{"id":255637,"date":"2025-11-01T14:43:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T14:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/255637\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T14:43:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T14:43:22","slug":"watch-cam-smith-chipping-over-a-bunker-with-every-club-in-his-bag-in-pure-short-game-wizardry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/255637\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH Cam Smith chipping over a bunker with every club in his bag in pure short-game wizardry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Picture: Ripper GC]<\/p>\n<p>Cam Smith has hit plenty of great golf shots during his career, but it will be hard to top the one he hit with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.australiangolfdigest.com.au\/open-championship-2022-this-fan-angle-of-cameron-smiths-road-hole-par-save-makes-it-even-more-incredible\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">putter from off the green on the penultimate hole of the 2022 Open Championship<\/a>. With St Andrews\u2019 famed Road Hole bunker between Smith and the green, the Queenslander opted to use his trusted flat stick to go around one of the scariest obstacles in golf. And it led to his lone major championship title.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a title=\"View Article\" href=\"https:\/\/www.australiangolfdigest.com.au\/old-course-st-andrews-course-changes-open-championship\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Old Course at St Andrews set to undergo changes ahead of 2027 Open<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In case you forgot, here\u2019s a look back at that insane up-and-down. Or, rather, around-and-down:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Cameron Smith magic.<\/p>\n<p>A defining clutch moment at the Road Hole <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheOpen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@TheOpen<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sYtp1TJ9ok\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/sYtp1TJ9ok<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PGATOUR\/status\/1549041870424129537?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 18, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Which brings us to present day and the now LIV Golf star doing a fun video involving him having to navigate another bunker. And this time Smith used his putter\u2014and every other club in his bag. Let\u2019s just say, the guy is still a short-game wizard. Have a look:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Not cam chipping with putter \ud83d\ude33 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OGCyAls8iC\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/OGCyAls8iC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ripper GC (@rippergc_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rippergc_\/status\/1982881325943242899?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 27, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not too shabby, mate. Sure, Cam missed the green with the driver and the 7-wood (he hit with the 3-wood by banking it off the lip above the bunker), but overall, that\u2019s impressive. Especially with, yes, you guessed it, the putter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh my god,\u201d a pleased Smith says after somehow flopping one with his flatstick to a few feet. \u201cIt was always the putter. Don\u2019t count out putter from behind a putter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We certainly won\u2019t, Cam. If you\u2019re the one wielding it, that is.<\/p>\n<p>OTHER NEWS: <a title=\"View Article\" href=\"https:\/\/www.australiangolfdigest.com.au\/kai-trump-lpga-debut-2025\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump\u2019s granddaughter to make LPGA debut<\/a><\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[Picture: Ripper GC] Cam Smith has hit plenty of great golf shots during his career, but it will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-255637","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}