LIV golfer Abraham Ancer wins Saudi International

LIV golfer Abraham Ancer registered a victory at the Saudi International by two shots over Cameron Young on Sunday (February 5). The Mexican star completed a wire-to-wire victory in the tournament held in King Abdullah Economic City, Saudi Arabia.

The 31-year-old golfer carded a two-under-par 68 to finish at 19 under 261 to clinch the opening event of the Asian Tour. With this win, Ancer won his fourth career title and took home $1,000,000 in prize money.

Speaking at the winning conference, Ancer said:

“Another very solid round. Happy with no dropped shots. That's always my goal. On a golf course like this where it's blowing pretty good, I'm really, really happy. My ball-striking has definitely been on, and I've been rolling it really nice all week.”

He added:

“Yeah, extremely happy [with Saudi International win]. Not really focused on what everybody else is doing. Just trying to play the same game I've been playing the past three days. It's nice to see my name up there. Can't really focus on that. Just got to do it again.”

Interestingly, Young plays on the PGA Tour and has received a waiver to compete in the Saudi International, while Ancer plays in LIV Golf. The two rival series golfers secured the first two positions.

Greg Norman recently shared a social media post suggesting a tournament between LIV golfers and PGA Tour players and eventually, the LIV golfers and tour players playing on the same field against each other.

Last week, Rory McIlroy won the Dubia Classic by defeating LIV golfer Patrick Reed. However, at the PIF Saudi International, LIV golfers dominated the field.

Lucas Herbert finished third and the fourth position was secured by Saom Kaewkanjana. Patrick Reed finished T25 in a three-way tie alongside Graeme McDowell and Hennie Du Plessis.

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2023 Saudi International leaderboard

• 1. Abraham Ancer
• 2. Cameron Young
• 3. Lucas Herbert
• 4. Sadom Kaewkanjana
• 5. Paul Casey
• T6. Travis Smyth
• T6. Marc Leishman
• T6. Mito Pereira
• 9. Andy Ogletree
• T10. Joaquin Niemann
• T10. Matthew Wolff
• T12. Kyongjun Moon
• T12. Jbe Kruger
• T12. Shubhankar Sharma
• T12. Charl Schwartzel
• T12. Anirban Lahiri
• T12. Talor Gooch
• T18. Sanghyun Park
• T18. Peter Uihlein
• T18. Jinichiro Kozuma
• T18. Branden Grace
• T18. Nitithorn Thippong
• T18. Bernd Wiesberger
• T18. Jason Kokrak
• T25. Graeme McDowell
• T25. Patrick Reed
• T25. Hennie Du Plessis
• T28. Yeongsu Kim
• T28. Ian Snyman
• T28. Kiradech Aphibarnrat
• T28. Louis Oosthuizen
• T28. Sergio Garcia
• T28. Henrik Stenson
• T28. Richard Bland
• T35. James Pilot
• T35. Richard T.Lee
• T35. Takumi Kanaya
• T35. Taylor Dickson
• T35. Bjorn Hellgren
• T35. Cameron Champ
• T35. Ian Poulter
• T42. Cameron Tringale
• T42. Scott Vincent
• T42. Stefano Mazzoli
• T42. Sebastian Munoz
• T46. Laurie Canter
• T46. Harold Varner III
• T46. Wade Ormsby
• T46. Andrew Dodt
• T46. Wenyi Ding
• T46. Matthew Cheung
• T46. Brooks Koepka
• T53. Pat Perez
• T53 . David Puig
• T53. Jediah Morgan
• T56. Shiv Kumar
• T56. Kosuke Hamamoto
• T58. El Mehdi Fakori
• T58. Ervin Chang
• T58. Kevin Yuan
• T58. Todd Sinhott
• T58. Scott Hend
• T58. Matt Jones
• T58. Taehee Lee
• T58. Lee Westwood
• T66. Jazz Janewattanond
• T66. Ratchanon Chantananuwat
• T66. Phachara Khongwatmai
• T69. Siddikur Rahman
• T69. Issa Abouelela
• 71. Rashid Khan