![]() At 6ft 4in (193cm), his body size alone is an issue in economy and naturally that affects performance. Business class flights are useful because he can actually sleep. It’s why the LIV money has helped him prepare better and more efficiently. He says he would regularly feel unwell - sometimes for between two to four days - when preparing for tournaments. Just to be fit and healthy is a bonus for Smyth, who, through all the travelling, lack of sleep and stress of fighting for a living appeared to be seriously hampering his career. I didn’t realise there would be so many people!” “I’m a bit more nervous as people are following me around a lot more which is wild. “I just want to practice all the shots and be as comfortable as I can and have no unknowns or uncertainties on how to perform any sort of shot. He is enjoying the experience and has regularly stopped to sign autographs and pose for pictures. Smyth wants to soak it all in, while also observing what other players are doing to prepare. To prepare for his first major, the 28-year-old arrived in England on July 10 - “way earlier than usual” - and played Royal Birkdale and other surrounding links courses before Royal Liverpool for the first time on Saturday. I’m sure his life is good enough not to worry about what gets written.” “He was playing unbelievable golf, he’d just won the Claret Jug and had signed for a gazillion dollars and is playing less golf. “Cam would have celebrated in a very Cam Smith way, regardless of what was going on in the media. “I’m sure he doesn’t care too much about what the media was going on about,” Smyth said. When his fellow countryman, Smith, won last year’s Open at St Andrews in Scotland, the aftermath was dominated by questions about his future on the PGA Tour and whether he would defect to its new rival. It’s no secret he would welcome a return to LIV but also hopes golf can “unite” for the good of the game in the near future. It was a pity about the weather but Im improving on my 54 hole events □ Travis Smyth March 27, 2023 When he qualified for The Open, via the World City Championship in Hong Kong, an event ironically reduced to 54 holes, Smyth tweeted Norman to tell him that he had improved his performance on the shortened format. His carefree attitude on Twitter has won him plenty of supporters and also created humorous newspaper headlines. “Everyone that I meet when I talk to them face-to-face about LIV, they think it’s cool and I have been able to convince a couple of people who were on the fence,” Smyth said. On the whole, LIV has been well received in Australia, largely down to Greg Norman overseeing the tour and the addition of Smith, the defending Open champion, who was born in Brisbane.īut that did not stop Smyth from receiving criticism on social media, where he said a few people “ripped him” for joining the Saudi-backed tour. “It was awesome getting to play in front of huge crowds and getting heckled and that sort of stuff was exciting and fun.” “I went from the Asian Tour, which is maybe the fourth or fifth best tour in the world, to, bang, the biggest rival tour there is. “It was amazing that I could clinch one of those spots,” Smyth added. The conditions of his qualification for the tour meant he could only play the first three tournaments before he had to return to the Asian Tour. In Smyth’s three LIV events, he finished T33, T29 and 22nd. It just feels like a flow-on effect (from LIV).” I am making more money, playing bigger events and qualifying for The Open. “Just the business class aspect is quite nice, but I can now enter a tournament and know I can just focus on performance. ![]() Most people probably had no idea of the situation, and I am sure almost all of them, if I told them where I am at in life, would understand. “My bank account compared to the other guys’ bank accounts is completely different,” Smyth told The Athletic. ![]() It allows him to enter tournaments without having to worry about whether he will be able to cover his expenses, while also meaning he can now bring his coach to events with him and pay his support staff more. There is also a psychological element to earning what he did in such a short space of time. ![]() It was more money than he had ever earned before, so what does someone do when they hit the jackpot?įor the Australian who lives in Sydney, it is far simpler than you may think: He now travels in business class. Smyth, 28, qualified for LIV via the Asian Tour’s International Series London, played three events and then returned to the Asian Tour nearly $1million richer. Unlike some of the world’s best players - including Brooks Koepka, Dustin Johnson and Cameron Smith - he had not been paid untold millions to join the breakaway competition. ![]()
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