When golf fans look backwards, they don’t think in terms of years, or seasons. They think in moments. Remember when Cameron Smith putted around the Road Hole bunker to win the Open at St Andrews? Or Jordan Spieth hitting that shot off a cliff at Pebble Beach?
Cameron Smith enjoyed an epic year highlighted by five wins around the world. Chief among the three PGA Tour titles he claimed was the 150th Open Championship at St Andrews, but he also triumphed at the Players Championship and Sentry Tournament of Champions in stunning fashion.
The two-time Major champion was announced as the chief executive and commissioner of the LIV Golf in 2021, but it was this year when the controversial Saudi-backed circuit really came to life.
Let’s take an end-of-year detour now and tip our caps to the moments that we’ve almost already forgotten, giving them one last moment in the sun before the calendar flips and they become even more distant in time’s rearview.
Tiger Woods, if he wanted, could play golf with just about anybody on the planet, and he could probably set it up for tomorrow. So who would he choose?
Any list of controversies for the year should inevitably begin with LIV Golf. Do a quick Google search for “golf controversies 2022” and the first page delivers only LIV-related headlines. The fledging Saudi-backed series made more news than anything else in the sport this year, and it ruffled a lot of feathers along the way, to put it mildly.
There are so many great parts packed in that 55 seconds! Although, you’ve really got to hear Per Haugsrud and Henrik Bjornstad to do this clip justice.
Australian Golf Digest
