Australian star Cameron Smith is in the driver’s seat to collect a $US18 million ($A28 million) payday if can hold onto the season-long individual points lead through the end of this week’s LIV Golf Jeddah event in Saudi Arabia.
The Cathedral Invitational will be played as a 36-hole event over two days, competing over scaled tees with one overall winner walking away with the $100,000 first prize.
Cameron Smith will take a four-shot lead into the final round of LIV Golf Bedminster, but he’ll have to contend with a New Jersey crowd desperate for Phil Mickelson to turn back the clock and a fiery Patrick Reed snapping at his heels.
Cameron Smith has come out swinging in his bid to win a second LIV Golf event this season, leading after a hot first round the event at Bedminster in New Jersey.
Former US President Donald Trump sees more major victories in Cameron Smith’s future after playing a nine-hole LIV Golf pro-am with the Australian star in New Jersey.
Adam Scott walked into the interview area at Royal Liverpool soaking wet, over par and having missed out on winning the elusive claret jug for another year.
Jason Day leads the Australian hopes of winning a second Open Championship in a row by a golfer from Down Under having clung to contention on day three at Royal Liverpool.
With Brian Harman sitting five strokes clear at the top of the leaderboard early Saturday morning, many UK golf fans were finally forced to learn who the hell Brian Harman is. He’s a lefty. He looks like a former Australian cricket captain.
Royal Liverpool has been defenceless in the early going of Round 3, the byproduct of wet confines and little rain. But the course does have one curveball to throw at the field:
In football terms, the language of the Liverpool galleries, Tommy Fleetwood’s five-shot deficit through 36 holes to Brian Harman at the Open Championship is not unlike his beloved Everton FC being a few goals down at halftime in a home game at Goodison Park. It’s not ideal, but it’s not ever either.
Cameron Smith was welcomed to the first tee at the 151st Open on Thursday morning to raucous applause and warmly announced as “the defending champion.” Less friendly, though, was the golf course at Royal Liverpool as the Australian began his title defence with a one-over-par 72.
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