2021 World Wild Technology Championship at Mayakoba: Top 10 power rankings

Lucas Herbert has climbed inside the top 50 in the Official World Golf Rankings for the first time. It’s well-deserved after the 25-year-old Australian broke through for his first PGA Tour victory at last week’s Butterfield Bermuda Championship.

After graduating from Korn Ferry Tour Finals, Herbert missed the cut in his first two events. He regrouped to show the form that led him to a pair of wins on the European Tour.

Herbert fired 70-65-65-69 in windy conditions to win by one over Danny Lee and Patrick Reed.

He had his coach on the bag, the big-bearded Dom Azzopardi, which paid dividends. The two began a couple weeks ago working on Herbert’s takeaway, which he confessed was still a work in progress when the tournament began.

It just goes to show how talented these guys are to battle through swing fixes and still triumph.

“I was taking the club back a long way inside, inside plane going back and from there it was very hard to match it up,” Herbert was transcribed by Tee Scripts. “I was kind of leaking the ball to the right or double crossing left, which is not a really good way to play golf. “To be honest, like Thursday and Friday this week I still didn’t 100 percent trust it, so it was really nice this weekend it felt like everything was matching up, what I felt like I was making a move at, the ball felt like it was coming out exactly as I thought, so it was good it turned out this week, for sure.”

There was no Shotlink data to glean from Herbert’s win. We do know that he played fairly tidy golf with no double bogeys or worse. It helps when you’re fourth in the field in scrambling (77.78%).

This is Herbert’s World Wide Technology Championship at Mayakoba debut.

He ranked first last season on the European Tour in putts per green in regulation (1.7) and ninth in putts per round (27.45).

Herbert made the cut at the 2021 PGA Championship, which featured paspalum greens like at El Camaleon.