The 28-year-old Spaniard claimed the title at the Sentry Tournament of Champions on Sunday, posting a 10-under 63 to win for a 27-under 265 total to grab his eighth career victory on the PGA Tour—a year after finishing second in this event.
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.
As for how we can actually use this information to improve our own games, The Putting Engineer says to aim a little lower than the greatest of all time.
Australian duo Richard Green and David McKenzie have locked up their immediate futures on the PGA Tour Champions circuit after superb finishes at Q-School at the weekend.
When John Key stunned everyone by stepping down as New Zealand Prime Minister in 2016, we (kinda) jokingly speculated he was doing it to play more golf.
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.
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