{"id":135114,"date":"2023-05-05T14:38:41","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T18:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=135114"},"modified":"2025-04-16T16:38:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T20:38:26","slug":"high-ranking-mexican-golfer-luis-carrera-to-graduate-from-ucf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/high-ranking-mexican-golfer-luis-carrera-to-graduate-from-ucf\/","title":{"rendered":"High-ranking Mexican Golfer Luis Carrera Graduates from UCF"},"content":{"rendered":"

When he was just 4 years old, Luis Carrera\u2019s dad took him to a golf course near their home in Mexico City. The young Carrera was so enamored with the sport that his dad bought him a little golf club. Fast forward almost two decades and that little boy with a toy club has become not only a star on the UCF men\u2019s golf team, but one of the world\u2019s highest-ranking Mexican golfers.<\/p>\n

Carrera is also the 1,500 graduate of the Bachelor of General Studies<\/a> (BGS) program at UCF, which launched in Fall 2019. The major provides students, like Carrera, flexibility to design a degree program to suit their interests and academic and career goals.<\/p>\n

Although Carrera praises his hometown, he knew that he would need to come to the United States to pursue his golf dreams.<\/p>\n