{"id":432562,"date":"2026-01-25T16:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T16:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/432562\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T16:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T16:14:09","slug":"patrick-reed-cruises-to-victory-at-dubai-desert-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/432562\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Reed cruises to victory at Dubai Desert Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI, United Arab Emirates \u2014 Former Masters champion and current LIV Golf circuit member Patrick Reed eased to victory at the Dubai Desert Classic by four strokes Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Reed, who held a four-stroke lead after the third round, finished ahead of England&#8217;s Andy Sullivan.<\/p>\n<p>Julien Guerrier of France and Spain&#8217;s David Puig finished joint-third, one back of Sullivan.<\/p>\n<p>Rory McIlroy\u2019s chances of a record-extending fifth title fell well short with a joint 33rd-place finish.<\/p>\n<p>Reed, who won the 2018 Masters for his only victory in a major, earned his fifth win on the European tour. He has won one LIV event, in Dallas last year, since joining the Saudi-funded league in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DUBAI, United Arab Emirates \u2014 Former Masters champion and current LIV Golf circuit member Patrick Reed eased to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-432562","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\/432562","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=432562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}