{"id":39914,"date":"2017-05-30T09:48:35","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T15:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=39914"},"modified":"2017-05-30T09:48:35","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T15:48:35","slug":"ole-miss-golfs-braden-thornberry-brings-home-national-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/ole-miss-golfs-braden-thornberry-brings-home-national-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Ole Miss Golf&#8217;s Braden Thornberry Brings Home National Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Braden Thornberry<\/strong>, <strong>Ole Miss<\/strong> Sophomore, shot 1-under in the final round at the <strong>NCAA Arnold Palmer Individual National Championship<\/strong> at <strong>Rich Farms Harvest Golf Club<\/strong> on Monday, May 29, netting him the Individual National Championship. His four round total put him at 11-under with a four shot lead over <strong>Arkansas<\/strong>\u2019 <strong>Mason Overstreet<\/strong> in second place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;It means a lot to be the champion,&#8221; Thornberry said. &#8220;It was a really special week. Really just from the start, got off to a great start, 6-under through the first 12 of the week, that got me started off on the right foot. The lead kept kind of creeping up. I tried to just stay in position until today and play a good round, and I was right there.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Thornberry\u2019s national titles is the first ever at Ole Miss. Previous best for the school was <strong>Darren Cole<\/strong>\u2019s 1985 fifth-place finish.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;I think it validates everything that we&#8217;ve said since <strong>Coach [Kyle] Ellis<\/strong> and I got the job a few years back,&#8221; said Ole Miss head coach\u00a0<strong>Chris Malloy<\/strong>. &#8220;All I heard was you couldn&#8217;t win a national championship at Ole Miss, and we&#8217;re going to go to this other school because we want to win national championships and we want to get on the Tour. He&#8217;s proven you can do that here.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14544\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"The Local Voice Ligature\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Braden Thornberry, Ole Miss Sophomore, shot 1-under in the final round at the NCAA Arnold Palmer Individual National<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":253,"featured_media":39917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[10509,2291,10505,10504,1794,10507,10508,1094,642,10506,4063,7067,4,10510,3,753],"class_list":["post-39914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-athletics","tag-arnold-palmer","tag-athletics","tag-braden-thornberry","tag-darren-cole","tag-golf","tag-individual-chris-malloy","tag-kyle-ellis","tag-local","tag-ms","tag-nation-championship","tag-ncaa","tag-ole-miss","tag-oxford","tag-sport","tag-the-local-voice","tag-tlv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2017-5-29-Braden-Thornberry.jpg?fit=600%2C382&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/253"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}