An incredible finale on the Murray River has allowed Lucas Herbert to record his first professional win on Australian soil.
Herbert closed with a four-under-par 67 to extend Smith's drought, which is now at 15 months.Lucas Herbert has run down his superstar LIV Golf teammate Cameron Smith to secure his maiden professional win on home soil at the NSW Open on the Murray River.
Born two hours down the road across the Victorian border in Bendigo, Herbert prevailed with a 15-under 269 total in front of a posse of family and friends at Murray Downs Golf and Country Club, near Swan Hill. After backing up his tie for third at the Queensland PGA Championship with a runner-up showing, Smith continues to trend nicely ahead of his crack at a fourth Australian PGA crown next week at Royal Queensland.But the former world No.2 will lament letting the Kel Nagle Cup slip from his grasp and having to settle for a share of the runner-up spoils with unheralded NSW pair Corey Lamb and 41-year-old Alexander Simpson.
But with two bogeys and no birdies in his first eight holes, Smith watched his overnight four-stroke buffer over Herbert disappear before he even reached the turn on Sunday.Two months after combining with his Ripper GC skipper to claim LIV's 2024 teams' title in Dallas, Herbert won on his own for the first time since March last year in Hong Kong on the DP World Tour.
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