Final leaderboard<\/a> <\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STERLING, Va. \u2014 Lucas Herbert did not make it easy on himself, but he made it count when…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-635687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}