{"id":882658,"date":"2026-10-15T02:04:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T02:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/882658\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T02:04:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T02:04:14","slug":"record-breaking-rounds-power-vulcan-golfers-to-second-place-finish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/882658\/","title":{"rendered":"Record-breaking rounds power Vulcan golfers to second place finish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading time:   &lt; 1 minute<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Jaylen-Wan-Kailee-McKee-.jpg\" alt=\"two women with golf clubs\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-242130\"  \/>From left,            Jaylen Wan and Kailee McKee<\/p>\n<p>University of Hawai\u02bbi at Hilo\u2019s Jaylen Wan and Kailee McKee both set the new single-round program record by carding rounds of three-under to help the Vulcans team finish runner-up at the Westmont Invitational at Sandpiper Golf Club in Goleta, California.<\/p>\n<p>Wan led the Vulcans with a runner-up individual finish at -3 on rounds of 70 and 73, with nine total birdies over the two rounds.Her 36-hole score of -3 also set a new program record\u2014breaking the previous mark of even par.<\/p>\n<p>McKee climbed 11 spots from 14th to finish tied for No. 3 (+1) on rounds of 77 (+4) and 70 (-3). McKee made four birdies in round 2 to also set the program\u2019s new single-round score of three-under.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/news\/2026\/10\/13\/wgolf-wan-mckee.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HiloAthletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reading time: &lt; 1 minuteFrom left, Jaylen Wan and Kailee McKee University of Hawai\u02bbi at Hilo\u2019s Jaylen Wan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":882659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[370623,4818,4,450,370612,370613,370610,427,370620,370618,370614,370625,451,370622,370601,370602,370604,370606,370621,370605,370607,370611,3,370609,370619,452,453,370600,370615,370599,370603,370616,370608,370624,370617],"class_list":["post-882658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-2026-womens-golf","tag-athletics","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-college-womens-golf","tag-collegiate-golf","tag-goleta-california","tag-golf","tag-golf-course-records","tag-golf-program-record","tag-hawaii-college-athletics","tag-hawaii-sports-add-hawaiian-diacritics-to-keywordsstandardize-womens-golf-capitalization","tag-headlines","tag-hilo-golf-team","tag-hilo-vulcans","tag-hilo-womens-golf","tag-jaylen-wan","tag-jaylen-wan-golf","tag-jaylen-wan-runner-up","tag-kailee-mckee","tag-kailee-mckee-golf","tag-ncaa-womens-golf","tag-news","tag-sandpiper-golf-club","tag-single-round-golf-record","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-uh-hilo","tag-uh-hilo-athletics","tag-university-of-hawaii-at-hilo","tag-university-of-hawaii-hilo-womens-golf","tag-vulcans-golf","tag-westmont-invitational","tag-westmont-university","tag-womens-golf-tournament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882658","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=882658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/882659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}