{"id":89230,"date":"2025-11-27T05:20:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T09:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/ballester-conquers-the-saudi-international-first-professional-title-8\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T05:20:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T09:20:38","slug":"ballester-conquers-the-saudi-international-first-professional-title-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/golf\/ballester-conquers-the-saudi-international-first-professional-title-8\/","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 won the Saudi International, achieving his first professional victory. Ballester closed the tournament with an impressive round of 6 under par, culminating a remarkable performance.<\/p>\n<p>This event, which marked the end of the International Series on the Asian Tour, saw Ballesteros demonstrate his skill on the course, securing a victory with a three-stroke lead over his competitors.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Vincent, from Zimbabwe, and Yosuke Asaji, from Japan, finished at the top of the ranking, securing their place in LIV Golf for next year.<\/p>\n<p>Ballester, former U.S. amateur champion and who played college golf at Arizona State, joined the Fireballs team in LIV Golf last summer, achieving two top 10 finishes in six appearances.<\/p>\n<p>The Spaniard began the final round one stroke off the lead, finishing with a cumulative score of 22 under par, with a three-stroke lead over Caleb Surratt (69).<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Kim (70) tied for fifth place, eight strokes behind, marking his best result since his return to golf in LIV last year, after a 12-year absence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josele Ballester Crowned Champion at the Saudi International Spanish golfer Josele Ballester won the Saudi International, achieving his first professional victory. Ballester closed the tournament with an impressive round of 6 under par, culminating a remarkable performance. This event, which marked the end of the International Series on the Asian Tour, saw Ballesteros demonstrate his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[10553,10554,627,10555],"class_list":{"0":"post-89230","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-anthony-kim","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\/89230","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=89230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}