Cameron Smith will head to the Masters with a successful feeling after teammate, and nice mate, Marc Leishman’s breakthrough LIV win at Miami helped steer the all-Aussie Ripper GC to an enormous group victory.
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Leishman, who hasn’t gained’t anyplace since his final PGA Tour in 2020, held his nerve making a vital three metre closing putt for par as 2017 Masters champ Sergio Garcia enjoying behind him, put his method to the 18th within the water on the Trump Nationwide Doral Golf Course. He took house a $6.5m AUD winner’s cheque.
The errant shot from Garcia, which resulted in a bogey, handed Leishman, who additionally recovered from an errant closing tee shot, a one-shot win, his first since becoming a member of the Saudi-backed tour with Smith who, with fellow Aussies Lucas Herbert and Matt Jones, gained for the fourth time as a group.
One other former Masters winner, Charl Schwartzel, completed second, and Leishman, who hasn’t performed at Augusta since his transfer to LIV, stated it took his finest to win.
“It was an unbelievable leaderboard, I noticed all the fellows proper behind me and I knew the holes I needed to end off on,” he stated after a bogey-free, closing spherical of 68.
“I performed a number of the finest golf I’ve ever performed at this time, particularly coming off Singapore a few weeks in the past once I beat, I believe, three folks.
“Confidence wasn’t overly excessive however I knew issues had been wanting fairly good. I used to be enjoying good golf and I confirmed that at this time.
“To win out right here, you might be paying towards robust fields each week, it’s lots to sink in.”
Leishman’s win comes per week after fellow Aussie Min Woo Lee’s breakthrough PGA Tour victory on the Houston Open. Lee can be headed to the Masters, however Leishman will not be.
Smith, the one member of the Ripper GC quartet headed to Augusta this week, courtesy of the exemption he obtained for successful the 2022 British Open, completed tied for ninth within the particular person standings.
Herbert was tied for 18th, Jones tied for twenty first, which was adequate for a cushty eight-shot win group win.
Leishman turned the twenty second totally different particular person winner of a LIV occasion.