Cameron Smith

2022 - 7 - 17

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The Open talking points: Cameron Smith's win, Rory McIlroy's near ... (Sky Sports)

As the door closes on another year of men's majors, golf celebrates a new champion in Cameron Smith after he stormed to victory over Rory McIlroy in a ...

The conversations remain uncomfortable as golf enters its post-major stage of the year. Rest assured, though, he is right where he needs to be, ready to win again, and were it not for the unrivalled expectation and attention he garners you can't help but feel four would be significantly more by now. It was a moment of reflection, celebration and appreciation for a player who has transformed golf, as he was likely bidding farewell to his favourite course. While blustery conditions across the opening days proved disruptive, the R&A also came away with credit for shrewd pin placements and were reflected by a top 10 consisting of some of the world's best. In many ways, his subtle demeanour contradicted the boldness of his strokes and that famed mullet, Smith each day underlining his intention to stay 'boring' with his one-hole-at-a-time mentality. Cameron Hogwood reflects on some of the main talking points from a blockbuster week in Scotland...

Cameron Smith earns Jack Nicklaus praise after matching his feat ... (BreakingNews.ie)

The duo are the only golfers to win the Players and Open in the same season.

The Players at the start of the year, with the best field in golf, to go away with the win was a really big confidence booster. It’s pretty cool to be on there. I’ve knocked on the door, I think, maybe one too many times now. “I’ve definitely been on that track a few times in my career. That was fun to watch. 64 on Sunday! Unbelievable!”

'I just won the British Open and you're asking about that ... (Independent.ie)

Australia's Cameron Smith faces questions about his future after claiming his maiden major title in brilliant fashion in the 150th Open Championship at St ...

After just two birdies on the front nine he sprang to life after the turn with a remarkable run of five successive gains – the longest for a player in the final round of the Open in 21 years – which turned the tide in his favour. A dropped shot there would have opened the door for the chasing Rory McIlroy. To do it around St Andrews I think is just unbelievable,” said Smith, who declined the chance to deny reports linking him to the Saudi-backed LIV Golf series in his winner’s press conference.

How Cameron Smith became the Savant of St. Andrews (GolfDigest.com)

But on this Sunday, my job was to write the winner. And that winner, of course, would be Rory McIlroy, whom I first met when he was 19 and destined for golf ...

He only needed one of those two titles to be the Champion Golfer of the Year. He’s it, just like Rory was in 2014. With those two big titles, he will be at the heart of the conversation for various player of the year awards, lower-case letters. Greg Norman, the great Australian golfer, won the Open in 1986 and ’93. Until Sunday, he was the last Aussie to win the Open. Smith was born a few weeks after Norman’s win in ’93. They are both from Queensland. The R&A powers disinvited Norman from this year’s dinner for former champions, because of his role as the commissioner of the upstart league, the LIV Golf series. For three days, McIlroy was doing everything right on the course with his clubs and everything right off the course in his interviews. I asked him to compare the two courses. The ball stopped about a foot under the hole. I can’t think of a major where a 36-hole leader went south on Saturday and came back to win on Sunday. In that situation, a bad Saturday round usually dooms your Sunday, too. Everybody playing any good broke 70 on Saturday. When you consider how short the course was playing, it was essentially a par 68 on Saturday. Smith shot 73. The first is that there is not a pretentious bone in his body. As McIlroy said early in the week, the Old Course is a fiddly course. Smith looked almost Seve-like, and almost Daly-like, in his ability to assess speed and line, to negotiate the hundreds of little hillocks that make the Old Course the Old Course. Those who really, really have the gift, as Seve Ballesteros (the winner here in 1984) and John Daly (the winner here in 1995), can size up the demands of the shot in a nanosecond, even if they might use a full half-minute to make things look more dramatic. But on this Sunday, my job was to write the winner.

Cameron Smith Clashes With Reporter And Gives Hollow Response ... (Balls.ie)

While much of the golfing world lay in waiting for Rory McIlroy to finally end his major hoodoo yesterday, Cameron Smith had other ideas.

The Australian put together one of the most remarkable back nines in major history, recording five birdies on the spin after the turn to move to the top of the leaderboard. The LIV Golf question everyone is tweeting about. pretty, not that good"pic.twitter.com/Jn5FGtOUSf Cameron Smith ascended to second place in the world rankings with this victory, although that is not a spot he will be hanging onto in the long-term should he make the move to LIV Golf. Aussie Aussie Aussie, Oi Oi Oi! 🇦🇺🏆 A spectacular final round mate. You’re in good company :-) Enjoy every moment of your@TheOpenvictory @CameronSmithPGA. #TheOpen #thatwinningfeeling pic.twitter.com/GIdvhLpPVa

SI:AM | Cameron Smith Rose to the Occasion (Sports Illustrated)

Rory McIlroy's four-shot lead disappeared in a flash but there's no shame in losing to someone as impressive as Cameron Smith was.

Sapped of the already limited power he had earlier in his career, the milestone hit was one of just six homers he hit in 2011. The success of the two World Cup tournaments led to a series of competitions called the “ Mundialito” (Spanish for “little World Cup”), held in Italy four times between 1984 and ’88, plus a smaller version in Japan in ’81. The Mundialito, like the ’70 and ’71 World Cups, was not a FIFA-sanctioned event, but it did prove that women’s soccer could be commercially successful. The Jeter cover was one of two covers SI published that week. When a golfer blows a four-stroke lead in the final round of a major, it’s easy to look back on the tournament and say he “lost” it. Even still, the tournament was a popular event. His bogey-free 64 was tied for the lowest round of the tournament. Nick Selbe breaks down a star-studded first round of the MLB draft. Yes, he had to make birdie at the 18th to edge Young by a stroke, but a bogey there would have changed everything. He needed just 29 putts on Sunday, compared to 35 on Saturday. For McIlroy, though, it was the putter that did him in, as Michael Rosenberg wrote: Smith’s disappointing second shot came perilously close to going into a greenside bunker, and the pin location made a chip shot all but impossible. All Smith did was come out and play the round of his life. Smith fired a final-round 64 to capture his first major championship, finishing the tournament at 20 under par.

Cameron Smith a British Open champion and man for any course (The Washington Post)

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — Cameron Smith made eight birdies on the final day of the British Open. His 8-under 64 was the lowest closing round at St. Andrews by ...

Young made a 15-foot eagle on the 18th hole for a 65, tied for the lead for as long as it took Smith to tap in for birdie. As McIlroy spoke to the media, he had to pause every now and then. There were cheers from a record crowd as Smith walked onto the green to accept the claret jug and be introduced as “champion golfer of the year.” Smith and Young were four behind and by the end of the day, one had the silver claret jug and the other had a silver medal. “Towards the end of last year, I had a lot of chances and really didn’t get over the line. I think that made me more eager, I guess, at the start of the year to really knuckle down and try and get over the line. Today kind of just is more proof that he is that good, and he is one of the very, very best players in the world.” Smith used his magic touch with the putter to run it along with edge of the bunker onto the green and made the 10-footer for par. His third win this year came at Kapalua on the Plantation course with its wild changes in elevation and big greens with high wind. “I think it’s just another example of why he’s one of the very best,” Young added. ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — Cameron Smith made eight birdies on the final day of the British Open. His 8-under 64 was the lowest closing round at St. Andrews by the champion golfer of the year. That was the score when Smith was on the 17th hole.