Cameron Smith Champion The Open 2022
The Open championship helped Smith achieve memorable achievements after nine years of professional fighting. He first carried Major right now considered the source of Golf - Old Par72 Stadium of St. Andrews in Scotland - by touching the final record compared to the Paraman in the prestigious quartet, thereby becoming the first Australian golfer to the most about The Open in the past 29 years.
Major champions at -20 before Smith include Jason Day at PGA Championship 2015, Henrik Stenson at The Open 2016 and Dustin Johnson at Masters 2020. The last time Golf Australia had a representative of Claret Jug in 1993, when "fish Great white fat "Greg Norman about -13 points and abandoned the runner -up Nick Faldo two sticks at Royal St. George’s Par70 in the UK.
To win The Open, Smith also came back like his predecessor but the distance was farther. In 1993, Norman scored -7 after three rounds, Faldo at the top of the table was only one stick. And Smith this year through three rounds with the score of -12, the first to four sticks with the goal of clinging to Rory Mcilroy and Viktor Hovland.
In the final round, Smith and Cameron Young - rookie PGA Tour started the penultimate, before the Mcilroy - Hovland pair. With Birdie hole 11, Smith to -16, Young -15. At that time, Mcilroy was in hole 10, also took Birdie to -18 while Hovland had dropped -15. At the 14th hole, Smith again Birdie and monopolized the peak of the table at the point -19, while Mcilroy still -18.
The key time on the journey of Smith to the championship was when he was trapped directly from the road to the 17 Par4 pit after the second shot and needed to hold PAR to hold the -19 point. In that situation, Smith was not with an iron stick but used a stick to put the ball around the chronic trap to enter the green and then ended the desired hole with a three -meter wiper.
When Smith kept the penultimate Par pit, Young reached -17, Mcilroy was still stuck at -18, Hovland -14. In the 18 Par4 hole, Smith continued to record Birdie, thereby determining the final -20 milestone for The Open 2022, and Young took Eagle to finish -19.
The whole match Smith did not bogey, hit 64 sticks, recorded eight Birdie in which continuously from the hole 10 to 14.
Cup Claret Jug returned to Smith, Young was in the end, after Mcilroy took the ball to cross the 18 hole in the chip looking Eagle 33 Yard. If it entered the hole, Mcilroy fought three auxiliary with Smith, calculating the total score. If draw, both will determine the victory and lose through each pit (Sudden Death-Playoff).
Hovland holds the last hole to stand T4 (-14).
In the $ 14 million prize fund, Young received US $ 1.455 million, Mcilroy received $ 933,000 for third place and Hovland was 654,000 USD.
The number one world Mcilroy has not ended eight years of thirst for the title of Major since winning The Open 2014 - the fourth prestigious championship in the current 21 PGA Tour Cup collection.
This season, Smith is 28 years old, as a great victory in the top arena because in addition to The Open, he has twice returned to PGA Tour - Tournament of Champions and The Players which is considered the fifth Major. Particularly for these three tournaments, Mr. Linh a total of 7.5 million USD, and the bonus from the beginning of the season, after 16 tournaments are nearly 9.85 million USD.
