{"id":85566,"date":"2025-11-23T20:55:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T00:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/ballester-conquers-the-saudi-international-first-professional-title-3\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T20:55:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T00:55:35","slug":"ballester-conquers-the-saudi-international-first-professional-title-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/golf\/ballester-conquers-the-saudi-international-first-professional-title-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballester Conquers the Saudi International: First Professional Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Josele Ballester Crowned Champion at the Saudi International<\/h2>\n<p>Spanish golfer Josele Ballester secured his first professional victory by winning the Saudi International with an impressive final round of 6 under par, 65 strokes.<\/p>\n<p>The event, which marked the closing of the International Series on the Asian Tour, saw Ballester finish with a total of 22 under par, 262 strokes, surpassing Caleb Surratt by three strokes, who closed with 69.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Vincent from Zimbabwe and Yosuke Asaji from Japan secured the two available spots in LIV Golf for next year, by leading the ranking.<\/p>\n<p>Vincent, who participated in LIV Golf in 2024, was relegated after finishing in 50th position in the ranking.<\/p>\n<p>Ballester, former U.S. amateur champion and college golfer at Arizona State, joined the Fireballs team in LIV Golf last summer, achieving two top 10 finishes in six appearances.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Kim, who returned to golf in LIV last year after a 12-year hiatus, tied for fifth place, eight strokes behind the leader, marking his best result since his return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josele Ballester Crowned Champion at the Saudi International Spanish golfer Josele Ballester secured his first professional victory by winning the Saudi International with an impressive final round of 6 under par, 65 strokes. The event, which marked the closing of the International Series on the Asian Tour, saw Ballester finish with a total of 22 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[163,10554,627,10555],"class_list":{"0":"post-85566","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-josele-ballester","10":"tag-liv-golf","11":"tag-saudi-international"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}