Lucas Herbert (golfer)

Lucas Herbert (born 5 December 1995) is an Australian professional golfer who plays on the European Tour. He won the 2020 Omega Dubai Desert Classic.

Lucas Herbert
Personal information
Born (1995-12-05) 5 December 1995
Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
Nationality Australia
Career
Turned professional2015
Current tour(s)European Tour
Former tour(s)PGA Tour of Australasia
Professional wins1
Highest ranking64 (15 March 2020)[1]
(as of 31 January 2021)
Number of wins by tour
European Tour1
Best results in major championships
Masters TournamentDNP
PGA ChampionshipT71: 2019
U.S. OpenT31: 2020
The Open ChampionshipT51: 2018

Amateur career

Herbert had a successful amateur career. As an amateur he lost in a playoff for the Lexus of Blackburn Heritage Classic, a tournament on the 2013 PGA Tour of Australasia.[2] He represented Australia in the 2014 Eisenhower Trophy where the team finished tied for 6th place. Herbert tied for the second-best individual score, three strokes behind Jon Rahm.[3] He turned professional in late 2015.

Professional career

After turning professional, Herbert played mostly on the PGA Tour of Australasia. In late 2016, he was runner-up in the Isuzu Queensland Open behind amateur Brett Coletta. A year later, in the 2017 NSW Open Championship, he was again runner-up, this time to Jason Scrivener and followed this with good finishes in the Emirates Australian Open and Australian PGA Championship.

In 2018, Herbert began playing the European Tour via sponsor exemptions, finishing 47th on the Race to Dubai and ending the year in the world top-100. He was runner-up in the Portugal Masters and was third three times including the Sky Sports British Masters. A good result in the SMBC Singapore Open gave him an entry into the 2018 Open Championship where he made the cut. He also qualified for the 2018 U.S. Open but missed the cut.

Herbert had a 7th-place finish in the 2019 Omega Dubai Desert Classic in January to reach a career high of 73 in the world rankings. However he only had one other top-10 finish, in the Omega European Masters, and finished 107th in the European Tour Order of Merit.

In January 2020, Herbert won his first European Tour event, the Omega Dubai Desert Classic, where he beat Christiaan Bezuidenhout in a playoff, lifting him back into the world top-100. In March was runner-up in the New Zealand Open behind Brad Kennedy.

Amateur wins
  • 2011 Tamar Valley Junior Cup, Victoria Junior Amateur
  • 2012 New South Wales Boy's Amateur

Source:[4]

Professional wins (1)

European Tour wins (1)
No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory		 Runner-up
1 26 Jan 2020 Omega Dubai Desert Classic −9 (69-71-71-68=279) Playoff Christiaan Bezuidenhout

European Tour playoff record (1–0)

No.YearTournamentOpponentResult
1 2020 Omega Dubai Desert Classic Christiaan Bezuidenhout Won with birdie on second extra hole

Playoff record

PGA Tour of Australasia playoff record (0–1)

No.YearTournamentOpponentsResult
1 2013 Lexus of Blackburn Heritage Classic
(as an amateur)		 David Bransdon, Max McCardle Bransdon won with birdie on first extra hole

Results in major championships

Results not in chronological order before 2019 and in 2020.

Tournament 201820192020
Masters Tournament
PGA Championship T71 CUT
U.S. Open CUT T31
The Open Championship T51 NT
  Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied
NT = No tournament due to COVID-19 pandemic

Results in World Golf Championships
Tournament2020
Championship T58
Match Play NT1
Invitational T49
Champions NT1

1Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic

  Did not play

NT = No tournament
"T" = Tied

Team appearances

Amateur

References
  1. "Week 11 2020 Ending 15 Mar 2020" (pdf). OWGR. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
  2. "Bransdon wins Heritage Classic, Herbert second". Golf Australia. 28 January 2013.
  3. "Ireland 11th in Eisenhower as USA edge out Canada". Irish Golf Desk. 13 September 2014.
  4. "Lucas Herbert". World Amateur Golf Ranking. Retrieved 9 May 2019.
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