Abraham Ancer outlasts Cameron Young to win 2023 PIF Saudi International 03:18, 06/02/2023

Abraham Ancer is the best name of Saudi International 2023 when he has always maintained the lead position for 4 rounds, crowned with a convincing wire-to-wire victory in the first tournament of the 2023 Asian Tour.

Entering the final round, Abraham Ancer and Cameron Young ranked first and second respectively with a close score of 2 strokes. After the first 7 holes, both shared the co-leading position when Young scored 4 birdies in a row at holes 2, 4, 5, 7 respectively; and Ancer only scored 2 birdies. Then two golfers competed directly for the championship.

In the back-nine, Young suddenly dropped in form when he got 2 bogeys and 1 double bogey on holes 8, 13 and 15, while only scoring 2 birdies on holes 16 and 18. Ancer got a bogey on the 9th hole then kept even par on the remaining holes.

The Mexican-American golfer completed the round and maintained a 2-stroke lead from Cameron Young. This victory brought Abraham Ancer his fourth career title, as well as his first on the Asian Tour. Currently, the 31-year-old golfer is a member competing at LIV Golf. With this victory Young added 24.42 points on the OWGR World Golf Ranking.

Third place at the tournament was Australian golfer Lucas Herbert with -15 strokes, one place ahead of Thai golfer Sadom Kaewkanjana with -14 strokes. Paul Casey finished 5th with -13 strokes.