{"id":603481,"date":"2026-04-14T13:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T13:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/603481\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T13:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T13:41:08","slug":"herbert-leads-star-studded-singapore-field-on-the-international-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/603481\/","title":{"rendered":"Herbert leads star-studded Singapore field on The International Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

LIV Golf star Lucas Herbert<\/a> will have the opportunity to revisit the scene of one of his early successes after confirming he will participate in next week\u2019s Singapore Open presented by The Business Times<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Australian will be one of the headline acts that includes fellow LIV Golf players Josele Ballester<\/a> and Luis Masaveu<\/a> of Fireballs GC<\/a>, Peter Uihlein<\/a> of RangeGoats GC<\/a>, Caleb Surratt<\/a> of Legion XIII<\/a>, HyFlyers GC<\/a>‘s Michael La Sasso<\/a> and Korean Golf Club<\/a>‘s Danny Lee<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Miguel Tabuena and Bjorn Hellgren, both playing on LIV Golf as Wild Cards, will also compete in the US$2million event which will be played on The Serapong at Sentosa Golf Club, 23-26 April.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Herbert has played in Singapore\u2019s National Open once before back in 2018 when he tied for eighth.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It was a strong performance early in his career that came with the added bonus of qualifying for his first Open Championship \u2013 as like this year the Singapore Open was part of the Open Qualifying Series. He went on to make the cut at Carnoustie Golf Links, in what was only his second appearance in a Major.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 30-year-old has already qualified for this year\u2019s Open by virtue of finishing second in the New Zealand Open in February but will no doubt be focused on following up his victory at last year’s International Series Japan in Singapore. His win in Japan was his first success on the Asian Tour, and The International Series.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He will face one of the strongest fields of the year on the Asian Tour next week. His compatriot Travis Smyth, who claimed the International Series Japan at the start of the month to take the lead on the Asian Tour Order of Merit (OOM) and The International Series Rankings, is back in action as well as reigning Merit champion Kazuki Higa from Japan.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Former OOM winners John Catlin, Andy Ogletree, and Sihwan Kim from the United States have also entered as well as Thailand\u2019s Jazz Janewattananond. Jazz won the 2019 Singapore Open enroute to finishing the year as the number one ranked player.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Thailand\u2019s Sadom Kaewkanjana who won the Singapore Open in 2022 when it was last played at Sentosa Golf Club will also tee-off next week.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Nine other winners from last year on the Asian Tour will add further depth to what will be the 57th staging of the tournament: Thailand\u2019s Suteepat Prateeptienchai, Rattanon Wannasrichan, Poosit Supupramai and Ekpharit Wu, Dominic Foos from Germany, Australian Wade Ormsby, Korea\u2019s Doyeob Mun, American Ollie Schniederjans, and Julien Sale from France.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hong Kong number one Taichi Kho and Korean Jeunghun Wang, who lost in a play-off last year, will also compete along with twelve Singaporeans led by Nicklaus Chiam and James Leow \u2013 both winners on the Asian Development Tour recently \u2013 reinforcing The International Series\u2019 commitment to provide opportunities for local talent to compete at the highest level.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The leading two players not otherwise exempt will secure places in The 154th Open at Royal Birkdale in July.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Singapore Open presented by The Business Times is the fourth leg on this year\u2019s Asian Tour and the second stop on The International Series \u2013 the upper-tier level of events on the Tour the provide a pathway to the LIV Golf League via The International Series Rankings<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lucas Herbert of Ripper GC during round four of the 105th New Zealand Open at Millbrook Golf Resort (Photo courtesy of\u00a0Asian Tour)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LIV Golf star Lucas Herbert will have the opportunity to revisit the scene of one of his early…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-603481","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603481","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=603481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}