Cameron Smith. I was a real follower and believer, but he's seriously doing my head in. Can hardly hit a fairway, so can hardly hit a green. Not just at the Scottish Open. Anywhere.
Sure has a really good short game and strong putter ... but he absolutely needs them because ... see above. Otherwise he'd be lucky to make world top 100.
Once again, starts well. Got it to -4 at one stage of Rd.1, ended up -2, with Tringale leading on -9. The longer he plays in this and his last tournament, the more shots he surrenders. Just goes backwards at a rate of knots while his playing partners cruise past him easily. Why? See above.
Does he have much idea of how he hits it? Seems to mostly draw the ball, but fails to allow for it. Ends up in stupid positions so he cannot find the green, just more trouble. And even when he gets it on the fairway with a decent drive occasionally, then long irons draw too wide too and miss the green in hopeless positions or leaves him a really difficult putt. So bogies follow.
Can fade the ball too, but same thing; he overdoes it into serious trouble. See his losing playoff in 2021 against Tony Finou - a guy he was very capable of beating. Faded it oob on the first playoff hole from memory. Match over. Only had to hit the fairway to be able to apply huge pressure with his short game.
I'm not sure he has much idea at all of where his ball is going.
The Masters - couldn't take advantage when opportunity presented. Then capitulated.
What on Earth does he practice? How is it a coach cannot correct his waywardness - with all that $$$? Can he not learn some course management?
That's it. I'm sick of the capitulations by Aussie golfers. We seem to really lack cajones at the elite level. Even a good club golfer knows how to scramble pars to avoid going backwards out of the comp.
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