{"id":736409,"date":"2026-06-14T17:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T17:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/736409\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T17:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T17:28:09","slug":"watson-finishes-solo-second-at-the-international-series-morocco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/736409\/","title":{"rendered":"Watson finishes solo second at The International Series Morocco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-article-body text-fg-low \">RABAT, Morocco \u2013 RangeGoats GC Captain Bubba Watson continued his scorching hot play on Sunday at the International Series Morocco presented by Visit Morocco, but the two-time Masters champion came up one shot shy of winner Taichi Kho.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-article-body text-fg-low \">Watson shot a 3-under 70 at Royal Golf Dar Es Salam to finish at 18 under for the week while Kho carded a 5-under 68, good enough to claim the trophy at 19 under. Watson, 47, had rounds of 69-66-69 to take a one-shot lead into the final round. On Sunday, he had five birdies and two bogeys.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-article-body text-fg-low \">RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.internationalseries.com\/en\/schedule\/morocco-2026#leaderboard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"text-fg-medium underline\">Full leaderboard<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-article-body text-fg-low \">Morocco was host to a bevy of LIV Golf players. Those who finished in the top 10 were Watson, Ripper GC\u2019s Elvis Smylie (T5) and Scott Vincent (T10), who has been sharp recently while filling in for Phil Mickelson on HyFlyers GC. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text-article-body text-fg-low \">The event was the third leg of the elevated events on the Asian Tour and was being played in Morocco for the fourth time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-article-body text-fg-low \">Check back for more from the event, including player interviews and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RABAT, Morocco \u2013 RangeGoats GC Captain Bubba Watson continued his scorching hot play on Sunday at the International&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":736410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-736409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736409","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=736409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/736410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}