LIV Golf Hong Kong: in-form Lucas Herbert hoping fast start will help him break through
Australian has finished in top 10 in season’s first two events, while his Ripper GC team will try to win third tournament in a row at Fanling
Soft fairways and receptive greens mean players will need a fast start at LIV Golf Hong Kong on Thursday, and while all eyes may naturally be on the likes of Jon Rahm and Anthony Kim, this could be the week Lucas Herbert finally breaks through.
The Australian has made a strong start to the season, finishing ninth and sixth in the individual contest at the first two tournaments in Riyadh and Adelaide.
In the two weeks between competing in front of home fans and arriving in Asia, he headed to the New Zealand Open and finished second, a result that earned him a spot at the Open Championship in July.
“It feels like I’ve gotten off to a really nice start,” the Ripper GC team member said. “I sort of did some hard work in the off-season, but also tweaked it a little bit from what I’d previously done, and it’s good to kind of get that result [Open qualification] being a positive and have it come so quickly.”
While acknowledging the freedom of not needing the 36-hole qualifier he battled through to reach the last major of 2025, the 30-year-old said rather than easing the pressure, last week’s result in the Asian Tour co-sanctioned event had put him “in more of a position now that I want to keep going”.
“I want to keep producing some really good consistent results because I was able to do that last year for the first half of the season and then it dropped off,” he said.