Cameron Smith

In May, Smith, partnered with Jonas Blixt, won the Zurich Classic of New Orleans, the first team event on the PGA Tour since 1981.

The pair did not make a bogey during the tournament and defeated Scott Brown and Kevin Kisner in a playoff.

It was Smith's first career PGA Tour win.

Cameron Smith (born 18 August 1993) is an Australian professional golfer who currently plays on the LIV Golf League.

He won the 2022 Open Championship, and has won five other tournaments on the PGA Tour, including the 2022 Players Championship.

Smith was born in Brisbane, Queensland, and grew up in the northern suburb of Bray Park where he attended Pine Rivers State High School throughout his upbringing.

As a two-year-old, Smith began playing at Wantima Country Club, a small golf course in the northern suburb of Brisbane while his father Des worked as a printer and was a club captain at the club.

Smith's mother, Sharon, worked at the local department store.

Smith has a sister, Mel.

34 under par beat the previous mark of 31 under par set by Ernie Els at the same tournament in 2003.

In March, Smith won The Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass, becoming the fifth Australian to win the tournament; having hit his second shot on the final hole into the water, Smith managed to get up and down to make a bogey and finish one stroke ahead of Anirban Lahiri.

Smith turned professional in 2013 and played on the PGA Tour of Australasia.

Smith played on the Asian Tour in 2014, finishing in the top-10 seven times and finishing 5th on the Order of Merit.

His best finish was tied for second at the 2014 CIMB Niaga Indonesian Masters.

Smith's first PGA Tour event was the CIMB Classic in October 2014, which was a co-sanctioned event with the Asian Tour; he tied for 5th.

He was tied for second at the 2015 Coca-Cola Queensland PGA Championship and at the 2016 Emirates Australian Open.

In April, Smith tied for 15th in the RBC Heritage, playing on a sponsor's exemption.

After qualifying for the 2015 U.S. Open, his top-4 finish earned him an invitation to the 2016 Masters Tournament.

The finish also earned Smith Special Temporary Membership on the PGA Tour for the remainder of the 2015 season.

Smith earned his 2015–16 PGA Tour card by earning enough as a non-member to have been in the top 125 on the money list: his best three events would have been sufficient.

In July, Smith won his first major championship at the 150th Open Championship, played at the Old Course at St Andrews.

In 2016 Smith finished 157th in the FedEx points list.

His performance in the Web.com Tour Finals, where he was runner-up in the Nationwide Children's Hospital Championship, allowed him to return to the PGA Tour for 2017.

He had two top-10 finishes on the 2017 PGA Tour, tying for 6th place at the Valero Texas Open and for 7th at the Wyndham Championship and finished 46th in the FedEx Cup standings.

He started the new PGA Tour season by tying for 5th place in the CIMB Classic in Malaysia and finishing 3rd in the CJ Cup in South Korea in late 2017.

Smith continued his good form by finishing 4th in the Emirates Australian Open and then winning the Australian PGA Championship the following week, beating Jordan Zunic in a playoff.

In December, Smith defended his title at the Australian PGA Championship, winning by two strokes over Marc Leishman.

In December, Smith played on the International team at the 2019 Presidents Cup at Royal Melbourne Golf Club in Australia.

The U.S. team won 16–14.

Smith went 1–1–1 including a win in his Sunday singles match against Justin Thomas.

In January, Smith won the Sony Open in Hawaii in a playoff over Brendan Steele; his first individual victory on the PGA Tour.

In finishing tied for runner-up to Dustin Johnson at the 2020 Masters in November, Smith became the first golfer in Masters history to shoot four rounds in the 60s (67-68-69-69).

In April, Smith won the Zurich Classic of New Orleans for the second time.

This time he was partnered with fellow countryman Marc Leishman.

The duo won in a playoff over Louis Oosthuizen and Charl Schwartzel.

Smith qualified for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and competed in the men's competition in July/August 2021.

He scored −14 across the four rounds and finished tenth.

In spite of shooting 66 in the third and fourth rounds, he was still out of medal contention.

In January, Smith won the 2022 Sentry Tournament of Champions at Kapalua Resort on Maui, Hawaii.

Smith shot a PGA Tour record of 34 under par winning by one stroke over world number one Jon Rahm.