Golf | The final round to Monday lifted Cameron Smith to The Players Championship: “It was a tough week”

Cameron Smith won the biggest golf tournament of his career on Monday when he lifted The Players Championship prize pool in Florida.

Due to heavy rain and bad weather, the final round of the competition was exceptionally played only on Monday.

“It was a long week, but now I feel like I liked it,” the Australian said in an interview with US Today.

Smith played on the Ponte Vedra Beach field four rounds to score thirteen under a pair (-13). He cleared India for a five-day stretch of the tournament Anirban Lahiriin.

The key to Smith’s victory was a strong final round, which he cleared with 66 strokes (-6). He rose five places on Monday. In the other rounds he played for scores 69, 71 and 69.

The excitement intensified in the last 18th hole, when Smith made a pair of bogies and Lahir.

In the closing hole, Lahir chipped his third stroke from twelve meters to about 30 cents from the hole. If the ball had gone in, there would have been a replay in front.

“Putit saved me today. They were my strengths, ”Smith said.

The $ 20 million prize pool for the tournament is the largest on the PGA Tour.

For this reason, The Players Championship will be unofficially counted as the fifth major tournament of the season.

Smith, who lives in the United States, offset his profit of $ 3.6 million, or $ 3.28.

Lahiri was only 322nd on the world rankings before The Players Championship.

“I was surprised at how calm I was. I got to keep the game routine together and my mind was clear. Of course I wanted to win. Today, it was finally a chance, ”said Lahiri, who has been playing for seven years on the U.S. Professional Tour with the PGA.

The tip was tight for England Paul Casey lost to Lahir only a blow (-11).

The first official major tournament of the season, the Masters Tournament, will be played from 7 to 10. October at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia.