{"id":56930,"date":"2022-04-27T13:29:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T20:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/california-teen-takes-top-honors-in-kent-to-earn-u-s-womens-open-spot\/"},"modified":"2022-04-27T13:29:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T20:29:00","slug":"california-teen-takes-top-honors-in-kent-to-earn-u-s-womens-open-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/california-teen-takes-top-honors-in-kent-to-earn-u-s-womens-open-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"California teen takes top honors in Kent to earn U.S. Women&#8217;s Open spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kylee Choi of Murrieta, California, shot rounds of 74-71 to earn medalist honors over the 40-player field who competed in U.S. Women&rsquo;s Open qualifying at Meridian Valley Country Club in Kent. <\/p>\n<p>Choi, just 15 years old, is currently ranked 25th in the American Junior Golf Association rankings. She claimed the lone qualifying spot on April 19 in the 36-hole qualifier, according to wagolf.org.<\/p>\n<p>Choi advances to the 77th U.S. Women&rsquo;s Open Championship, which is June 2-5 at Pine Needles Lodge &#038; Golf Club in Southern Pines, North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>Lauren Kim, of Canada, is the first alternate from this qualifier, while Jacqueline Bendrick of Mercer Island claimed the second alternate.<\/p>\n<p>Washington Golf is the local representative of the United States Golf Association (USGA) and conducted this qualifier for the 2022 U.S. Women&rsquo;s Open Championship.<\/p>\n<p>To be eligible, golfers must have a Handicap Index of 2.4 or less, or be a professional.<\/p>\n<p>A record total of 1,874 entries, including 12 champions and 24 of the top 25 players in the world, have been accepted by the USGA for the 77th U.S. Women&rsquo;s Open Championship Presented by ProMedica. T<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kylee Choi won 36-hole qualifier at Meridian Valley Country Club <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":56931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56930"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56930"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=56930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}