While he had confirmed to us at the beginning of the week that he would not go to San Francisco to play the PGA Championship (August 6-9), Benjamin Hébert finally reconsidered his initial choice. The reason for this turnaround? The lifting of the quarantine formalized on Saturday evening by the PGA Tour for all international players. Result, Benjamin Hébert will be the third French to take part in the first Major of the season with Victor Perez and Mike Lorenzo-Vera, these two being already on American soil at the time of writing. The Brivist will however take part from Thursday in Birmingham to the Hero Open (July 30-August 2) counting for the European Tour before flying in stride to California.
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“This lifting of quarantine obviously changes everything, confirms Benjamin Hébert. Under these conditions, it is clear that I want to play this USPGA at TPC Harding Park. Especially since I have just completed two good weeks of preparation. And then I will have a tournament in the legs since I will take part in the Hero Open which begins next Thursday. I want to say that it is an almost ideal preparation, that we would have liked to imagine at the start. In short, the decision was not very complicated to make. Now, with Max (Maxime Demory, the boss of Team Saint-Laurent), we will have to find solutions to reach San Francisco. We're on it. It looks rather playable. The program is therefore to play again next week to recover a bit in the conditions of a tournament, both in the legs and in the head. And then leave immediately to play a Major. It's pretty cool as a program… ”
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After the British Open 2008 and 2019, this USPGA 2020 will therefore be his third Grand Slam tournament. Since the start of the season on the European Tour truncated by the pandemic linked to Covid-19, Benjamin Hébert has taken part in seven events, passing the cut five times in six starts. His best result so far is a 4th place at AfrAsia Bank Mauritius on December 8th. He also managed to sign a nice top 20 (18th) at the WGC-Mexico Championship on February 23, 2020, a few days before taking 17th place in the Qatar Masters (March 8). It is to this day, his last meeting on the European Tour ...