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Cameron Smith, world number 3, won the LIV Golf Chicago in Sugar Grove (Illinois), United States. In the Arab Super League tournament, the Australian with a total of 203 (66 68 69, -13), overtook the competition of the Americans Peter Uihlein and Dustin Johnson, three strokes apart.
Cameron Smith, results
The success earned the 29-year-old from Brisbane $ 4 million out of a total prize pool of 20,000,000. For the 29-year-old from Brisbane, who has recently left the PGA Tour, this is the fourth success of 2022 after those arrived at the Sentry Tournament of Champions, The Players and the 150th edition of The Open.
Really a golden year for Smith, who shrugged off "the highest pressure after a period of controversy in which I felt I had to prove to myself that even if I changed tours, I am not a worse player than before, but always the one before, with a great desire to win ", the outburst of the Australian.
Fourth in his debut in the LIV, in the second round he hit the mark straight away. In the team competition, Dustin Johnson, captain of the "4 Ages GC", led his team to the fourth consecutive exploit, also made up of Patrick Reed, Pat Perez and Talor Gooch.
With a total of "-24", they overtook the team of the Koepka brothers, Brooks and Chase, along with Jason Kokrak and Uihlein. Cameron Smith (born August 18, 1993 in Brisbane) is an Australian golfer. He takes to the PGA Tour of Australasia and PGA Tour circuits, and has eight professional successes including the prestigious British Open in 2022.
Cameron Smith was born in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. he grew up there in the footsteps of his father, a golf player, Des Smith. He became a golf professional in 2013 and declared that his goal was to be the best player in the world2.
He has been coached by Grant Field since 2013 who is paid $90 an hour, just as humble as Smith. He first joined the PGA Tour of Australasia circuit and the Asian circuit "Asian Tour", and revealed himself by winning a fourth place at the 2015 American Open during which he made an eagle on the 18th on the 72nd hole with two strokes.
of the winner Jordan Spieth. This performance then allows him to integrate full-time on the "PGA Tour" circuit from the year 20162. He won on July 17, 2022 at the British Open by winning the Old Course record (-20) held by Tiger Woods since 20001.
This year 2022 he achieved many leading performances with a victory at the Players Championship (considered the fifth major of the season) and a third place at the Augusta1 Masters. This series of performance allows him to reach second place in the world on July 18, 2022 behind the American Scottie Scheffler.
Although he was four strokes behind leader Rory McIlroy on the last day, Smith won with a one stroke lead over Cameron Young1. The last Australian to win the British Open was Greg Norman twenty-eight years ago.