Our man Matt Cleary followed Cameron Smith for 18 holes in round one of the PGA Championship on Thursday, and observed that while the man’s mid-iron play isn’t (yet) laser-guided, his short game garnered him six up-and-downs, two sand saves, four birdies, and a score of two-under 69 in the wind at Royal Queensland.
It all began with a late-night joke over a few beers. Luke Brown, a 44-year-old Sunshine Coast father of three, quipped to mates at the pub one evening, “Hey, what if I tried to go pro in golf?”
Marc Leishman doesn’t want you to mistake his laid-back manner for indifference as the Australian favourite seeks to end his hometown title drought.
Connor McKinney was born in Scotland, raised in Australia, and has an accent that hints at both countries, and even a couple others. Regardless, after thriving over three brutal stages of Q-School, we can and will claim him as “our” latest DP World Tour card carrier.
Ryan Fox is using his Australian PGA Championship return to plot a Presidents Cup ambush, admitting he still feels the sting of being overlooked for duties three years ago.
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