{"id":36867,"date":"2026-07-15T05:18:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T05:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/36867\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T05:18:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T05:18:15","slug":"santa-margarita-girls-golf-dominates-national-event-in-north-carolina-orange-county-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/36867\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa Margarita girls golf dominates national event in North Carolina \u2013 Orange County Register"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/checkout.ocregister.com\/subscriptionpanel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe now<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Santa Margarita claimed its second title in three years at the Girls High School Golf National Invitational on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The Eagles combined over three days to card a 20-under-par score of 836 and dominate the field at Pinehurst Resort in North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>Santa Margarita,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/2025\/11\/19\/santa-margarita-girls-golf-dominates-for-third-cif-state-championship\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> the reigning CIF State champion<\/a>, was the only team to break par in the event, which featured state champions from across the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The Eagles outdistanced runner-up North Carolina by 26 strokes.<\/p>\n<p>Dartmouth commit Angelina Tao paced Santa Margarita by tying for third with a 7-under-par score of 207. The recent high school graduate shot a 68 at Pinehurst No. 1 on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Emily Song (6-under, tied for fifth), Nora Qu (5-under, tied for seventh) and Donina Zhou (2-under, tied for 11th) each finished under-par to place high on the leaderboard for the Eagles.<\/p>\n<p>In the fall, Zhou earned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/2025\/12\/29\/all-county-girls-golf-donina-zhou-is-the-oc-player-of-the-year\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Orange County player of the year<\/a>. The senior-to-be is committed to Princeton.<\/p>\n<p>Song, a senior-to-be who is committed to Yale, shot a 66 at Pinehurst No. 5 on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Santa Margarita coach Jill Hegna said her squad arrived at the event July 8 to practice.<\/p>\n<p>The Eagles won the invitational in 2024 in Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber.\u00a0Subscribe now Santa Margarita claimed its second title&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[182,14996,6345,44,152,153,14995,154,3843,14997,56,14998],"class_list":["post-36867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-california","tag-coto-de-caza","tag-dan-albano","tag-golf","tag-high-school-all-sports","tag-high-school-golf","tag-high-school-news","tag-high-school-sports","tag-orange-county","tag-rancho-santa-margarita","tag-sports","tag-trabuco-canyon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}