{"id":114620,"date":"2016-08-11T09:16:12","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T13:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=114620"},"modified":"2016-08-11T10:28:16","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T14:28:16","slug":"uconn-rising-senior-compete-u-s-amateur-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2016\/08\/uconn-rising-senior-compete-u-s-amateur-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn Golfer to Compete in U.S. Amateur Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"microsite__header__location\">\n<p>For the third time in four years, the UConn men&#8217;s golf team will be represented at the U.S. Amateur Championship.<\/p>\n<p>UConn rising senior <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uconnhuskies.com\/sports\/m-golf\/mtt\/eric_dietrich_862022.html\">Eric Dietrich<\/a> of Cheshire carded a blistering 8-under par 64 in the second round of the two-round U.S. Amateur qualifying tournament in July, to finish with a 9-under 135 (71-64=135), topping the 72-player field at Ellington Ridge Country Club.<\/p>\n<p>The best two scores qualify to participate in the prestigious U.S. Amateur Championship, meaning Dietrich and Clark Robinson (70-68=138), a rising senior at Marshall University who hails from South Windsor, head for Oakland Hills Country Club in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., to compete for the national title on Aug. 15-21.<\/p>\n<p>Two years ago, then-UConn rising junior <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uconnhuskies.com\/sports\/m-golf\/mtt\/zach_zaback_814629.html\">Zach Zaback<\/a> qualified for the 2014 U.S. Amateur Championship; and three years ago, then-UConn rising sophomore <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uconnhuskies.com\/sports\/m-golf\/mtt\/corey_birch_814625.html\">Corey Birch<\/a> qualified for the 2013 U.S. Amateur.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rising senior Eric Dietrich will compete for the national title at Oakland Hills Country Club in Michigan Aug. 15-21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":114652,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1712,2225],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[175],"class_list":["post-114620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","category-uconn-storrs"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-06 09:44:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114620"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115498,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114620\/revisions\/115498"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/114652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114620"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=114620"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=114620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}