{"id":413649,"date":"2026-02-07T23:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T23:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/413649\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T23:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T23:18:07","slug":"smylie-ripper-gc-make-it-a-clean-sweep-at-roshn-group-liv-golf-riyadh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/413649\/","title":{"rendered":"Smylie, Ripper GC make it a clean sweep at ROSHN Group LIV Golf Riyadh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RIYADH, Saudi Arabia \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livgolf.com\/ripper-gc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ripper GC<\/a> rookie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livgolf.com\/players\/elvis-smylie\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elvis Smylie<\/a> held off a hard-charging <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livgolf.com\/players\/jon-rahm\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jon Rahm<\/a> to claim victory at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livgolf.com\/schedule\/riyadh-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ROSHN Group LIV Golf Riyadh<\/a> in his first-ever LIV Golf start.<\/p>\n<p>The performance from Smylie was incredibly impressive as he made some fantastic shots down the stretch and handled the pressure with the poise of a veteran. The 23-year-old shot a final-round 64 to finish the tournament at 24-under, one shot ahead of Rahm. He\u2019s the first player to win in his LIV Golf debut since Henrik Stenson won LIV Golf Bedminster in 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livgolf.com\/leaderboard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RELATED: Final leaderboard<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s a dream come true,&#8221; Smylie said. &#8220;I really didn&#8217;t know what to expect this week. Playing at night is obviously a whole different ballgame out here.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to come out here and make a statement. I wanted to prove that I&#8217;m one of the best out here, and I feel like I&#8217;ve done that, and it&#8217;s only up from here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RIYADH, Saudi Arabia \u2013 Ripper GC rookie Elvis Smylie held off a hard-charging Jon Rahm to claim victory&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-413649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}