{"id":27928,"date":"2025-11-22T14:28:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T19:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/11\/22\/josele-ballester-wins-his-first-professional-victory-at-the-saudi-international\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T14:28:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T19:28:30","slug":"josele-ballester-wins-his-first-professional-victory-at-the-saudi-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/11\/22\/josele-ballester-wins-his-first-professional-victory-at-the-saudi-international\/","title":{"rendered":"Josele Ballester wins his first professional victory at the Saudi International"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>RIYADH, Saudi Arabia &#8212; Former U.S. Amateur champion Josele Ballester shot a 6-under 65 on Saturday for a three-stroke victory and his first professional win at the Saudi International.<\/p>\n<p>It was the final match of the Asian Tour&#8217;s International Series. Zimbabwe&#8217;s Scott Vincent and Japan&#8217;s Haruki Asachi finished at the top of the rankings and secured two spots in next year&#8217;s LIV Golf.<\/p>\n<p>Vincent was part of LIV Golf in 2024, but finished 50th in the standings and was relegated from the Saudi-funded league.<\/p>\n<p>Ballester, who played college golf at Arizona State University, joined LIV Golf&#8217;s Fireballs team last summer. He recorded two top-10 finishes in six starts.<\/p>\n<p>The Spaniard started the final round with a one-shot lead and finished with 22-under 262, three spots ahead of Caleb Surratt (69). Anthony Kim (70) tied for fifth place with an eight-stroke difference, achieving his best result since returning to golf after a 12-year hiatus at LIV last year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIYADH, Saudi Arabia &#8212; Former U.S. Amateur champion Josele Ballester shot a 6-under 65 on Saturday for a three-stroke victory and his first professional win at the Saudi International. It was the final match of the Asian Tour&#8217;s International Series. Zimbabwe&#8217;s Scott Vincent and Japan&#8217;s Haruki Asachi finished at the top of the rankings and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[17],"class_list":{"0":"post-27928","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}