World No.2 Cameron Smith among latest players to join LIV Golf

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Open champion Cameron Smith has become LIV Golf’s highest-ranked recruit, after the 29-year Australian, winner of the Claret Jug at St Andrews last month, was officially confirmed as having joined the Saudi-backed series following weeks of speculation.
Smith will be among six players to make their debut in the series at the LIV Golf Invitational Boston, which is being held at The International in Massachusetts, USA from September 2-4. Smith, who is currently ranked world no.2, while be joined by Chile’s Joaquin Niemann, American’s Harold Varner III and Cameron Tringale, Austrialian Marc Leishman and India’s top-ranked professional, Anirban Lahiri. They will complete the line up of 48 players competing in Massachusetts.

Bubba Watson, who signed for LIV Golf last month, will be a non-playing captain and will be part of the commentary team to live event coverage.

In addition to his victory at the 150th Open Championship, Smith has seven other tour wins to his name, including the PGA Tour’s Players Championship earlier this year.  Niemann is the only other world top-25 player among the new recruits to LIV Golf, with the 23–year-old Chilean currently ranked 19th in the world with two professional wins, 26 top-10 finishes. He represented the International Team in the 2019 Presidents Cup and Chile at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.

Speaking about his latest signings, LIV Golf CEO Greg Norman said: “LIV Golf is showing the world that our truly global league is attracting the world’s best players and will grow the game into the future for the next generation. The best and the brightest continue to embrace the excitement and energy of LIV Golf and what we’re building – a tangible league for team golf that will connect with new audiences all over the globe. We can’t wait to tee off this week at The International and deliver another memorable event experience for fans.”
LIV GOLF INVITATIONAL BOSTON
MEX Abraham Ancer AUS Jediah Morgan
ENG Richard Bland USA Kevin Na
ENG Laurie Canter CHL Joaquin Niemann
ENG Paul Casey RSA Shaun Norris
ESP Eugenio Chacarra RSA Louis Oosthuizen
USA Bryson DeChambeau AUS Wade Ormsby
ESP Sergio Garcia MEX Carlos Ortiz
USA Talor Gooch ESP Adrian Otaegui
RSA Branden Grace USA Pat Perez
ENG Sam Horsfield USA Turk Pettit
USA Charles Howell III USA James Piot 
USA Dustin Johnson ENG Ian Poulter
AUS Matt Jones USA Patrick Reed
THA Sadom Kaewkanjana RSA Charl Schwartzel
GER Martin Kaymer AUS Cameron Smith
THA Phachara Khongwatmai SWE Henrik Stenson
USA Sihwan Kim USA Hudson Swafford
USA Brooks Koepka USA Cameron Tringale
USA Chase Koepka USA Peter Uihlein
USA Jason Kokrak USA Harold Varner III
IND Anirban Lahiri ZIM Scott Vincent
AUS Marc Leishman ENG Lee Westwood
NIR Graeme McDowell AUT Bernd Wiesberger
USA Phil Mickelson USA Matthew Wolff

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