Cameron Smith

Ask a Stanley Cup-winning hockey player how many beers fit inside the trophy, and they'll likely know the answer right away (it's 14, for those wondering).

A bottle of Jameson is right around 25 ounces, meaning two 12-ounce beers, and maybe a few more sips of another, would fit inside the jug. Earlier this week, Shane Lowry told us on the "Be Right" podcast that an entire bottle of Jameson fit in the jug when he won it in 2019. "I'll probably have about 20 Claret Jugs tonight."

All of Scotland was rooting for Rory McIlroy. Then Cameron Smith went on a tear at the home of golf that will live on for generations.

The hotel room he and his family are staying in overlooks the 18th. But it was how he navigated the 13th that led him to believe he was going to win the championship. It has all helped him stay calm and ready for the championship-winning moments that he eased through Sunday. He turned to the putter, which left him a 5-footer to make it five birdies in row. "I felt good all day, and those putts just started going in on that back nine and just got a lot of momentum going." For that to go in, I think, that was it for me." That was his nemesis Saturday. On Sunday, he found the fairway, and then hit a beautiful approach shot from 184 yards to leave him with an 18-foot birdie putt. "I think I was really frustrated [Saturday] with how the round went," he said. On the 11th and 12th he holed out from 16 feet and 11 feet, respectively. "I don't have any family here," he said. But the minute McIlroy's drive came up short of the green, and his attempt to hole out for an eagle to force a playoff slipped past, Smith emerged from the hut as the winner of golf's oldest championship. He regretted how he had attacked the 13th with gusto, instead of playing it carefully -- and walked away with double bogey.

Aged 28, Smith is the first Australian in almost three decades to win the British Open since Greg Norman in 1993 – the world number six showed nerves of ...

The Australian shot 8-under 64 to overturn a four-shot deficit in the final round. It's his first major title.

From 80 feet away, his pace up the slope and toward the cup was close to perfect, leaving him a tap-in birdie to finish at 20-under 268. His 8-under 64 was the lowest final round by a champion in the 30 times golf's oldest champion has been played at St. Andrews. He couldn't make a putt early. He couldn't hit it close enough late. The stage was set for McIlroy to end his eight-year drought in the majors and cap off a week of celebration at the home of golf in the 150th Open. ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — Cameron Smith charged his way into history on the Old Course, a Sunday stunner at St. Andrews that sent the Australian to his first major by overcoming Rory McIlroy to win the British Open.

Cameron Smith stole the claret jug from Rory McIlroy's grasp, carding six birdies Sunday at St. Andrews and capping a 64-64 weekend to win the 150th Open ...

"I was expecting I was going to hang in there for a little bit longer. Yeah, just really proud of how I kind of knuckled down today and managed to get it done." What it means: Coming into this 150th Open, McIlroy spoke of the significance of winning a claret jug at St. Andrews’ prized Old Course. He called the achievement the “holy grail” of professional golf, so though McIlroy already possessed one Open title, in 2014 at Royal Liverpool, he wanted this one badly. Smith added a birdie at the last with a closing 8-under 64, but he actually won this championship a hole earlier, at the par-4 Road Hole, where he piped a drive down the fairway only to smother one left and well short of the green. If I had made the birdies there from good positions, it probably would have been a different story." Yeah, managed to get away with a 4 there." "I kind of had to draw a 9-iron in there. It's one that I feel like I let slip away, but there will be other opportunities." Yeah, just stuck to what I was doing. No bunkers, no three-putts, take care of the drivable par 4s and take care of the par 5s. "It's just one of those days where I played a really controlled round of golf. And for good measure, he didn’t miss a green in regulation.

The Australian, who tied for third at the Masters in April, overtook Rory McIlroy with a brilliant final round to capture his first major championship.

