{"id":332286,"date":"2025-12-07T07:17:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T07:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/332286\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T07:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T07:17:08","slug":"cam-smith-narrowly-misses-putt-to-force-playoff-as-rasmus-neergaard-petersen-wins-at-royal-melbourne-australian-golf-digest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/332286\/","title":{"rendered":"Cam Smith narrowly misses putt to force playoff as Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen wins at Royal Melbourne \u2013 Australian Golf Digest"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Photo: Getty Images]<\/p>\n

Cameron Smith missed a short putt to take the Australian Open into a playoff at Royal Melbourne after Denmark\u2019s Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen made a sublime par save to lift the Stonehaven Cup.<\/p>\n

Major winner Smith made a crucial birdie putt on the par-5 17th to stay tied for the lead before a brilliant drive down the 18th fairway and a safe approach shot long to a pin on the right. <\/p>\n

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Neergaard-Petersen\u2019s second shot flared right and short of the greenside bunkers and from a tricky lie in thick rough he flopped the ball over a bunker to a tucked pin. Neergaard-Petersen drained a 12-footer that proved to be the winning par putt, finishing at 15-under-par 269. Smith was second 14-under (270).<\/p>\n

Smith had a treacherous long birdie putt that settled five feet from the hole and when he stepped up to attempt it, it was to force a playoff. He missed it left and was visibly devastated.<\/p>\n

It was Neergaard-Petersen\u2019s first victory on the DP World Tour.<\/p>\n

More to come\u2026 <\/p>\n

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