Lucas Herbert did not make it easy on himself, but he made it count when it mattered most.<\/p>\n
The Ripper GC stalwart closed with a 3-under 69 on a dramatic Sunday at Maaden LIV Golf Virginia to win his first individual title, holding off a hard-charging Sergio Garcia by four shots. Herbert navigated a roller coaster back nine at Trump National Washington D.C. \u2014 including a nervy stretch around the ninth and 10th holes that briefly tightened the contest \u2014 before steadying himself after a rain delay and closing out the final holes in emphatic fashion.<\/p>\n
“Probably that I can perform pretty damn well when things aren’t perfect,” Herbert said when asked what made him most proud. “I was pretty sick all week, and I woke up this morning probably feeling worse than I did the last few days. I had Sergio coming at me for 36 holes really hard, and he pushed me the whole way, made me earn that one. I didn’t doubt myself. After the rain delay, the way I played those eight shots, I’m so proud of that.”<\/p>\n
Garcia finished solo second at 20 under after a final-round 70, with Bryson DeChambeau third at 19 under following a closing 6-under 66. Dean Burmester finished fourth at 18 under, and Josele Ballester rounded out the top five at 17 under.<\/p>\n
Herbert’s caddie, Nick Pugh, was a central figure throughout the week, guiding his player around a course Herbert had never seen before Thursday.<\/p>\n
“We just had such a laugh out there,” Herbert said. “We said walking to the first tee, we’re going to have fun regardless. He’s amazing. There’s not a good enough word I can speak about him. He deserves it as much as I do.”<\/p>\n
The win came with a significant bonus \u2014 Herbert has earned the LIV Golf U.S. Open exemption, earning a spot in the field at Shinnecock Hills next month. It will be his 18th major championship start and a return to the venue where he made his major debut.<\/p>\n
“My first major ever was at Shinnecock. Nice to go back and see what I’ve learned since then,” Herbert said. “Can’t wait to get there and try to play like I did this week.”<\/p>\n
Thomas Detry, who entered the week in position to claim the exemption, finished T6 at 16 under \u2014 just shy of what he needed.<\/p>\n
On the team leaderboard, 4Aces GC claimed the team title in a playoff over Fireballs GC after both teams finished tied at 49 under.<\/p>\n
Leaderboards<\/p>\n
Individual Top 10<\/p>\n
1. Lucas Hebert (24-under)
2. Sergio Garcia (20-under)
3. Bryson DeChambeau (19-under)
4. Dean Burmester (18-under)
5. Josele Ballester (17-under)
T6. Thomas Dety (16-under)
T6. Anthony Kim (16-under)
T8. Jon Rahm (15-under)
T8. Scott Vincent (15-under)
T8. Joaquin Niemann (15-under)<\/p>\n
Team Top 3<\/p>\n
1. 4Aces (49-under; won by 1 stroke in playoff)
2. Fireballs (49-under)
3. Legion XIII (48-under)<\/p>\n
This piece is courtesy of Mike McAllister in partnership with LIV Golf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lucas Herbert did not make it easy on himself, but he made it count when it mattered most.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,6933,273015,118461,755,15811,239276,318510,14239,5507,5494,24852,1747,318509,6952,85,6926],"class_list":["post-662891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bryson-dechambeau","tag-dean-burmester","tag-dp-world-tour","tag-golf","tag-jon-rahm","tag-josele-ballester","tag-liv-liv-golf-virginia-05-07-2026","tag-liv-golf","tag-lucas-herbert","tag-marc-leishman","tag-paul-casey","tag-pga-tour","tag-richard-bland","tag-sergio-garcia","tag-sports","tag-thomas-detry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662891","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=662891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}