{"id":19024,"date":"2025-07-27T05:11:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T09:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/coleman-georgias-young-prospect-conquers-the-us-junior-amateur\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T05:11:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T09:11:22","slug":"coleman-georgias-young-prospect-conquers-the-us-junior-amateur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/golf\/coleman-georgias-young-prospect-conquers-the-us-junior-amateur\/","title":{"rendered":"Coleman, Georgia&#8217;s young prospect, conquers the US Junior Amateur"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Hamilton Coleman Wins U.S. Junior Amateur<\/h2>\n\nIn an exciting final played on Saturday, Hamilton Coleman won the U.S. Junior Amateur, defeating Minh Nguyen of Vietnam.\n\nThe 17-year-old golfer from Augusta, Georgia, secured the victory with a 15-foot birdie on the 35th hole, sealing a 2-and-1 win.\n\nThis triumph earns Coleman a place in next year&#8217;s U.S. Open, which will be held at Shinnecock Hills.\n\nColeman, who is set to play college golf at Georgia, maintained control of the 36-hole match at Trinity Forest from the start.\n\nHowever, the tenacity of Nguyen, who will play for Oregon State, kept the competition close until the end.\n\nColeman got a 5-hole lead in the first 18, but Nguyen reacted by winning three of the next four holes.\n\nWith a 3-hole lead at the start of the afternoon, Coleman extended his lead to 4 holes with 11 to play, before Nguyen closed the gap again.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I knew I couldn&#8217;t relax. I had to keep playing quality shots. The situation got a little tense, but I never lost faith. I told my caddie I was nervous, but not scared. I was proud of that.<\/p><cite>Hamilton Coleman<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nWith only four holes to play, Coleman maintained a one-hole lead. Nguyen had two birdie opportunities from 12 feet to tie, but missed both.\n\nFinally, Coleman secured the victory with a birdie on the 17th hole, from 99 yards.\n\nFor Nguyen, second place guarantees him exemption from qualifying for next month&#8217;s U.S. Amateur at the Olympic Club.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hamilton Coleman Wins U.S. Junior Amateur In an exciting final played on Saturday, Hamilton Coleman won the U.S. Junior Amateur, defeating Minh Nguyen of Vietnam. The 17-year-old golfer from Augusta, Georgia, secured the victory with a 15-foot birdie on the 35th hole, sealing a 2-and-1 win. This triumph earns Coleman a place in next year&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[6413,163,6414,6415],"class_list":{"0":"post-19024","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-coleman","9":"tag-golf","10":"tag-nguyen","11":"tag-u-s-junior-amateur"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}