Open champion Cam Smith among latest PGA Tour players to join LIV Golf Series

Open champion Cam Smith has been confirmed as LIV Golf’s latest high-profile signing, as six more players were announced for this week’s event in Boston.

The world No 2, long linked with a money-spinning move to the new series, becomes the highest-ranked player to leave the PGA Tour.

Smith, 29, won The Open at St Andrews in July – his first major victory – when his stellar Sunday pipped the likes of Rory McIlroy to the Claret Jug.

The Australian was on Tuesday confirmed for LIV Golf, alongside compatriot Marc Leishman, world No 19 Joaquin Niemann, Cameron Tringale, Harold Varner III and Anirban Lahiri.

All six players are expected to tee it up at The International Golf Club in Boston, Massachusetts, on Friday – the fourth of the eight International Series events. The 48-man field carries a prize fund of $25 million.

Henrik Stenson, who was stripped of the 2023 European Ryder Cup captaincy for joining LIV Golf, won last month’s tournament – his debut – at Trump National.

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