{"id":7243,"date":"2014-06-11T22:02:26","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T02:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=7243"},"modified":"2014-06-11T22:02:26","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T02:02:26","slug":"u-s-open-starts-with-15-golfers-who-played-in-the-acc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=7243","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Open starts with 15 golfers who played in the ACC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/dukegolfbag.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/dukegolfbag.jpg\" alt=\"dukegolfbag\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/dukegolfbag.jpg 300w, https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/dukegolfbag-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/dukegolfbag-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/dukegolfbag-115x115.jpg 115w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Fifteen golfers from ACC schools will tee off Thursday at the 114th U.S. Open Championship at Pinehurst Resort and Country Club in Pinehurst, North Carolina. Eight different league programs will be represented at the championship.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the last five U.S. Open champions played in the ACC, with Wake Forest\u2019s Webb Simpson winning in 2012 and Clemson\u2019s Lucas Glover in 2009. Georgia Tech\u2019s Stewart Cink, The Open Championship winner in 2009, also has a major victory on his resume.<\/p>\n<p>Florida State\u2019s Jonas Blixt (T-2) and Georgia Tech\u2019s Matt Kuchar (T-5) both were in contention on Sunday at the Masters in April and finished in the top five.<\/p>\n<p>Seven players from current ACC schools have won the championship in the past. The group has combined for 11 U.S. Open titles and includes Clemson\u2019s Glover, Florida State\u2019s Hubert Green, Georgia Tech\u2019s Bobby Jones, North Carolina\u2019s Raymond Floyd, and Wake Forest\u2019s Arnold Palmer, Curtis Strange, and Simpson.<\/p>\n<p>Golfers from ACC Schools at the 2014 U.S. Open<\/p>\n<p>Lucas Glover, Clemson<br \/>\nJoe Ogilvie, Duke<br \/>\nKevin Streelman, Duke<br \/>\nRyan Blaum, Duke<br \/>\nDaniel Berger, Florida State<br \/>\nJonas Blixt, Florida State<br \/>\nBrooks Koepka, Florida State<br \/>\nRoberto Castro, Georgia Tech<br \/>\nMatt Kuchar, Georgia Tech<br \/>\nStewart Cink, Georgia Tech<br \/>\nGarth Mulroy, NC State<br \/>\nMark Wilson, North Carolina<br \/>\nBrendon de Jonge, Virginia Tech<br \/>\nBill Haas, Wake Forest<br \/>\nWebb Simpson, Wake Forest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifteen golfers from ACC schools will tee off Thursday at the 114th U.S. Open Championship at Pinehurst Resort and Country Club in Pinehurst, North Carolina&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,79,81,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-duke-blue-devils","category-featured-stories","category-n-c-state-wolfpack","category-north-carolina-tar-heels","wpcat-82-id","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-81-id","wpcat-80-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7243","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7245,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7243\/revisions\/7245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}