But he missed the Open the next year, the most recent one to be contested at St. Andrews, because of an injury, and faced years of disappointments. McIlroy, who was born in Northern Ireland and played for Ireland at the Tokyo Olympics, has won a British Open, raising the claret jug in 2014 at Royal Liverpool. Back then, he seemed indomitable. Smith calmly positioned himself and stroked the ball into the cup to retake the lead at 20 under. I’ve got to string four good rounds together, and hopefully at the end of the week, that’s good enough to win.” With his brilliant putting and calm demeanor, he led the tournament after two rounds but then fell four shots off the lead with a 1-over-par 73 on Saturday, a round that included a double bogey on the par-4 13th when he went for an ill-advised second shot from the edge of a bunker. But Woods, then in his prime, won by eight strokes, turning the final round into a processional. “And this one definitely makes it worth it.” He won the Players Championship in March, his second PGA Tour victory this season. But with his remarkable final-round 64 on Sunday, Smith broke through at an iconic place. Beginning on No. 10, Smith, who began the day at 12 under par, birdied five consecutive holes, while McIlroy’s birdie putts too often fell short, his advantage slimming and then disappearing. Cameron Smith and his putter proved too much. Smith, an Australian with a wispy mustache and mullet, has a retro air, and he often had his way with the historic course, holing birdie after birdie after birdie after birdie after birdie (yes, five in a row) on the back nine despite the pressure that goes with trying to win one’s first major.

Cameron Smith won the British Open for his first major title. He shot a bogey-free eight-under 64 to overturn a four-shot deficit in the final round.

He also won the British Open that year, a PGA Championship in 2012 and the U.S. Open in 2011. He hasn’t won one in the 29 majors since his PGA Championship victory in 2014. “I’ve always said that if I won a tournament or did something good, I would cut it off,” he said. His role in the upstart league is that controversial. His eagle chip bounced past the hole. I’m going to fall apart here, I know,” an emotional Smith said during the trophy presentation.

Cameron Smith came from four shots back to win The Open at St. Andrews for his first major championship title.

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He birdied the first four holes of TPC Sawgrass’ back nine en route to that win. He just has the balls and courage to stand up and do it.” “He loves to fight,” Pinfold said. “To win an Open Championship in itself is probably going to be a golfer's highlight in their career. Many suggested he should have called Smith off a risky shot where he attempted to hit his ball while standing in a bunker with the ball above his feet. Another of those moments came Sunday at the infamous Road Hole, which ranks as the TOUR’s toughest each time The Open comes to St. Andrews. Smith’s approach came up short, and the hole’s famous greenside bunker stood between his ball and his target. When he calmly birdied the last to post 20 under, one shot better than playing partner Cameron Young, only a McIlroy eagle could beat him. “Never a doubt,” Smith joked about the match at his pre-tournament press conference afterwards. One State of Origin game fell on The Open’s eve, and Smith insisted on playing his last nine-hole practice round early in the morning so he could stream the match on his phone at St. Andrews. At St. Andrews, he matched that mark for majors and recorded the lowest score ever shot in an Open at St. Andrews, a 20-under 268. Smith is from Queensland – the northeastern state in Australia known for its beautiful beaches, the Great Barrier Reef, and an ethos of never-say-die toughness. Starting Sunday four shots off the lead was enough of a challenge.

The question seemed inevitable and yet Cameron Smith acted miffed that he was asked during his British Open winner's press conference.

"To be honest, I planned the schedule which got up to about now, and then we'll just reassess and go again," he said. Gaining the Japanese star would be a boon for LIV's efforts to gain an international TV deal, especially in Japan, where Matsuyama is a top attraction. LIV Golf kept a low profile this week, but the Saudi-backed league is expected to ramp up its spending spree with more high-profile signings. "I just won the British Open, and you're asking about that?" I'm here to win golf tournaments." "I think that's pretty, not that good."

