{"id":429263,"date":"2026-01-25T16:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T16:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/429263\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T16:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T16:27:08","slug":"liv-golfs-patrick-reed-coasts-to-win-at-dubai-desert-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/429263\/","title":{"rendered":"LIV Golf&#8217;s Patrick Reed coasts to win at Dubai Desert Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jan 25, 2026, 08:24 AM ET<\/p>\n<p>DUBAI, United Arab Emirates &#8212; Former Masters champion and current LIV Golf circuit member <a data-player-guid=\"f35e551e-8602-99fc-d022-187826e10090\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/5579\/patrick-reed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Patrick Reed<\/a> 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 <a data-player-guid=\"9a379ef4-b80e-8245-1833-d3037aeee366\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/5956\/andy-sullivan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andy Sullivan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a data-player-guid=\"7eec3924-03c8-0f72-b486-f7e164ae0991\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/1694\/julien-guerrier\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Julien Guerrier<\/a> of France and Spain&#8217;s <a data-player-guid=\"34858d7f-ff7b-3d6f-8f3e-7570f3b49f19\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/489542\/david-puig\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David Puig<\/a> finished tied for third, one back of Sullivan.<\/p>\n<p><a data-player-guid=\"65575c5e-0ef2-9f58-6495-42da8638a332\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/3470\/rory-mcilroy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rory McIlroy<\/a>&#8216;s chances of a record-extending fifth title fell well short with a 33rd-place tie.<\/p>\n<p>Reed, who won the 2018 Masters for his only major victory, 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":"Jan 25, 2026, 08:24 AM ET DUBAI, United Arab Emirates &#8212; Former Masters champion and current LIV Golf&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-429263","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}