{"id":148703,"date":"2025-08-15T20:21:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T20:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/148703\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T20:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T20:21:09","slug":"minnesota-golfer-goes-from-no-4292-in-the-world-to-the-u-s-amateur-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/148703\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota golfer goes from No. 4,292 in the world to the U.S. Amateur quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rt-Text\">\u201cBeing the underdog, I feel like there\u2019s way less pressure on me to perform well,\u201d he said after winning two matches Thursday over more well-established opponents to reach the quarterfinals. \u201cI feel like I can go out there and play pretty free. That\u2019s what we did for most of the holes out there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">Abdo, who said he was not really recruited out of high school and wasn\u2019t even in Edina\u2019s state tournament lineup until his junior year, had a strong freshman season at Gustavus in 2024-25.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">\u201cThis is my first time trying to qualify for the U.S. Am. I never felt like I was ready,\u201d he said Thursday. \u201cComing out of high school, I was never really recruited at all. That kind of adds into this underdog story where no one really believes I\u2019m capable of playing good golf like this. I know I am, and I\u2019ve had that confidence even when I was in high school.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">We\u2019ll find out Friday if his remarkable run continues. The semifinals are slated for Saturday with the championship match on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cBeing the underdog, I feel like there\u2019s way less pressure on me to perform well,\u201d he said after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":148704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[1430,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-148703","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115034645085085244","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148703","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=148703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}