{"id":449830,"date":"2026-02-05T04:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T04:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/449830\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T04:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T04:25:07","slug":"4-collegiate-golfers-from-oregon-oregon-state-set-to-compete-at-augusta-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/449830\/","title":{"rendered":"4 collegiate golfers from Oregon, Oregon State set to compete at Augusta National"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"TU5XC3X7ZNCLXDNA4WYEXUN5QM\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/ducks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/ducks\/\">Oregon<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/beavers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/beavers\/\">Oregon State<\/a> women\u2019s golf are well-represented at one of the top amateur tournaments in the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"AHQOYY3YPFD65LGNUDK3AR43KQ\">Three Ducks and one Beaver are set to participate in this year\u2019s Augusta National Women\u2019s Amateur. The list includes Kiara Romero, Karen Tsuru and Prim Prachnakorn from Oregon and Kyra Ly from Oregon State.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"VPCGXHJPRFF3NOTRJMCOEC4ZZ4\">In the seventh edition of the tournament \u2014 set for April 1-4 in Augusta, Georgia \u2014 the field of participants includes the Top 20 players in the current World Amateur Golf rankings and 48 of the Top 50.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"RD4OJWRALRCSTAQKNJXUKJ6UW4\">Romero, a junior, is the No. 1 women\u2019s amateur in the world and the only two-time, first-team All-American in Oregon women\u2019s golf history. She previously competed in the event at Augusta last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/ducks\/2025\/04\/oregons-kiara-romero-ties-for-7th-at-augusta-national-womens-amateur.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/ducks\/2025\/04\/oregons-kiara-romero-ties-for-7th-at-augusta-national-womens-amateur.html\">tying for seventh<\/a> in 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"VPCGXHJPRFF3NOTRJMCOEC4ZZ4\">Prachnakorn is ranked No. 30 and Tsuru No. 40 in the World Amateur Golf Rankings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"Y7H3FP5EGBDSZMGJYVMSJORW4I\">The first and second rounds of the Augusta National Women\u2019s Amateur tournament will air live on the Golf Channel from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. ET on April 1 and 2. After a practice round for all participants on April 3, NBC Sports will broadcast three hours (12-3 p.m. ET) of the tournament\u2019s final round on April 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oregon and Oregon State women\u2019s golf are well-represented at one of the top amateur tournaments in the country.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[186400,77448,42605,77449,77450,77451,427,99,48871],"class_list":["post-449830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-championship-division-1","tag-d1","tag-di","tag-div-1","tag-div-i","tag-division-i","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-womens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449830","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=449830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}