{"id":323001,"date":"2025-12-03T16:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T16:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/323001\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T16:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T16:19:08","slug":"liv-golf-2026-season-player-preview-lucas-herbert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/323001\/","title":{"rendered":"LIV Golf 2026 Season Player Preview: Lucas Herbert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2026 LIV Golf season starts next February under the lights in Riyadh, and in the next few months, we\u2019ll take a detailed look at each player competing next season. Next up is a player who\u2019s won on the PGA Tour, DP World Tour and Asian Tour &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livgolf.com\/ripper-gc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ripper GC<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livgolf.com\/players\/lucas-herbert\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lucas Herbert<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>LOOKING AHEAD<\/p>\n<p>Herbert&#8217;s primary objective for 2026 will be to translate his hot stretches into sustained, consistent performance across the entire league schedule. The 29-year-old&#8217;s consistency is vital for Ripper GC if the all-Australian squad hopes to repeat their past success and contend for the top regular-season seeding and the Team Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Herbert will need to find a way to qualify for the four major championships. His length off the tee and underrated short game make him a sleeper candidate to perform in the majors if he can find a way to get in them. An early chance will come at next month\u2019s Australian Open at Royal Melbourne which now offers automatic invitations to both the Masters and The Open Championship for the winner.<\/p>\n<p>LOOKING BACK<\/p>\n<p>Herbert started the 2025 season on fire, finishing in the top 24 in six of his first seven LIV Golf starts, highlighted by an impressive T2 in Mexico City and a pair of 4th-place finishes in both Riyadh and Hong Kong. He also had success outside of LIV Golf, where he captured the International Series Japan victory midway through the year. However, his strong form dissipated in the second half of the season. The Australian finished outside of the top 24 in each of his final six starts, and he missed the cut in his sole major championship appearance at The Open Championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 LIV Golf season starts next February under the lights in Riyadh, and in the next few&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-323001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}