{"id":457212,"date":"2026-02-08T23:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T23:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/457212\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T23:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T23:32:08","slug":"elvis-smylie-beats-jon-rahm-to-win-liv-debut-under-the-lights-in-riyadh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/457212\/","title":{"rendered":"Elvis Smylie beats Jon Rahm to win LIV debut under the lights in Riyadh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RIYADH, Saudi Arabia \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>The 23-year-old Australian also led Ripper GC to the team title.<\/p>\n<p>\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>Smylie finished at 24 under.<\/p>\n<p>Rahm closed with a bogey-free 63.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Uihlein was third at 21 under after a 67.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RIYADH, Saudi Arabia \u2014 Elvis Smylie won LIV Golf Riyadh on Saturday night in his tour debut, closing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-457212","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\/457212","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=457212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}