{"id":779245,"date":"2026-07-23T04:54:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T04:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/779245\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T04:54:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T04:54:38","slug":"representing-the-wichita-area-cooper-schultz-qualifies-for-first-pga-tour-event-in-minnesota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/779245\/","title":{"rendered":"Representing the Wichita area, Cooper Schultz qualifies for first PGA Tour event in Minnesota"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) &#8211; An Andover Central High School graduate who went on to a strong collegiate golf career at Kansas State is now set to take on the highest level in professional golf. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Cooper Schultz, who recently competed close to home in the Wichita Open, will make his PGA Tour debut this weekend. In a qualifier on Monday in Minnesota, the 24-year-old posted a score of seven under par, good enough to earn a spot in the upcoming 3M Open at TPC Twin Cities in the Minneapolis suburb of Blaine, Minn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Schultz is set to tee off in his first PGA tournament at 8:46 a.m. Thursday. Wichitans Sam Stevens and Adam Hadwin are also in this weekend\u2019s field in Minnesota. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 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; An Andover Central High School graduate who went on to a strong collegiate golf&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":779246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[61362,109410,331996,331995,427,331997,153314,331998,153313,26761,34592,3332,99,26798,41413,151006],"class_list":["post-779245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-amateur","tag-andover","tag-andover-central-high-school-golf","tag-cooper-schultz","tag-golf","tag-k-state-golf","tag-kake","tag-kansas-proud","tag-ksn","tag-kwch","tag-pga","tag-pga-tour","tag-sports","tag-tpc-twin-cities","tag-wichita","tag-wichita-eagle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779245","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=779245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}