{"id":167668,"date":"2025-09-19T13:21:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T13:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/167668\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T13:21:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T13:21:06","slug":"aidan-thomas-wins-new-mexico-open-in-professional-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/167668\/","title":{"rendered":"Aidan Thomas wins New Mexico Open in professional debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas claimed victory and top prize in his first professional tournament.<\/p>\n<p>ELEPHANT BUTTE, N.M. \u2014 Aiden Thomas claimed victory in his first professional golf tournament \u2013 the 2025 New Mexico Open at Turtleback Mountain Golf and Resort. <\/p>\n<p>Thomas, the 2018 New Mexico state high school golf champion for St. Pius X High School, claimed $20,000 and the New Mexico Open trophy as the tournament came to an end Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>Second-place Jhared Hack bagged $12,500 \u2013 and may have also made professional golf history. Hack scored a hole-in-one on the same day and in the same hole as Devin Miertschin during the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Sullivan, AJ Crouch and Brian Stark tied for third of the 137 golfers in the tournament. Among the other golfers were PGA pros, like Notah Begay III who is from New Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s $100,000 purse was the largest purse in New Mexico Open history and ranks among the top 10 of all PGA sectional tournaments. Sponsors, including the resort, funded the purse.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thomas claimed victory and top prize in his first professional tournament. ELEPHANT BUTTE, N.M. \u2014 Aiden Thomas claimed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-167668","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\/167668","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=167668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}