Australia’s Cameron Smith leads after second round of the 2022 British Open
July 16, 2022

During the Golf Channel broadcast of the second round of the 2022 British Open, golf broadcaster Mike Tirico stated that Cameron Smith, the golfer, was not the most famous Australian athlete with the name Cam Smith, and that belonged to the former Melbourne Storm hooker and halfback from Logan, Queensland. It is fair to say that if Cameron Smith, the golfer from Brisbane, wins at St. Andrews this weekend, he will have passed the other Cam Smith in global notoriety. After Friday, he is halfway there.
After the first round, Smith was tied for third place with England’s Robert Dinwiddie, and three strokes back of the leader Cameron Young, of the United States. Now after a score of eight-under-par 64, it is Australia’s Cameron Smith who is in the driver’s seat to win his first career major.
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The native of Brisbane who already this year had a sizzling, record-breaking -34 in winning the Sentry Tournament of Champions, and then broke the bank with a whopping $3.6 million in earnings in winning the Players Championship, is now in the lead at the 2022 British Open himself at -13. He leads American Cameron Young by two strokes (-11), and Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy and Norway’s Viktor Hovland by three strokes each (-10).
In the second round, Smith had six birdies and one eagle. He actually birdied the first three holes of his round, birdied the seventh, eighth, and 10th holes, and then eagled the 14th hole. The eagle putt on the 14th hole was 64 feet.
Of the four golfers in contention, there is only one major champion. That is McIlroy, who has won the 2011 United States Open, the 2012 and 2014 PGA Championship, and the 2014 British Open.
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