{"id":85901,"date":"2025-11-24T05:18:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T09:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/ballester-conquers-the-saudi-international-first-professional-title-4\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T05:18:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T09:18:02","slug":"ballester-conquers-the-saudi-international-first-professional-title-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/golf\/ballester-conquers-the-saudi-international-first-professional-title-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballester Conquers the Saudi International: First Professional Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RIYADH, Saudi Arabia \u2013 Former U.S. amateur champion Josele Ballester claimed victory at the Saudi International, securing his first professional win.<\/p>\n<p>Ballester, who closed with an impressive round of 65 strokes (-6), secured the title with a three-stroke lead.<\/p>\n<p>This event marked the closing of the International Series on the Asian Tour.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Vincent, from Zimbabwe, and Yosuke Asaji, from Japan, topped the ranking, thus securing their participation in LIV Golf for next year.<\/p>\n<p>Vincent, who was part of LIV Golf in 2024, finished in 50th place and was relegated from the Saudi Arabian-funded league.<\/p>\n<p>Ballester, with experience in college golf at Arizona State, joined the Fireballs team in LIV Golf last summer, achieving two top-ten finishes in his six appearances.<\/p>\n<p>The Spanish golfer started the final round one stroke behind and finished with a total of 262 strokes (-22), surpassing Caleb Surratt (69) by three strokes.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Kim (70) tied for fifth place, eight strokes back, marking his best performance since his return to golf in LIV last year, after a 12-year hiatus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIYADH, Saudi Arabia \u2013 Former U.S. amateur champion Josele Ballester claimed victory at the Saudi International, securing his first professional win. Ballester, who closed with an impressive round of 65 strokes (-6), secured the title with a three-stroke lead. This event marked the closing of the International Series on the Asian Tour. Scott Vincent, from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[163,10554,627,10555],"class_list":{"0":"post-85901","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\/85901","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=85901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}