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From left, Ripper GC\u2019s Cameron Smith, Marc Leishman, Elvis Smyle and Lucas Herbert celebrate victory in Adelaide last month. Photo: EPA<\/p>\nSoft 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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt feels like I\u2019ve gotten off to a really nice start,\u201d the Ripper GC team member said. \u201cI sort of did some hard work in the off-season, but also tweaked it a little bit from what I\u2019d previously done, and it\u2019s good to kind of get that result [Open qualification] being a positive and have it come so quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u2019s result in the Asian Tour co-sanctioned event had put him \u201cin more of a position now that I want to keep going\u201d.<\/p>\n
From left, Ripper GC\u2019s Cameron Smith, Marc Leishman, Elvis Smyle and Lucas Herbert celebrate victory in Adelaide last month. Photo: EPA<\/p>\n
\u201cI 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,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Soft fairways and receptive greens mean players will need a fast start at LIV Golf Hong Kong on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[3443,214980,121913,64,63,3193,12266,173991,755,10340,257969,15811,259300,257968,5507,175344,16748,85],"class_list":["post-519331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-adelaide","tag-anthony-kim","tag-asian-tour","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cameron-smith","tag-detroit","tag-fireballs","tag-golf","tag-hong-kong","tag-hong-kong-golf-club","tag-jon-rahm","tag-legion-xiii","tag-liv-golf-hong-kong","tag-lucas-herbert","tag-new-zealand-open","tag-riyadh","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}