{"id":466088,"date":"2026-02-08T08:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T08:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/466088\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T08:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T08:35:09","slug":"elvis-smylie-claims-victory-on-liv-golf-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/466088\/","title":{"rendered":"Elvis Smylie claims victory on LIV Golf debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elvis Smylie has made a dazzling start to his life as a LIV Golf player, winning the season\u2019s $US30 million ($42 million) opening event under floodlights in Saudi Arabia on his tour debut with a flawless display that left even mighty Jon Rahm in the shade.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old Australian left-hander recorded a wonderful bogey-free final round, an eight-under 64, to win the title by one shot from Spanish great Rahm in Riyadh on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"_137dbe642694dac0-source\">AAP and Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elvis Smylie has made a dazzling start to his life as a LIV Golf player, winning the season\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-466088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466088","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=466088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}