Abraham Ancer beaten Cameron Young by two strokes on Sunday to win the Saudi International in King Abdullah Economic City, Saudi Arabia.
The Mexican golfer won his fourth career title and $1,000,000 in cash prizes in the final.
“That was a lot of fun and the first time I’ve been able to win wire-to-wire. I played good every single day.” Ancer said.
“I kept telling myself I was in 20th place and didn’t really look at the leaderboard much. I felt pretty much in control of my game.” Ancer added.
Ancer kept the top for three rounds, Young took the second place in two consecutive rounds. At the end of the third round, Ancer ranked first with a score of -17, while Young was next, at -15. He dropped five strokes from T3.
Ancer and Young both entered the last game from hole 1 in the last round. Through seven holes, Young scored four birdies, doubled Ancer and caught up at hole 7, when his opponent kept par.
The next two holes, Ancer in turn finished birdie-bogey, while Young scored birdie-par. With that form, Ancer went to -17, Young -16 at the end of the half round.
The remaining nine holes, Ancer all par, Young lost three points in the 13-15, removed two points in the last three holes.
Ancer set the winning score at -19 points, two strokes ahead of Young. This also separates Young from fellow PGA Tour fellow Lucas Herbert.
The LIV Golf League, sponsored by the Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF), has not been recognized on the world professional men’s golf table (OWGR), again in sharp conflict with the PGA Tour and its DP World Tour ally.
This problem causes their players to be banned from the US first-class golf tournament and limited to the European peer-to-peer system. As a result, most of LIV Golf’s factors are gradually dropping OWGR, leading to narrowing or losing the door to the major quartet.
