THE PLAYERS Championship 2022, TPC Sawgrass, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL: 10-14 March
Cameron Smith's win at The Players, and news referencing family, coach and caddie
From PGA TOUR, by Sean Martin:
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. – Cameron Smith started the year by setting a PGA TOUR scoring record (and beating the top player in the world in the process). Two months later, he won the largest prize in the TOUR’s history, taking $3.6 million from THE PLAYERS’ record $20 million purse.
How’s your 2022 going? Read more
From PGA TOUR, by Cameron Morfit:
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 old man when he was 12.
How he came by the toughness part, though, is harder to pinpoint. Read more
From Golf Australia, by Jimmy Emanuel:
Plenty was made of the presence on the ground at TPC Sawgrass of Cameron Smith’s mum Sharon and sister Melanie as he won The Players. However, another of his team could almost not be further away.
Smith’s long time coach, Grant Field, was sitting in the clubhouse at Concord Golf Club in Sydney as he prepared to put in some work with players ahead of this week’s NSW Open before heading back to Queensland.
Before heading to the range at Concord then out for a practice round with a group of his charges, Louis Dobbelaar, Jed Morgan, Jake Higginbottom and Dimi Papadatos, Field sat and watched as Smith played the back nine. Read more
From 1News.nz, by AAP:
Australian golf star Cameron Smith has scored the biggest win of his career, taking out The Players Championship in Florida in record-setting fashion, with help from his Kiwi caddie.
Smith carded a birdie-filled and dramatic six-under-par 66 to record a steely one-shot victory at TPC Sawgrass and join a who's who of golf greats on the honour roll.
He finished at 13 under for the tournament, with plucky surprise third-round leader Anirban Lahiri settling for outright second after closing with a 69. Read more
From ABC.net.au, by Andrew McGarry:
Australia's Cameron Smith has clinched a $5 million payday, coming from behind to win the so-called "fifth major", the Players Championship.
The Australian made a big charge in the final round at TPC Sawgrass: He was 7-under for the round, coming to the last, leading by three.
But he hit his tee shot into the pine needles on the right-hand side on the last and his second into the water before making a bogey five on the par-four 18th. Read more
From Golf Digest, by Dan Rapaport:
PONTE VEDRA BEACH — The week that would not end finally did. Cameron Smith won a peculiar Players Championship with a roller coaster final round, birdieing his first four holes and getting up-and-down at the last for a clinching bogey. There is much to discuss. Here are 18 Parting Thoughts from TPC Sawgrass. Read more
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