New chapter of the FedEx Cup playoffs coming to Wilmington Country Club. After Will Zalatoris’ first cheers at the St. Jude Championship, the BMW Championship arrives to further shake up what are the three most important weeks of golf on the other side of the Ocean.
The field, theoretically, would be 70 players, but in this case there will be two missing.
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The reasons are different: one, Cameron Smith, is the most talked about without a shadow of a doubt. The Australian could also have attacked Scottie Scheffler’s world number 1, but pulled back due to a hip injury which, at this point, cuts him out.
Of course, he does not also cut out the speeches related to his potential arrival in LIV Golf after the FedEx Cup, but this is a side topic, in fact. As for the second absent, the Englishman Tommy Fleetwood, the reason is much simpler, and linked to personal reasons.
We remain so, in fact, at 68, from which the 30 who will compete in the Tour Championship with its so different formula will come out. Zalatoris, with his latest success, moved on to lead the overall standings, ahead of Scheffler and, skipping Smith, Sam Burns and Tony Finau.
Cameron Smith was born in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. he grew up there in the footsteps of his father, a golf player, Des Smith. He became a golf professional in 2013 and declared that his goal was to be the best player in the world2.
He has been coached by Grant Field since 2013 who is paid $90 an hour, just as humble as Smith. He first joined the PGA Tour of Australasia circuit and the Asian circuit “Asian Tour”, and revealed himself by winning a fourth place at the 2015 American Open during which he made an eagle on the 18th on the 72nd hole with two shots.
of the winner Jordan Spieth. This performance then allows him to integrate full-time on the “PGA Tour” circuit from the year 2016. He won on July 17, 2022 at the British Open by winning the Old Course record (-20) held by Tiger Woods since 20001.
This year 2022 he achieved many leading performances with a victory at the Players Championship (considered the fifth major of the season) and a third place at the Augusta1 Masters. This series of performance allows him to reach second place in the world on July 18, 2022 behind the American Scottie Scheffler.
Although he was four strokes behind leader Rory McIlroy on the last day, Smith won with a one stroke lead over Cameron Young1. The last Australian to win the British Open was Greg Norman twenty-eight years ago.
