Lucas Herbert (golfer)

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Lucas Herbert
Personal information
Born (1995-12-05) 5 December 1995 (age 28)
Former tour(s)PGA Tour
Professional wins4
Highest ranking40 (9 January 2022)[1]
(as of 21 April 2024)
Number of wins by tour
PGA Tour1
European Tour3
Japan Golf Tour1
Best results in major championships
Masters TournamentCUT: 2022
PGA ChampionshipT13: 2022
U.S. OpenT31: 2020
The Open ChampionshipT15: 2022

Lucas Herbert (born 5 December 1995) is an Australian

LIV Golf League
.

Early life and amateur career

Herbert was born on 5 December 1995. He was raised in Bendigo (located in Victoria, Australia) and played his junior golf at Neangar Park Golf Club and Commonwealth Golf Club before turning professional. As an amateur he lost in a playoff for the

Lexus of Blackburn Heritage Classic, a tournament on the 2013 PGA Tour of Australasia.[2] He represented Australia in the 2014 Eisenhower Trophy where the team finished tied for 6th place. Herbert tied for the second-best individual score, three strokes behind Jon Rahm.[3]
He turned professional in late 2015.

Professional career

After turning professional, Herbert played mostly on the

.

In 2018, Herbert began playing the

SMBC Singapore Open gave him an entry into the 2018 Open Championship where he made the cut. He also qualified for the 2018 U.S. Open
, but missed the cut.

Herbert had a 7th-place finish in the 2019

Omega Dubai Desert Classic in January to reach a career high of 73 in the world rankings. However he only had one other top-10 finish, in the Omega European Masters
, and finished 107th in the European Tour Order of Merit.

In January 2020, Herbert won his first European Tour event, the

Omega Dubai Desert Classic, where he beat Christiaan Bezuidenhout in a playoff, lifting him back into the world top-100. In March 2020, he was runner-up in the New Zealand Open behind Brad Kennedy
.

In July 2021 he became a wire-to-wire winner of the

In April 2023, Herbert won the ISPS Handa Championship in Japan, he defeated Aaron Cockerill in a playoff.[7]

In January 2024, it was reported that Herbert would join LIV Golf for the 2024 season.[8]

Amateur wins

  • 2011 Tamar Valley Junior Cup, Victoria Junior Amateur
  • 2012 New South Wales Boy's Amateur

Source:[9]

Professional wins (4)

PGA Tour wins (1)

No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory
Runners-up
1 31 Oct 2021
Butterfield Bermuda Championship
−15 (70-65-65-69=269) 1 stroke New Zealand Danny Lee, United States Patrick Reed

European Tour wins (3)

No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory
Runner-up
1 26 Jan 2020
Omega Dubai Desert Classic
−9 (69-71-71-68=279) Playoff South Africa Christiaan Bezuidenhout
2 4 Jul 2021
Dubai Duty Free Irish Open
−19 (64-67-70-68=269) 3 strokes Sweden Rikard Karlberg
3 23 Apr 2023 ISPS Handa Championship in Japan1 −15 (67-63-68-67=265) Playoff Canada Aaron Cockerill

1Co-sanctioned by the Japan Golf Tour

European Tour playoff record (2–0)

No. Year Tournament Opponent Result
1 2020
Omega Dubai Desert Classic
South Africa Christiaan Bezuidenhout Won with birdie on second extra hole
2 2023 ISPS Handa Championship in Japan Canada Aaron Cockerill Won with birdie on second extra hole

Playoff record

PGA Tour of Australasia playoff record (0–1)

No. Year Tournament Opponents Result
1 2013
Lexus of Blackburn Heritage Classic

(as an amateur)
Australia David Bransdon, Australia Max McCardle Bransdon won with birdie on first extra hole

Results in major championships

Results not in chronological order before 2019 and in 2020.

Tournament 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
Masters Tournament CUT
PGA Championship T71 CUT T71 T13 T40
U.S. Open CUT T31 CUT CUT
The Open Championship T51 NT CUT T15 CUT
  Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied
NT = No tournament due to COVID-19 pandemic

Results in The Players Championship

Tournament 2022 2023
The Players Championship T68 CUT

CUT = missed the halfway cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place

Results in World Golf Championships

Tournament 2020 2021 2022 2023
Championship
T58 70
Match Play
NT1 T18 R16
Invitational
T49 T36
Champions NT1 NT1 NT1

1Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic

  Top 10
  Did not play

NT = No tournament
"T" = Tied
Note that the Championship and Invitational were discontinued from 2022. The Champions was discontinued from 2023.

Team appearances

Amateur

See also

References

  1. OWGR
    . Retrieved 10 January 2022.
  2. ^ "Bransdon wins Heritage Classic, Herbert second". Golf Australia. 28 January 2013.
  3. ^ "Ireland 11th in Eisenhower as USA edge out Canada". Irish Golf Desk. 13 September 2014.
  4. ^ "Lucas Herbert wins Dubai Duty Free Irish Open in final day thriller". Irish Independent. 4 July 2021.
  5. ^ "Inside the Field: Boise Open". PGA Tour. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
  6. ^ "Lucas Herbert battles elements, holds off challengers for first PGA Tour win at 2021 Butterfield Bermuda Championship". Golfweek. 31 October 2021.
  7. ^ Walton, Darren (23 April 2023). "Aussie golfer Herbert in thrilling playoff win in Japan". Perth Now. Retrieved 23 April 2023.
  8. ^ Gussoni, Andrea (17 January 2024). "Lucas Herbert joins LIV Golf and Cam Smith". Tennis World USA. Retrieved 17 January 2024.
  9. ^ "Lucas Herbert". World Amateur Golf Ranking. Retrieved 9 May 2019.

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