{"id":880386,"date":"2026-10-13T03:06:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T03:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/880386\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T03:06:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T03:06:14","slug":"austin-lemieux-son-of-nhl-legend-mario-qualifies-for-first-pga-tour-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/880386\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Lemieux, son of NHL legend Mario, qualifies for first PGA Tour event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Lemieux is into the big leagues \u2014 and a familiar number helped him get there.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old son of NHL Hall of Famer Mario Lemieux <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/acaseofthegolf1\/status\/2109732300564914552\" rel=\"nofollow\">shot 66 to book a spot<\/a> in his first PGA Tour event through Monday qualifying at the Bermuda Championship.<\/p>\n<p>The PGA Tour fall series event begins next Thursday, but the qualifier was held in advance at a course in Florida to allow players to arrange travel plans.<\/p>\n<p>A prolific player on amateur circuits, Lemieux won a Pennsylvania mid-amateur championship in September and captured a minor-league title earlier this month in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>The Pittsburgh native, six-foot-four, previously played college hockey for Arizona State University.<\/p>\n<p>Should Lemieux upset the field and win in Bermuda \u2014 as Canadian Corey Conners once did as a Monday qualifier in 2019 at the Valero Texas Open \u2014\u00a0he would earn a two-season exemption on the PGA Tour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Austin Lemieux is into the big leagues \u2014 and a familiar number helped him get there. The 30-year-old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":880387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-880386","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\/880386","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=880386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/880387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}