Open champion Smith joins the LIV Golf Series
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Open champion Cameron Smith has become the highest-ranked player to join the Saudi-funded LIV Golf Series.
The 29-year-old world number two has been confirmed in the field for the upcoming LIV tournament in Boston.
Smith he refused to be drawn into his future after winning the Open – his first major – at St Andrews in July.
The Australian will be joined at the September 2-4 event by rising star Joaquin Niemann, the 23-year-old world number 19 from Chile.
Smith and Niemann are among six new faces competing in the 48-person field in Massachusetts in what is the fourth LIV event in its inaugural series.
They include Australian Marc Leishman, 38, who was runner-up at the 2015 St Andrews Open, as well as Americans Harold Varner III, 32, and Cameron Tringale, 35, plus the Indian professional Anirban Lahiri, 35.
Currently, players competing in the LIV Series are not eligible to play in PGA Tour events, although the DP World Tour has temporarily suspend LIV Golf players.
More to follow.
