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Sunday 2 December 2018European TourYear in Review
Smith wins Australian PGA Championship
RACV Royal Pines Resort, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia · Cameron Smith’s win no. 2 on the European Tour · purse A$1,500,000 AUD
The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.
The weather
13 h 40 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 84° up at noon, and that night a waning crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).
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The name over time
Not yet traced: its earlier names, sponsors and courses come with research.
The ones it got away from
- Marc Leishman AUS · 274Overturned Smith's three-shot overnight lead to lead on the front nine, then dropped shots at the 14th and 16th as Smith played the back nine in 33. Cameron Smith defends Australian PGA Championship title by two strokes - ESPN (Reuters)
, 71 made it
Same week
Nothing else in our record that week.
DP World Tour event
Australian PGA Championship
RACV Royal Pines Resort, RACV Royal Pines Resort, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
4 of 5 researched
Winner
Cameron Smith
Runner-up not yet researched.
From the papers
Reuters via ESPN (from a European Tour video)
2 December 2018
I'm lost for words, I'm hopeless at this.
Reuters via ESPN
2 December 2018
I'm obviously disappointed I didn't get it over the line but glad that I gave it a run there and made it pretty interesting.
Reuters via ESPN
2 December 2018
I'm happy for Cam, we had a good fight out there. I did want to win, I gave it my best and just didn't make it.
Top 10
| Pos | Player | Rounds | Total | To par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cameron Smith | 70 · 65 · 67 · 70 | 272 | −16 |
| 2 | Marc Leishman | 68 · 68 · 69 · 69 | 274 | −14 |
| T3 | Ross Mcgowan | 71 · 73 · 70 · 63 | 277 | −11 |
| T3 | Matthew Millar | 72 · 70 · 67 · 68 | 277 | −11 |
| 5 | Jaewoong Eom | 67 · 74 · 70 · 70 | 281 | −7 |
| T6 | Ben Eccles | 70 · 71 · 69 · 72 | 282 | −6 |
| T6 | Nick Flanagan | 69 · 73 · 69 · 71 | 282 | −6 |
| T6 | Jason Scrivener | 68 · 73 · 74 · 67 | 282 | −6 |
| T9 | Darren Beck | 73 · 71 · 69 · 70 | 283 | −5 |
| T9 | Sean Crocker | 73 · 71 · 71 · 68 | 283 | −5 |
| T9 | Jarryd Felton | 69 · 73 · 72 · 69 | 283 | −5 |
| T9 | Daniel Gale | 70 · 74 · 69 · 70 | 283 | −5 |
| T9 | Andrew Johnston | 70 · 69 · 73 · 71 | 283 | −5 |
| T9 | Tom Murray | 69 · 73 · 71 · 70 | 283 | −5 |
| T9 | Nick Taylor | 74 · 68 · 70 · 71 | 283 | −5 |
The golfer
born 1993-08-18, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; AUS; turned pro 2013; age 25 that week; tour wins to date: 2; majors to date: 0; world No. 33 that week (OWGR rankBefore (week 48, 2018) from OWGR player profile API).
What’s in the bag
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