{"id":461145,"date":"2026-02-08T05:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T05:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/461145\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T05:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T05:36:07","slug":"elvis-smylie-wins-liv-golf-riyadh-under-lights-in-his-tour-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/461145\/","title":{"rendered":"Elvis Smylie wins LIV Golf Riyadh under lights in his tour debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) \u2014 Elvis Smylie won LIV Golf Riyadh on Saturday night in his tour debut, closing with a bogey-free 8-under 64 under the lights to hold off Jon Rahm by a stroke.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 23-year-old Australian also led Ripper GC to the team title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s a dream come true,\u201d said Smylie, who officially joined the team last month. \u201cI really didn\u2019t know what to expect this week. Playing at night is obviously a whole different ballgame out here. I wanted to come out here and make a statement. I wanted to prove that I\u2019m one of the best out here, and I feel like I\u2019ve done that. It\u2019s only up from here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Smylie finished at 24 under.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Rahm closed with a bogey-free 63.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Peter Uihlein was third at 21 under after a 67.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP golf: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/golf<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) \u2014 Elvis Smylie won LIV Golf Riyadh on Saturday night in his tour debut,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-461145","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\/461145","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=461145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}