Smith Keen To Savour A Fourth Sunshine State Success

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The last occasion GolfByTourMiss spoke with Cam Smith was just last month at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship at St. Andrews.

In fact, Smith was celebrating two wins on Home of Golf soil as I spoke to him just a few metres away from the first tee at the famed Old Course.

Of course, the proud Aussie had stunningly captured the 2022 Open Championship and working with the R & A, as I was two years ago, I was assigned to walk with the media contingent over that final round of the celebratory 150th staging of golf’s oldest major.

To cap off a brilliant week, I found myself shaking hands with Cam minutes after his triumph, and as he walked to the scorer’s hut.

Fast forward to October 2025 and I am again at the Old Course and on this occasion interviewing Cam following the close of the third and final round of the badly weather-affected, rain shortened Alfred Dunhill Links Championship.

It was Smith’s first return to St. Andrews since that memorable day while on this second occasion it was the Sunday afernoon of the DP World Tour tournament and on a day many hours earlier back home in Smith’s beloved Brisbane Australia the Brisbane Bronco’s, for a first occasion in 19-years had wrapped-up the Australian Rugby League (NRL) season premiership.  Smith was delighted

Smith learnt of the Bronco’s triumph while playing the fourth hole of the Old Course and on route to a closing round of 70 for an eventual distant share of 71st place.

Now ahead of this week’s BWM Australian PGA, Smith spoke about that Sunday afternoon and also his joy in catching-up this week in a tournament promotion with members of the winning Bronco’s team

“I was actually in Scotland playing the Dunhill Links and if I had known that the Grand Final was on the same week as the Dunhill Links, maybe I wouldn’t have played,” he said.

“I was actually back here a few weeks earlier. I was at home for the first round of the finals and I was saying – I’d come to training a couple of times – I was saying to the boys, if you make the final, I’ll come back.

“And I had no idea that I was playing the Dunhill Links the same week. So yeah, so I was in Scotland. We had a rain delay on the Saturday, so our round got pushed to Sunday, which was the day of the final. I was warming up watching it and then I teed off at half-time so I wasn’t too happy about the timing, but kind of had my phone in the bag on silent and was keeping updates as the round went on.”

Of more importance now for Smith is that he’s looking to break a winless drought going back to his 150th Open Championship victory.

Cam Smith signing a commemorative 2022 Open Championship flag – Image GolfByTourMiss

He arrived back to his beloved Brisbane after missing the halfway cut in last week’s PIF Saudi International and while, no doubt disappointed, Smith is no stranger to success at Royal Queensland as three of his four DP World Tour wins have been at the BMW PGA Chamionship in the state of Queensland – 2017, 2018 and 2022.

“I think the PGA has done a great job particularly of this tournament the last few years.ave gone up a step or two in the last probably four or five years,” Smith said.

“Particularly I think since being at Royal Queensland. It seems like there’s been a real kind of sense of a big tournament, which is kind of cool.

“I think the next couple of weeks they’ve done a really good job of getting guys down and making the field stronger and deeper and how they used to be.

“I guess you hear of the golden age of Australian golf 20-30 years ago. I think we’re getting right back up there again.”

Hoping to join only Kel Nagle (6), Billy Dunk (5) and Robert Allenby (4) as a four-time BMW Australian PGA winner, Smith is just happy to be at home in his favourite place celebrating Brisbane’s own golden age.

“Being in Brisbane, I love this place more than anything. It’s cool to be a part of everything here.”

 

 



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