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When he drained a 10-footer for par, Laura Davies remarked: “If he goes on to win, that’s the best two-putt of his life.” Smith was the obvious threat, his putter cutting the air and the atmosphere like a hot knife through butterscotch. But the early vibe of hope and possibility faded momentarily as they approached the turn, and when he missed a 12-foot birdie on the 9th that he would have taken on either of the first two days, a sense of tightness fell on his shoulders. With seven and eight holes left for the main players, there were at least four possible endings to the story once Dustin Johnson squandered a birdie chance up ahead on 14. Then Smith and Young made their move on 10, cutting the deficit to two shots with rock-solid birdies that injected the closing charge with bags of electricity under cloying skies. Yet it had gone strangely cold on day three, as he struggled against the course and his own game after rounds of 67 and 64, drifting out to a 73, with just two birdies, a double bogey and bogey.

Cameron Smith's dad is kicking himself that he didn't make the journey to St. Andrews to see his son win the 150th British Open.

He’s such a nice bloke — always has been — very giving of his time to both the members and the juniors,” McKay said. McKay helped get the club’s Cameron Smith Junior Classic started in 2017 as a qualifying tournament for the Greg Norman Junior Masters event. The club was expecting more than a few beers to be poured in celebration. “It’s been a while for us to get an Open championship.” He went ahead and done it.” He was four back.

Making five birdies in the opening five holes of the back nine, a clutch birdie at the 72nd hole gave him enough of a buffer to secure the Claret Jug, with PGA ...

Gotta feel for @McIlroyRory .. but he didn’t lose @TheOpen .. Cameron Smith won it! Cam Smith earned it, but man that's tough for @McIlroyRory. Putter just wasn't good enough today unfortunately. Cameron Smith played great & is a deserving winner but…Rory McIlroy led him by 4 shots, HIT EVERY GREEN (only hitting 34 non-putts), did not 3 putt, & lost by 2 shots. @McIlroyRory choosing to speak (as he usually does) after another heartbreaking finish in a major speaks to who he is as a person. See more See more See more See more See more See more See more See more

All of Scotland was rooting for Rory McIlroy. Then Cameron Smith went on a tear at the home of golf that will live on for generations.

The hotel room he and his family are staying in overlooks the 18th. But it was how he navigated the 13th that led him to believe he was going to win the championship. It has all helped him stay calm and ready for the championship-winning moments that he eased through Sunday. He turned to the putter, which left him a 5-footer to make it five birdies in row. "I felt good all day, and those putts just started going in on that back nine and just got a lot of momentum going." For that to go in, I think, that was it for me." That was his nemesis Saturday. On Sunday, he found the fairway, and then hit a beautiful approach shot from 184 yards to leave him with an 18-foot birdie putt. "I think I was really frustrated [Saturday] with how the round went," he said. On the 11th and 12th he holed out from 16 feet and 11 feet, respectively. "I don't have any family here," he said. But the minute McIlroy's drive came up short of the green, and his attempt to hole out for an eagle to force a playoff slipped past, Smith emerged from the hut as the winner of golf's oldest championship. He regretted how he had attacked the 13th with gusto, instead of playing it carefully -- and walked away with double bogey.

Smith is a wizard on a golf course; he is also a blue-collar Queenslander who likes XXXX Gold and his F1 simulator.

He is both one of us and one of them – a golfer and a wizard. He lives in a waterside mansion in Florida. Yet Smith’s dad says there’s no “no mug” in his boy. At the post-Open press conference he was asked how many beers would fit in the Claret Jug. “I’m going to guess two cans of beer,” Smith replied. He is ranked sixth in the world with a bullet. Today he lives a high-profile life in the United States, performing each week on a massive stage. And if it cost us money, it cost us money. He had only ever wanted to be a professional. Although he would not think himself cool – his upbringing would not allow it. And so here he is, Australia’s latest golf sensation. He didn’t see it that way. To me it was a simple and great decision. And thus legions of us sat in front of televisions so very early on Monday morning and watched Smith, leading by one over local favourite Rory McIlroy, half-chunk his approach shot on the famous and difficult 17th hole.

Rory McIlroy, in search of his first major since 2014, is tied for the lead with Norway's Viktor Hovland entering Sunday's final round at St. Andrews.

