{"id":290922,"date":"2025-11-30T05:30:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T05:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/290922\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T05:30:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T05:30:12","slug":"liv-golf-star-cameron-smith-rages-after-seventh-straight-missed-cut-at-australian-pga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/290922\/","title":{"rendered":"LIV Golf star Cameron Smith rages after seventh straight missed cut at Australian PGA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BMW Australian PGA R2 Leaderboard<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">Pos<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">Player Name<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">Score<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">R2<\/p>\n<p>1<\/p>\n<p>63<\/p>\n<p>2<\/p>\n<p>DING, Wenyi<\/p>\n<p>66<\/p>\n<p>\u200b<\/p>\n<p>QUAYLE, Anthony<\/p>\n<p>66<\/p>\n<p>\u200b<\/p>\n<p>RANKIN, Brett<\/p>\n<p>69<\/p>\n<p>5<\/p>\n<p>LEE, Min Woo<\/p>\n<p>66<\/p>\n<p>\u200b<\/p>\n<p>65<\/p>\n<p>\u200b<\/p>\n<p>WOOD, Christopher<\/p>\n<p>66<\/p>\n<p>\u200b<\/p>\n<p>VAILLANT, Tom<\/p>\n<p>64<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">Selected Others<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">MC<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">NIEMANN, Joaquin<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">Par<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">71<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">MC<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">SMITH, Cameron<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">+2<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">75<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europeantour.com\/dpworld-tour\/bmw-australian-pga-championship-2026\/leaderboard?round=2\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FULL LEADERBOARD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cameron Smith didn\u2019t sugarcoat it after another miserable week\u2014this time on home soil\u2014at the BMW Australian PGA, the opening event of the 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfmagic.com\/tour\/dp-world-tour\" data-entity-type=\"taxonomy_term\" data-entity-uuid=\"c0e12862-bf2a-4178-abd1-1020aecc3123\" data-entity-substitution=\"canonical\" title=\"DP World Tour\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DP World Tour<\/a> season. The Australian fan favourite was left seething following a second-round collapse at Royal Queensland GC, extending a brutal run of form that now includes seven straight missed cuts in OWGR events.<\/p>\n<p>For a player who once sat at World No.2 and lifted the Claret Jug at St Andrews in 2022, the decline has been staggering with him slumping to a remarkable career low of 345th in the world. And on Friday in Brisbane, the frustration finally boiled over.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfmagic.com\/players\/cameron-smith\" data-entity-type=\"taxonomy_term\" data-entity-uuid=\"efa55f35-f43b-4985-b271-a955ab9e61a5\" data-entity-substitution=\"canonical\" title=\"Cameron Smith\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Smith<\/a>, 32, began the day on the projected cut line at 2-under, and a birdie at the 2nd provided a flicker of hope. But a bogey at the 4th set the tone for what would eventually become another unravelled round.<\/p>\n<p>Three bogeys in four holes from the 11th left him scrambling, and although he rolled in an eight-footer at the 17th party hole to give the crowd something to cheer, disaster swiftly followed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>Smith missed the 18th green, then three-putted his way to a double-bogey six, closing with a 4-over 75 and finishing the week at 2-over par\u2014four shots outside the cut line.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was s***,\u201d fumed Smith in front of reporters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know, I just don\u2019t know. I was so confused.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was feeling good, really confident and just couldn\u2019t get anything going. It was weird. It can definitely get in your head, I think it is in my head.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was a round\u2014and a reaction\u2014that perfectly summed up his 2025 season.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Cameron Smith made double bogey on the last to shoot a second round 75 and miss the cut at the BMW Australian PGA Championship. That makes it missed cuts in back to back weeks for Cam and 7 out of 7 for the year.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s going on with the former world number 2? \ud83d\ude33 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/e1Og0n0jXk\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/e1Og0n0jXk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Flushing It (@flushingitgolf) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/flushingitgolf\/status\/1994313739009466548?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">November 28, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Smith&#8217;s latest early exit compounds a grim stretch for the LIV Golf star. Smith hasn\u2019t won anywhere in the world since his Bedminster victory in August 2023, and he remains winless in every OWGR-counting event since joining LIV.<\/p>\n<p>He was the only player to miss the cut at all four majors in 2025, then failed to make the weekend in his next three starts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Smith will now look to bounce back at next week\u2019s Australian Open at Royal Melbourne\u2014a tournament he has never won down the years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Who knows exactly where it&#8217;s gone so wrong for Smith this season, he&#8217;s not even sure himself, but he has undergone a big life change becoming a father for the first time when welcoming son Remy with wife Shanel in April.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>Smith is now very much open about struggling mentally during his slump, admitting he\u2019s wrestling with \u201cinner demons\u201d following what he called a \u201chometown horror show\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think about golf often, but in the last couple of months I\u2019ve thought about it a lot and I want to get back to where I was,\u201d Smith told reporters of his winless run.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do know what the answer is; it\u2019s just to keep working hard and try to be patient.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Smith\u2019s campaign fizzled out again, the top of the leaderboard is loaded heading into the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Kazuma Kobori surged into the lead at 10-under after a sensational 8-under 63, finishing with four consecutive birdies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>Brett Rankin, Wenyi Ding and Anthony Quayle\u2014who has Tiger Woods\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfmagic.com\/tour\/dp-world-tour\/tiger-woods-legendary-former-caddie-makes-shock-return-bmw-australian-pga\" data-entity-type=\"node\" data-entity-uuid=\"eeb04eb7-40c2-45a8-be06-e00eabf089d4\" data-entity-substitution=\"canonical\" title=\"Tiger Woods&#039; legendary former caddie makes shock return at BMW Australian PGA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">legendary former caddie Steve Williams on his bag<\/a> for two weeks\u2014sit one back.<\/p>\n<p>Min Woo Lee, champion here in 2023, lurks at 8-under alongside a resurgent Chris Wood, while Cameron Davis, Daniel Hillier, Marc Leishman, Jose Ballester and England\u2019s Marco Penge are all within striking distance at 7-under. Adam Scott also kept himself firmly in the mix at 6-under.<\/p>\n<p>LIV star Joaquin Niemann, the pre-tournament favourite, joined Smith on the sidelines after posting back-to-back 71s to miss the cut on level par.<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/smith3211.jpeg\"   type=\"image\/jpeg\" alt=\"Cameron Smith\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.63\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Cameron Smith<\/p>\n<p>With Smith&#8217;s form in freefall and confidence visibly shaken, he now heads to Royal Melbourne for next week\u2019s Australian Open, hoping to stop a slump that\u2019s stretched to nearly two and a half years without a global win.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>The event will also see the much-anticipated return of Rory McIlroy, making his first appearance in Australia since 2014 and aiming to recapture the title he won in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>For Smith, though, the mission is simple: find something\u2014anything\u2014to rebuild from.<\/p>\n<p>Because after another bruising week, summed up with an expletive, the pressure is mounting fast.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our Newsletter<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BMW Australian PGA R2 Leaderboard Pos Player Name Score R2 1 63 2 DING, Wenyi 66 \u200b QUAYLE,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-290922","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}