Lucas Herbert (golfer)

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Lucas Herbert
Personal information
Born (1995-12-05) 5 December 1995 (age 28)
Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
Height6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Weight200 lb (91 kg; 14 st)
Sporting nationalityFlag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
Residence Peregian Beach, Queensland, Australia
Career
Turned professional2015
Current tour(s) European Tour
PGA Tour of Australasia
LIV Golf
Former tour(s) PGA Tour
Professional wins4
Highest ranking 40 (9 January 2022) [1]
(as of 21 January 2024)
Number of wins by tour
PGA Tour1
European Tour3
Japan Golf Tour1
Best results in major championships
Masters Tournament CUT: 2022
PGA Championship T13: 2022
U.S. Open T31: 2020
The Open Championship T15: 2022

Lucas Herbert (born 5 December 1995) is an Australian professional golfer who plays on the European Tour and formerly on the PGA Tour. He has won three times on the European Tour and once on the PGA Tour, the 2021 Butterfield Bermuda Championship. In 2024, he joined the LIV Golf League.

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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 PGA Tour of Australasia. In late 2016, he was runner-up in the Isuzu Queensland Open behind amateur Brett Coletta. A year later, in the 2017 New South Wales Open, he was again runner-up, this time to Jason Scrivener and followed this with good finishes in the Emirates Australian Open and Australian PGA Championship.

In 2018, Herbert began playing the European Tour via sponsor exemptions, finishing 47th on the Race to Dubai and ending the year in the world top-100. He was runner-up in the Portugal Masters and had three third-place finishes, including the Sky Sports British Masters. A good result in 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 Dubai Duty Free Irish Open, finishing three strokes ahead of Rikard Karlberg, a result which qualified him into The Open Championship in two weeks time. [4] The following week, Herbert finished a stroke behind the leaders at the Abrdn Scottish Open, entering into the top 50 in the Official World Golf Ranking for the first time in his career. In August 2021, Herbert earned a place in the Korn Ferry Tour Finals in the category "Numbers 126-200 on PGA Tour Non-Member FedExCup Points List". [5] He finished inside the top 25, to earn a PGA Tour card for the 2021–22 season. In October 2021, he won his first PGA Tour event at the Butterfield Bermuda Championship. [6]

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

Source: [9]

Professional wins (4)

PGA Tour wins (1)

No.DateTournamentWinning scoreMargin of
victory		Runners-up
131 Oct 2021 Butterfield Bermuda Championship −15 (70-65-65-69=269)1 stroke Flag of New Zealand.svg Danny Lee, Flag of the United States.svg Patrick Reed

European Tour wins (3)

No.DateTournamentWinning scoreMargin of
victory		Runner-up
126 Jan 2020 Omega Dubai Desert Classic −9 (69-71-71-68=279)Playoff Flag of South Africa.svg Christiaan Bezuidenhout
24 Jul 2021 Dubai Duty Free Irish Open −19 (64-67-70-68=269)3 strokes Flag of Sweden.svg Rikard Karlberg
323 Apr 2023 ISPS Handa Championship in Japan 1−15 (67-63-68-67=265)Playoff Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Aaron Cockerill

1Co-sanctioned by the Japan Golf Tour

European Tour playoff record (2–0)

No.YearTournamentOpponentResult
1 2020 Omega Dubai Desert Classic Flag of South Africa.svg Christiaan Bezuidenhout Won with birdie on second extra hole
2 2023 ISPS Handa Championship in Japan Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Aaron Cockerill Won with birdie on second extra hole

Playoff record

PGA Tour of Australasia playoff record (0–1)

No.YearTournamentOpponentsResult
1 2013 Lexus of Blackburn Heritage Classic
(as an amateur)		 Flag of Australia (converted).svg David Bransdon, Flag of Australia (converted).svg Max McCardle Bransdon won with birdie on first extra hole

Results in major championships

Results not in chronological order before 2019 and in 2020.

Tournament201820192020202120222023
Masters Tournament CUT
PGA Championship T71CUTT71T13T40
U.S. Open CUTT31CUTCUT
The Open Championship T51NTCUTT15CUT
  Did not play

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

Results in The Players Championship

Tournament20222023
The Players Championship T68CUT

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

Results in World Golf Championships

Tournament2020202120222023
Championship T5870
Match Play NT1T18R16
Invitational T49T36
Champions NT1NT1NT1

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

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  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.
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