Brian Harman, Kevin Kisner, Dean Burmester, Abraham Ancer, Sadom Kaewkanjana and Xander Schauffele are all at 11 under. Cameron Smith, who led heading into Saturday’s third round, has two birdies on the front to pull within three shots of the lead. First-round leader Cameron Young is also three back, while 2013 champion Adam Scott, 2017 champ Jordan Spieth, Dustin Johnson, Tommy Fleetwood and Si Woo Kim are five back.

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.

He's got a big set of balls on him,” said Cameron Smith's caddie, Sam Pinfold. “He's a real battler and a bulldog."

He’s not afraid to play aggressively, and on Sunday that made all the difference. His creativity around the greens was born during his childhood when he used to love to take a sand wedge and make a golf ball spin to a stop on the makeshift backyard green designed by his father. He’ll hit a bad shot and it just doesn’t seem to bother him, because he knows that he’s going to hit a great next shot. The way he plays he knows he’s got to make birdies and he puts the blinkers on and goes.” “He’s got a big set of balls on him,” said Smith’s caddie, Sam Pinfold. “He’s a real battler and a bulldog. At the 2019 Presidents Cup, Smith hinted at the breakthrough that was to come with a convincing victory over Justin Thomas in his Sunday singles match.

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.

The stage was set for McIlroy to end his eight-year drought in the majors instead, Smith stole the show by running off five straight birdies.

Smith, who saved par on the 17th with a 10-foot putt, was at the front of the 18th green with his tee shot. From 80 feet away, his pace up the slope and toward the cup was close to perfect, leaving him a tap-in birdie to finish at 20-under 268. His 8-under 64 was the lowest final round by a champion in the 30 times golf’s oldest championship has been played at St. Andrews.

Fresh from winning the 150th edition of The Open Championship, Cameron Smith failed to put to bed rumours surrounding his possible move to rival golf tour, ...

Smith is arguably the world's best putter and his skills on the green proved the difference on Sunday. It's just unreal." Speaking to reporters following his one-stroke victory, Smith took exception to a question regarding his future and the LIV connections.

Cameron Smith was in no mood to talk about LIV Golf rumors after he won the Open Championship on Sunday in St. Andrews.

Is there any truth in that?” “Cam, apologies for having to bring this up in these circumstances, but your name continues to be mentioned, has been mentioned to me this week about LIV Golf,” the reporter said. Is there any truth to suggestions that you might be signing?”

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“I feel as though I can hit a lot of different scoring shots into and around the green.” He went on to add, “For me, the biggest thing that stuck out was the control coming out of the rough and around the greens. It might be staying with the same head style, b ut trying a different neck or staying with the same neck and going to a different head style.” Like a growing number of players, Smith has a four-wedge setup but brings additional wedges to each event and swaps clubs in and out of his bag based on the course conditions. The club has a finished length of 35 inches and has 3 degrees of loft. “When he first showed up on tour, we focused on how to launch the ball farther and higher,” Van Wezenbeeck said. At the British Open, Cameron Smith made a course-specific decision to go with only one fairway wood, a Titleist TSi2 fitted with a Fujikura Ventus TR Blue 8X shaft. Smith put two weights in the track, one in the toe and one in the heel, according to J.J. Van Wezenbeeck, Titleist’s director of player promotions. Smith’s pitching wedge and gap wedge both have an F Grind sole that is fairly straight, making the clubs extensions of his irons. He brought both clubs to Europe and put the TSR2 in play at the Scottish Open two weeks ago. “It was about increasing the dynamic loft, to make the shape of a TSi3 act like a TSi2,” Van Wezenbeeck said. The TR version of the Ventus Blue shaft is slightly stiffer than the standard Blue, and produces less spin and a lower flight. He woke up Monday morning ranked No. 2 in the world, a major winner and only the second golfer in history to win the Players Championship and British Open in the same year, joining Jack Nicklaus.

It pays to play well in major golf championships, just ask Cameron Smith, who just won the 150th British Open.

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