Cameron Smith is off to quite the start in 2022. He took the first event of the year at the winners-only Sentry Tournament of Champions, then fashioned a wild final-round 66 to win the Players Championship.
Here’s what few if any of the players competing in this week’s Saudi International want to discuss: the so-called Super Golf League that appears to be creeping ever closer to some sort of inauguration.
The 28-year-old Queenslander scored better than any other PGA Tour player ever has during the course of a golf tournament. At least in relation to Old Man Par.
With a five-shot buffer to the next-best player, American Daniel Berger, and a further shot back to Australian Matt Jones, it seems likely to be a two-man tete-a-tete again tomorrow.
Smith isn’t joylessly drilling 150 consecutive three footers like your favourite tour pro. He’s borrowing a page out of the Phil Mickelson Manual for Short Game Success and letting it fly, hair down, one hand on the wheel.
“The format is flawed.” “Men and women should compete together.”“Professionals who play for millions of dollars every week have no place at the Olympic Games.“ For three-and-a-half days everything that is wrong with golf at the Olympics was bandied about yet late on Sunday – to paraphrase Jeff Goldblum’s character in “Jurassic Park” – golf once again Read more…
Cameron Smith (-9) has given himself an outside chance of winning Australia’s first Olympic medal, while compatriot Marc Leishman (E) slipped further down the leaderboard in the third round at Kasumigaseki Country Club.
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