Sergio Garcia has stuffed the outlet in his Fireballs GC roster with a promising younger Spaniard who starred ultimately yr’s U.S. Newbie.
That participant can be Luis Masaveu.
Masaveu, a 22-year-old from Madrid, reached the semifinals at Hazeltine earlier than dropping to fellow countryman Josele Ballester, the Arizona State senior who went on to win the Havemeyer Trophy.
Masaveu’s newbie resume included a victory on the 2024 Portuguese Worldwide Newbie, plus low-amateur honors at each the 2022 and 2024 Spanish Opens on the DP World Tour. After reaching as excessive as sixteenth within the World Newbie Golf Rating, Masaveu turned professional final October and was set to obtain full Problem Tour standing by way of the World Newbie Pathway rating. He tied for ninth in his professional debut on the Asian Tour’s Worldwide Collection occasion in Qatar.
Masaveu replaces Eugenio Chacarra on the Fireballs roster, which incorporates Garcia, Abraham Ancer and David Puig, the latter of whom was Masaveu’s former teammate on the Spanish Nationwide Group.
“Clearly, it’s his first yr as a professional and coming in and enjoying with the large weapons,” Garcia informed LIV Golf’s Mike McAllister. “I feel it’s going to be a very good studying expertise. However all three of us, not solely myself however Abraham and David, we’re going to be there to help him, to cheer him on and guarantee that he can take pleasure in his recreation and play the way in which he can play.”
Mentioned Masaveu of becoming a member of Garcia’s workforce: “I’ve been watching him since I used to be a child, him profitable the Masters and within the Ryder Cup. So, it’s simply unimaginable. I’m simply actually, actually comfortable to be right here, and I’m simply going to attempt to study probably the most I can with him.”
With Masaveu’s Fireballs signing, that leaves one open roster spot on LIV for this season, which begins subsequent month. Nonetheless, a number of retailers have reported that Tom McKibbin will quickly signal with Jon Rahm’s Legion XIII.
