a bunch of family and friends and to play in front of a home crowd,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/golfweek.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/golf\/lpga\/2025\/08\/22\/lpga-brittany-altomare-pregnancy-playing-in-massachusetts\/85779783007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/golfweek.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/golf\/lpga\/2025\/08\/22\/lpga-brittany-altomare-pregnancy-playing-in-massachusetts\/85779783007\/\">she told Golf Week<\/a>. \u201cSo it should be fun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"GSMUSOQTQJBJZG5B4QC2LEVSOM\">For Khang, she\u2019s looking forward to returning to her home state, but is hopeful to have a better tournament than in 2024 when she finished 35th. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"EIW7675KXFEBTFWHXIWMXKXCGU\">\u201cI think the first season was the scariest. You never know what to expect,\u201d Khang told MassLive. \u201cI hope to do well, hope. to raise the trophy at the end of the week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"WKTDF7GP6NEDVASXIAEEKCPXMU\">The FM Championship will run from Aug. 28-31 with a purse of $4.1 million, up from $3.8 million in 2024. <\/p>\n<p>If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/user-agreement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/privacy-policy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NORTON \u2014 Three Massachusetts natives will play in the second annual FM Championship at TPC Boston this week.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-117055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}