{"id":418180,"date":"2026-01-18T22:41:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T22:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/418180\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T22:41:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T22:41:13","slug":"elvira-wins-dubai-invitational-texas-am-athletics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/418180\/","title":{"rendered":"Elvira Wins Dubai Invitational &#8211; Texas A&#038;M Athletics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI, UAE \u2013 Former Texas A&amp;M men&#8217;s golf standout Nacho Elvira topped a star-studded field to claim victory at the Dubai Invitational Sunday.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nElvira, the only golfer to fire under 70 all four rounds, finished at 10-under 274 on the par 71, 7,059-yard Dubai Creek Resort course. He held a two-stroke lead after three runs and finished one stroke ahead of Daniel Hillier. The field included Rory McIlroy and Tommy Fleetwood, ranked No. 2 and No. 3 in the world, respectively.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nWith the win, Elvira moved into fourth place in the DP World Tour points list after six events this season.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe victory marked the third career win for Elvira on the DP World Tour. He triumphed first at the 2021 Cazoo Open in Wales and followed up with a victory at the 2024 Soudal Open in Belgium. Elvira owns 12 career top 3 finishes.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nElvira was a two-time All-America selection at Texas A&amp;M. During his senior campaign, he earned All-Big 12 and all-region on the back of eight top 20 finishes and two top 5 showings en route to a 72.29 stroke average. He capped off his Aggie career with an appearance in the prestigious Palmer Cup.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DUBAI, UAE \u2013 Former Texas A&amp;M men&#8217;s golf standout Nacho Elvira topped a star-studded field to claim victory&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-418180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}