{"id":301636,"date":"2025-10-14T03:50:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T03:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/301636\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T03:50:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T03:50:11","slug":"collegiate-national-champion-and-aspiring-pro-golfer-alison-takamiya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/301636\/","title":{"rendered":"Collegiate national champion and aspiring pro golfer Alison Takamiya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) &#8211; Alison Takamiya is a rising star in the world of women\u2019s golf.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">After graduating from Punahou in 2020, she went on to Oregon\u2019s George Fox University where she won a national championship and earned multiple All-American honors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">She recently announced her intent to turn pro and is making a serious bid to join the LPGA Tour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI honestly don\u2019t really consider myself super athletic. I never wanted to play any sport that involved running or a ball coming at me,\u201d she told HNN\u2019s Mark Carpenter. \u201cBut with golf, it\u2019s such a different sport where you don\u2019t have to be the hugest, most muscular person out there. If you do want something hard enough, you have the power to get it. I think that\u2019s what motivates me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaiinewsnow.com\/podcasts\/long-game\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.hawaiinewsnow.com\/podcasts\/long-game\/\">Click for more \u2018The Long Game\u2019 episodes.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 Hawaii News Now. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) &#8211; Alison Takamiya is a rising star in the world of women\u2019s golf. After graduating from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":301637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[153276,153278,1430,40558,153277,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-301636","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-alison-takamiya","9":"tag-george-fox-university","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-lpga","12":"tag-punahou","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115370487239959639","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301636","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=301636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}