{"id":867169,"date":"2026-10-01T14:58:28","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T14:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/867169\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T14:58:28","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T14:58:28","slug":"teenager-stays-in-medal-contention-in-womens-golf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/867169\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenager stays in medal contention in women&#8217;s golf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/c584092a-f8f1-47e8-ac61-052706aa5336.jpg\" style=\"height: auto; aspect-ratio: 740 \/ 495; width: 100%\" alt=\"South Korean player Yang Yun-seo watches her shot during the women's golf tournament of the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games at Kasugai Country Club East Course in Kasugai, Japan, Thursday. Courtesy of Korea Golf Association\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>South Korean player Yang Yun-seo watches her shot during the women&#8217;s golf tournament of the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games at Kasugai Country Club East Course in Kasugai, Japan, Thursday. Courtesy of Korea Golf Association<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Teen prospect Yang Yun-seo kept herself in contention for an individual medal at the midway point of the women&#8217;s golf tournament at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Yang, 18, shot a five-under 65 in the second round with seven birdies and two bogeys at Kasugai Country Club East Course in Kasugai, just northeast of the main host city of Nagoya.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">At seven-under through 36 holes, Yang is tied for third with the six-time LPGA Tour winner from China, Yin Ruoning. They are six strokes behind the leader, Shannon Xuan Yin Tan of Singapore.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Two other South Koreans took a step back, with Kim Gyu-been and Park Seo-jin both shooting 73s. Kim is at 1-over for the tournament, with Park at 4-over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">For the team standings, where the two best scores for each team are added each round, South Korea went two-under Thursday to sit tied for fourth at six-under overall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">China is leading the team competition at 12-under, one shot better than Singapore and five ahead of India.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The golf tournament will conclude Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Korean player Yang Yun-seo watches her shot during the women&#8217;s golf tournament of the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":867170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-867169","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\/867169","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=867169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/867170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}