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

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