Having finished 2023 just outside the top 50,Herbert will also skip the year’s majors,starting with The Masters at Augusta National in April.

But not being eligible for the PGA Tour’s elevated events this year,and with the chance to test himself against Rahm - who signed an eye-watering $900 million deal to join LIV in December - Smith,Brooks Koepka,Dustin Johnson and Bryson DeChambeau on a regular basis proved irresistible to Herbert.

Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund,which bankrolls LIV Golf,and the PGA Tour remain locked in talks about creating a new commercial entity that would end the bitter divide in men’s professional golf.

The parties were supposed to formalise a framework agreement by December 31 last year but agreed on an extension as LIV and Norman forge ahead with plans for a worldwide schedule in 2024.

Herbert will join Smith as the hometown heroes for the second staging of LIV’s Adelaide event from April 26.

Herbert has already won three times on the DP World Tour to go with his maiden PGA Tour victory at the Bermuda Championship in 2021.

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