Cameron Smith golf

It was described in commentary as a “wild and emotional” ride but Australian Cameron Smith showed “nerves of steel” to hold strong and take out the Players ...

He is one of the top putters from ten feet and in, especially on the PGA Tour and he has shown that.” I played really well today. Really well all week. “It kept me in it. It’s going to take a while to sink in. It was just the latest recovery for Smith, who could have been in trouble earlier on the 14th when he drove into the right rough but recovered for a 13-foot putt to save par, with Paul McGinley calling it a “huge putt” from the Aussie. Smith appeared to have suffered a major setback in his bid to finish on top when he hit a duck hook on the 16th but the Australian recovered well to find the middle of the green on his third shot. “But to do it in this situation and set a mark for the players and himself over the first third of this final round in remarkable fashion. It was a rollercoaster from start to finish for Smith, who made 10 birdies and just four pars — tieing the fewest in the final round of a PGA Tour win in the last 40 years. It was described in commentary as a “wild and emotional” ride but Australian Cameron Smith showed “nerves of steel” to hold strong and take out the Players Championship – the biggest event on the PGA Tour. Smith found himself in the pine straw with his tee shot down the 18th and went for a conservative shot out of the trees but put too much power on it and sent the ball into the water. Already holding a two-shot lead, Smith took on the pin at the par-3 17th and hit one of the shots of the day as he sent his tee shot to around six feet.

He quickly jumped to No. 10 in the Official World Golf Ranking after setting the PGA Tour scoring record at the Sentry Tournament of Champions on his way to ...

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On an (extra) long week at the Player Championship, we'll remember Cam Smith's putting, Anirban Lahiri's gumption, a rules dust-up and much more.

“The past couple years when you show up, you can feel the weight of what the Players means to everyone, and I think that's the coolest thing. He continues to look out of sorts with the putter and still has not won a tournament, at least not officially, since the 2021 U.S. Open. Hovland and Morikawa are breathing down his neck. But then other weeks if I haven't hit many chip shots the whole week and then, suddenly, I have one that's a little awkward, I think I have a tendency of maybe guiding it a little too much.” He called it the “coldest I’ve ever been on a golf course,” and that’s coming from a Pacific Northwesterner. Francesco Molinari, who has followed this game all around the globe, called it “freezing.” Viktor Hovland’s got Viking in his bloodline, and he wore mittens all day. He looked up at his caddie, Joe Greiner, and gave the same look you give to your buds when you’re about to tee off in a 40-mph wind. He’s not one to get fast and loose with the rules, and there’s little chance he was trying to pull a fast one. He would’ve been a fitting champ on an unpredictable week, for even the sharpest touts can’t claim to have backed the Indian this week. In competition, the group is tasked with coming to a consensus on judgment calls. Berger thought his ball crossed over the hazard line up by the green, which would mean he gets to drop his ball up by the green. And it wasn’t just that he made the putts, it’s how he made them. The stats say he picked up 11.5 shots on the greens for the week, most in the field, and more than four in the final round alone. And with all due respect to the mallets out there, there’s something about a blade that makes the whole thing look a little better.

At last, America can be left in no doubt about what Australia has known for years. Cameron Smith is not just our best male golfer beyond a shadow of a doubt ...

The next Australian is Adam Scott at No.34, followed by No.38 Marc Leishman while Jason Day is No.94. They all want to play it ... It’s quite amazing,” he said. “When you play this one, if you win it your peers respect you because it’s the best field in golf all year. Gow warns that the Masters will be a “separate beast” to the Players, saying that Smith will have to “reset everything” before preparing for the major. The next big test for Smith is the first major of the year, the Masters, in less than a month’s time. “I feel I’ve put in the work and done work on my body and put in the time, so it’s nice to see that stuff paying off.” “It’s kind of weird to think that in the last three or four years, being the guy who goes from 20th to 40th in the world rankings to all of sudden to being six is kind of weird. “It doesn’t happen that often. It also shoots him up to second in this season’s FedEx Cup, and the lofty heights of No.6 in the world rankings. With only a two-shot lead, the most pressure-filled shot of Smith’s career became his best as he stuffed his 9-iron to within six-feet of the cup on the narrow side of the green, and sunk the birdie putt. “But he (Smith) may not be tee-to-green as good as a Jon Rahm or a Rory McIlroy or a Dustin Johnson or Justin Thomas, but it seems like when he gets into the moment of the lead or being close to it, it makes him better. Smith’s win at the Players earns him the biggest cash prize in golf of AUD$5 million, but worth just as much is the overdue respect of US pundits and peers alike.

The new champion choked back tears as he celebrated victory in front of his mum and sister, who he hadn't seen in two years.

It’s so good of the fans to come out today on a Monday.” The wind didn’t really do much for maybe three-quarters of the shot and held it up at the end there. “My main priority was just to hang out with them for these few weeks and golf was second. I had a lot of fans out there rooting for me today. “I was trying to hit it over the bunker there and hold it up against the wind. “It’s huge.

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. – His father gave him the golf part. Cameron Smith would go out with dad, Des, on weekends at Wantima Golf Club, first beating the ...

“He thinks back to a time when he beat them,” Price said. “Then I started crying.” And Cameron? “He had a bit of a giggle. Cameron Smith would sleep well Monday night, in a bed of his own. “His self-belief is everything. Cameron gets a kick out of the stories about his grandfather, but his toughness is a product of more than that. I think that's kind of instilled in all of us.” He finally had to accept that it was just too far, and set about making a life for himself here, leaning on friends like Aron Price, himself an Aussie touring professional before turning to real estate. But he brought a lot of people, those who came before him, along for the ride en route to his fifth PGA TOUR win. Although Hilliar picked up golf recreationally, and Sharon expected her dad was almost certainly watching Smith from Brisbane on Monday, glued to the TV set, the sport that would make his grandson famous would have meant nothing to him then. “Mel started crying first,” Sharon said. He picked her.” They're working-class people who have had to work their whole life to live basically, and yeah, I guess that's just kind of what I grew up in."