{"id":1625,"date":"2023-11-24T14:52:28","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T14:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/australian-pga-championship-cameron-smith-close-to-tears-after-missing-cut\/"},"modified":"2023-11-24T14:52:28","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T14:52:28","slug":"australian-pga-championship-cameron-smith-close-to-tears-after-missing-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/australian-pga-championship-cameron-smith-close-to-tears-after-missing-cut\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian PGA Championship: Cameron Smith close to tears after missing cut"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Cameron Smith won the 2022 Australian PGA Championship by three strokes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<\/thead>\n\n\n\n\n
-12 <\/strong>M Lee (Aus); <\/span>-11 <\/strong>A Scott (Aus); <\/span>-10<\/strong> J Lyras (Aus); <\/span>-8<\/strong> L Herbert (Aus), J Moscatel (Spa), C Luck (Aus)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Selected others: <\/strong>-5<\/strong> F Kennedy (Eng); <\/span>-4<\/strong> A Fitzpatrick (Eng), C Purcell (Ire); <\/span>+5<\/strong> D Howell (Eng); <\/span>+9<\/strong> C Smith (Aus)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Defending champion Cameron Smith missed the cut at the Fortinet Australian PGA Championship by nine shots, leaving him close to tears.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The 30-year-old former Open champion carded a second-round 78 to finish nine over in his home city of Brisbane.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Min Woo Lee, who shot a five-under-par 66 to move to 12 under overall, leads fellow Australian Adam Scott by a shot.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Australia has been so good to me, there’s no reason to perform like that. Unacceptable,” said an emotional Smith.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I’ve performed under pressure before and it’s not acceptable, a bit upsetting actually. I know what I’m doing, it’s just going out there and committing to something is another thing.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Smith, who <\/span>won the 150th Open Championship<\/span><\/a> at St Andrews in July 2022, made a double bogey at the 10th and bogeys on the final two holes at the Royal Queensland Golf Club.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Australian, who plies his trade on the LIV Golf circuit, agreed he could not remember a worse round as a professional.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Yeah, no words,” added Smith, who won the Australian PGA in 2017, 2018 and 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n

Australian compatriot Lee rattled off six birdies in his 66, while former US Masters champion Scott is a shot behind after a 65 which also contained six birdies but, unlike Lee, no dropped shots.<\/span><\/p>\n

“It’s always nice to have a bogey-free round, I probably haven’t had many of them this year,” Scott said.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I feel like my swing from the tee to the green is feeling better than it has for a while and that’s a nice thing for me.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Spaniard Joel Moscatel, who equalled the course record when he shot a 63 in the first round, remains in contention at eight under after a 71.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Cameron Smith won the 2022 Australian PGA Championship by three strokes -12 M Lee (Aus); -11 A Scott (Aus); -10 J Lyras (Aus); -8 L Herbert (Aus), J Moscatel (Spa), C Luck (Aus) Selected others: -5 F Kennedy (Eng); -4 A Fitzpatrick (Eng), C Purcell (Ire); +5 D Howell (Eng); +9 C Smith (Aus) Full […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-golf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1627,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625\/revisions\/1627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}