{"id":301650,"date":"2025-11-22T15:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T15:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/301650\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T15:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T15:00:07","slug":"liv-golf-pro-known-for-red-faced-masters-moment-clinches-first-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/301650\/","title":{"rendered":"LIV Golf pro known for red-faced Masters moment clinches first win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi International leaderboard<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">Pos<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">Player<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">To par<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">1<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">Ballester J.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">-22<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">2<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">Surratt C.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">-19<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">3<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">Burmester D.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">-17<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">4<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">Bland R.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">-16<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">T5<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">Grace B.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">-14<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">T5<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">Hatton T.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">-14<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">T5<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">Herbert L.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">-14<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">T5<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">Kim A.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">-14<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">T5<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">Kokrak J.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">-14<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.golflive24.com\/asian-tour\/saudi-international\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">View full leaderboard<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Josele Ballester clinched his first professional victory at the International Series&#8217; finale in Saudi Arabia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old Spaniard, who joined LIV Golf halfway through the 2025 campaign, shot a final round 65 to win the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfmagic.com\/tour\/liv-golf\/saudi-international-prize-money-2025-how-much-they-are-playing\" data-entity-type=\"node\" data-entity-uuid=\"6566ceb1-3d00-4800-b244-5e684940e22e\" data-entity-substitution=\"canonical\" title=\"Saudi International prize money 2025: How much they are playing for\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PIF Saudi International<\/a> at Riyadh Golf Club by three shots from America&#8217;s Caleb Surratt.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>South Africa&#8217;s Dean Burmester finished in solo third on 17-under, whilst Richard Bland, Tyrrell Hatton, Anthony Kim, Lucas Herbert and Adrian Meronk also finished in the top-10.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For Kim, the former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfmagic.com\/tours\/pga-tour\" data-entity-type=\"taxonomy_term\" data-entity-uuid=\"2a113a33-7dfe-494e-bc65-4465fd7ab6fb\" data-entity-substitution=\"canonical\" title=\"PGA Tour\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PGA Tour<\/a> star turned golf&#8217;s yeti, it represents his best finish in a professional golf event since he returned to the sport after a 12-year absence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Zimbabwe&#8217;s Scott Vincent and Japan&#8217;s Yosuke Asaji <a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfmagic.com\/tour\/liv-golf\/meet-two-players-who-just-secured-fully-exempt-liv-golf-status-2026\" data-entity-type=\"node\" data-entity-uuid=\"96c38f29-8f49-4d66-a1fc-df584614a5a0\" data-entity-substitution=\"canonical\" title=\"Meet the two players who just secured fully exempt LIV Golf status for 2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">secured<\/a> LIV Golf exemptions for the 2026 season via the International Series&#8217; order of merit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ballester joined <a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfmagic.com\/tours\/liv-golf\" data-entity-type=\"taxonomy_term\" data-entity-uuid=\"7bb0cb07-4e0e-4e74-8c0f-83b7f44df0ee\" data-entity-substitution=\"canonical\" title=\"LIV Golf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LIV Golf<\/a> in June following a stellar amateur career that saw him win the Spanish Amateur, European Amateur and US Amateur.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The latter achievement saw him qualify for the 2025 Masters in which he made the headlines for all the wrong reasons.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ballester missed the cut in April at Augusta National but rubbed tournament officials the wrong way after he relieved himself in Rae&#8217;s Creek near the iconic 13th hole.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He initially joked about what he did, insisting to reporters he would &#8220;do it again&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>But he later <a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfmagic.com\/tour\/us-masters\/masters-rookie-commits-big-no-no-augusta-national-if-i-had-do-it-again-i-would-do\" data-entity-type=\"node\" data-entity-uuid=\"4b8f1585-a253-493b-ba17-dfab6d7fff62\" data-entity-substitution=\"canonical\" title=\"Report: How Augusta National dealt with Masters rookie urinating into Rae&#039;s Creek\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">apologised<\/a> to Augusta National.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More follows.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saudi International leaderboard Pos Player To par 1 Ballester J. -22 2 Surratt C. -19 3 Burmester D.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-301650","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}