{"id":54521,"date":"2025-08-02T08:13:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T08:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/54521\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T08:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T08:13:07","slug":"wichitas-lunden-esterline-tops-tiger-woods-son-wins-boys-division-at-49th-junior-pga-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/54521\/","title":{"rendered":"Wichita\u2019s Lunden Esterline tops Tiger Woods\u2019 son, wins boys division at 49th Junior PGA Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) &#8211; Wichita Collegiate\u2019s Lunden Esterline, an Andover, Kansas, native, captured the boys division title at the 49th Junior PGA Championship with a four-round total of 19 under par, winning by six strokes. He sealed the victory with a final-round even-par 71, topping a field that included Charlie Woods, son of golf legend Tiger Woods. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Esterline\u2019s dominant performance included a remarkable course-record-tying 62 in round two and earned him a spot on the 2025 U.S. Junior Ryder Cup Team. The win marks another milestone in a decorated junior career that already includes state and AJGA titles. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The 16-year-old, upcoming junior at Wichita Collegiate School, has committed to Auburn University and is expected to join the Tigers\u2019 golf program in 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KWCH. All rights reserved. To report a correction or typo, please email news@kwch.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) &#8211; Wichita Collegiate\u2019s Lunden Esterline, an Andover, Kansas, native, captured the boys division title at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[41414,40180,427,15634,40181,4412,41415,34592,14192,99,6897,41413,41416],"class_list":["post-54521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-12news","tag-charlie-woods","tag-golf","tag-golfer","tag-junior-pga-championship","tag-kansas","tag-lunden-esterline","tag-pga","tag-pga-championship","tag-sports","tag-tiger-woods","tag-wichita","tag-wichita-collegiate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54521","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=54521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}