Cameron Smith, after one of the weirdest weekends in golf that I can remember, won the Players Championship by one shot over Anirban Lahiri. Despite finding the water on 18, Smith clipped a spinny wedge from 54 yards to tap-in range, forcing Lahiri to make birdie. Lahiri’s birdie chip wasn’t meant to be, and Smith joined a long line of Australians to win the PGA Tour’s biggest event.
The now sixth-ranked player in the game has put the golf world on notice, and will surely be one of the favorites at Augusta in less than a month.
He wasn’t the only one to gain a few fans on Monday however, as Lahiri was nothing short of class after falling short. And, to take a little sting out of the whole week, he won more than $2 million.
