Exclusive: PGA Tour winner becomes latest LIV Golf signing as 2024 exodus continues
With the LIV Golf season developing ever nearer, the breakaway league have added one more PGA Visit star to their program, with Ex-Open top dog Cam Smith finishing his team
Lucas Herbert is set to be declared as LIV Golf’s most recent getting paperwork done for the 2024 season, with the Australian joining compatriot Cam Smith at Ripper GC.
With only weeks to go until the opening LIV occasion in Mexico, the breakaway league have made one more move to at long last finishing their roster, with Flushing It detailing that the 28-year-old has joined Smith and co. The report got forward momentum when Herbert answered Flushing It on Instagram, including the remarks: ” How’s the photograph?”
Herbert will finish another all-Aussie program for Ripper, as he joins Smith, Marc Leishman and Matt Jones, and replaces the consigned Jediah Morgan.
As of late as last week, Smith was left with a half-full group in spite of the initial occasion being under a month away. He then, at that point, picked to bring Jones back into the arrangement, after the Aussie had fallen into free organization toward the finish of 2023, and it seems he has now procured the administrations of a PGA Visit rival.
Herbert is a victor on the American-based circuit, having been delegated champion at the Butterfield Bermuda Title in 2021. The Australian has two successes to his name on the DP World Visit as well, having won at the Dubai Desert Exemplary, the Irish Open and ISPS Handa Title in Japan throughout the course of recent years.
The 28-year-old will turn into the most recent PGA Visit part to do the Saudi switch, continuing in the strides of Bosses champion Jon Rahm last month. Rahm made LIV history in December, after the Spaniard marked a record-breaking manage the Saudi-upheld association worth a revealed £450 million.
As a feature of his turn, Rahm was allowed the opportunity to run and commander his own establishment, adding a thirteenth group to the LIV arrangement. Regardless of the lady occasion of the year being not far off however, there has still been no authority declaration on the Spaniard’s arrangement.
Various reports have guaranteed Rahm’s four-man group will be named ‘Army XIII’, with the as of late elevated Kieran Vincent set to be named as a partner. The Experts champion has likewise been connected with individual 2023 significant victor Wyndham Clark, who guaranteed the U.S. Open last June.
According to numerous reports, amateur star Caleb Surratt, who plays college golf at the University of Tennessee, is another player Rahm is interested in. The No. 10 beginner on the planet likewise had an impact in the US’s triumphant Walker Cup group in 2023.
