{"id":112611,"date":"2025-08-02T09:29:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T09:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/112611\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T09:29:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T09:29:12","slug":"wichitas-lunden-esterline-tops-tiger-woods-son-wins-boys-division-at-49th-junior-pga-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/112611\/","title":{"rendered":"Wichita\u2019s Lunden Esterline tops Tiger Woods\u2019 son, wins boys division at 49th Junior PGA Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) &#8211; Wichita Collegiate\u2019s Lunden Esterline, an Andover, Kansas, native, captured the boys division title at the 49th Junior PGA Championship with a four-round total of 19 under par, winning by six strokes. He sealed the victory with a final-round even-par 71, topping a field that included Charlie Woods, son of golf legend Tiger Woods. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Esterline\u2019s dominant performance included a remarkable course-record-tying 62 in round two and earned him a spot on the 2025 U.S. Junior Ryder Cup Team. The win marks another milestone in a decorated junior career that already includes state and AJGA titles. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The 16-year-old, upcoming junior at Wichita Collegiate School, has committed to Auburn University and is expected to join the Tigers\u2019 golf program in 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KWCH. All rights reserved. To report a correction or typo, please email news@kwch.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) &#8211; Wichita Collegiate\u2019s Lunden Esterline, an Andover, Kansas, native, captured the boys division title at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":112612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[71188,70107,1430,70823,70108,19785,71189,1445,4720,62,10130,67,132,68,71187,71190],"class_list":{"0":"post-112611","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-12news","9":"tag-charlie-woods","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-golfer","12":"tag-junior-pga-championship","13":"tag-kansas","14":"tag-lunden-esterline","15":"tag-pga","16":"tag-pga-championship","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-tiger-woods","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-wichita","23":"tag-wichita-collegiate"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114958471634699138","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}