Australian Amateur: Smith tops Drakeford in finale
Cameron Smith
SOUTH OAKLEY, VICTORIA, Australia (Jan.
20, 2013) -
- Queenslander Cameron Smith completed
an
extraordinary turnaround to win the
Australian Men's
Amateur Championship against Victorian
Geoff
Drakeford at Commonwealth Golf Club on
Sunday.
Trailing 5-down to Commonwealth
member
Drakeford at various stages, Smith fought
back to
win his maiden Australian Amateur title
with a 3&2
victory.
“I’m gobsmacked, I can’t even believe I
came back
from that,” Smith said.
“I played some good shots and put him
under
pressure and holed some putts. I thought
if I could
him get down the last hole I was in with a
shot but
turns out I got it done before that which
was quite
nice.”
“Mum was pretty stoked when I told her,
she was
just yelling and couldn’t get a word out,”
Smith said.
Smith earns an exemption into the 2013
Emirates
Australian Open with his victory.
"It's definitely a good start to 2013 and
hopefully
this form can carry through to the next
few
tournaments,"Smith added.
ABOUT THE Australian Men's Amateur
The Australian Men's and Women's
Amateur
Championships are Australia's oldest
Amateur
Golf Championships, with both having
been
played since 1894. Long held as a match play event,
in 2021 the format changed to 72 holes
of stroke play.
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