{"id":1927027,"date":"2026-08-07T16:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T20:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1927027"},"modified":"2026-08-07T17:45:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T21:45:31","slug":"tar-heel-golf-legend-passes-at-95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1927027","title":{"rendered":"Tar Heel Golf Legend Passes At 95"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bill Williamson with 2018 men's golf team\" src=\"https:\/\/admin.goheels.com\/common\/controls\/image_handler.aspx?thumb_prefix=rp_primary&#038;image_path=\/images\/2026\/8\/7\/Bill_Williamson_with_team.jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bill Williamson, who finished second in the 1953 NCAA Men&#8217;s Golf Championship and led the Tar Heels to their best-ever second-place finish in the team competition that same year, died August 1 at the age of 95.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goheels.com\/news\/2026\/8\/7\/mens-golf-tar-heel-golf-legend-passes-at-95\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Williamson, who finished second in the 1953 NCAA Men&#8217;s Golf Championship and led the Tar Heels to their best-ever second-place finish in the team competition&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1927042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1927027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-north-carolina-tar-heels","wpcat-80-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1927027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1927029,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927027\/revisions\/1927029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1927042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1927027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1927027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1927027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}