Cam Smith launches into Australian Open rant as LIV golfer makes DP World Tour return

Cam Smith is backmost connected the DP World Tour this week arsenic helium returns to his autochthonal Australia to vie successful his location Open, which this twelvemonth is being played implicit 2 courses

Cam Smith has voiced his concerns implicit the conditions astatine the Australian Open, revealing he's "disappointed" with the velocity and softness of the fairways and greens.

Returning to Australia and blistery disconnected a runner-up decorativeness astatine the Australian PGA Championship, Smith is present taking portion successful his location Open astatine 2 of the country's astir prestigious courses, Kingston Heath and Victoria Golf Club. The Melbourne country has been deed by dense rainfall successful caller days successful the build-up to the event.

Despite this, Smith believes the upwind is excuse for the softness of the courses. "It seems there's been a batch of h2o and it's not precisely what I was expecting. The course(s) are successful large information but playing truthful overmuch antithetic to however they're designed and however they're meant to beryllium played, which is beauteous disappointing."

He added: "The upwind down present the past mates of weeks has been beauteous good, I cognize they got immoderate rainfall implicit the play and again this morning.

"But I've played down present successful rainfall earlier and it's inactive been similar that the adjacent day. So, I deliberation that's a bull---- excuse, to beryllium honest. deliberation it's been prepared similar this for a crushed and it's present however these play courses are meant to beryllium played."

Smith expressed his hopes that the big courses would play likewise to however they person successful the past, steadfast and fast, allowing players to follow a antithetic attack to the 1 they instrumentality week in, week out. "I had been keeping an oculus connected the upwind present and I was truly excited past week," helium added.

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"To play a truly steadfast and accelerated Sandbelt. It's thing that my [Ripper GC] teammates and I spoke astir this year. We emotion coming down present and playing these events due to the fact that the play courses [are steadfast and fast] and it's conscionable not going to play similar that. It's going to play much similar an American play course, benignant of people golf."

Despite his concerns, Smith comes into the tourney arsenic 1 of the tourney favourites, but the Ripper skipper faces stiff contention from defending champion Joaquin Niemann and PGA Tour prima Min Woo Lee. Two of his Ripper teammates, Lucas Herbert and Marc Leishman, are besides competing, with Leishman finishing conscionable down Smith successful 3rd astatine the Australian PGA past week.

Smith volition footwear disconnected his tourney successful Thursday's opening circular alongside past week's victor Elvis Smylie and Frenchman Victor Perez.