{"id":1556946,"date":"2022-07-15T18:04:46","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T22:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1556946"},"modified":"2022-07-15T18:05:02","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T22:05:02","slug":"golf-picture-perfect-open-so-far-for-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/golf-picture-perfect-open-so-far-for-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf-Picture perfect Open so far for Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgolf-picture-perfect-open-so-far-for-smith%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1556946&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>By Steve Keating<\/p>\n<p>ST ANDREWS, Scotland (Reuters) \u2013     To hear Cameron Smith you would think he was in Scotland for a holiday with his mates rather than the golfer sitting atop the 150th British Open leaderboard after nearly carding a record for the tournament on Friday to snatch the second round lead.<\/p>\n<p>The highlight of his visit to St Andrews so far is a picture on the Swilcan Bridge with his Australian pals Adam Scott and Marc Leishman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlaying nine holes with Leish and Scotty the other day and getting our photo taken on the bridge I think that is something that I\u2019ll definitely never forget,\u201d Smith said with a smile.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo of my best mates now in the Home of Golf, just having a good time, having a whack around, that was really cool.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And what do you do after returning a flawless eight-under 64, one shot shy of The Open championship record to move two clear of American Cameron Young at the midway point of the year\u2019s final major?<\/p>\n<p>How about catching a few episodes of \u201cPeaky Blinders\u201d, a good lie in and a ride on your bike \u2013 all on Smith\u2019s to do list.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think I\u2019ve always done a good job of once golf is finished kind of getting on with life,\u201d explained Smith. \u201cTold myself it\u2019s like a job. Don\u2019t take it home with you. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I think it\u2019s really important, especially in these big tournaments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite having won golf\u2019s unofficial fifth major, the Players Championship, this year and finished in a tie for third at the Masters, the 28-year-old is not even the best known Cameron Smith in Australia where he is constantly mistaken for the rugby league great who has the same name.<\/p>\n<p>That could change if the man with the signature mullet can stay at the top for two more rounds and become the first Australian since Greg Norman to return home with the Claret Jug.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think there\u2019s going to be a few more gnarly pins, and I think being smart out there is definitely going to be the key to staying at the top of the leaderboard,\u201d said Smith.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe last couple of days has been such a grind, it\u2019s almost snapped me back into thinking about the shot right and really having to be precise with targets and shapes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think Tuesday\/Wednesday was more the kid coming out in me, using the big humps and hollows and stuff like that. But it\u2019s definitely been a little different in the last couple of days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Steve Keating in St Andrews; Editing by Ken Ferris)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/?attachment_id=2726790\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI6E0Z9-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI6E0Z9-VIEWIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/?attachment_id=2726791\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI6E0ZC-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI6E0ZC-VIEWIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/?attachment_id=2726792\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI6E0ZD-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI6E0ZD-VIEWIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/?attachment_id=2726794\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI6E0ZB-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI6E0ZB-VIEWIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Steve Keating ST ANDREWS, Scotland (Reuters) \u2013 To hear Cameron Smith you would think he was in Scotland for a holiday with his mates rather than the golfer sitting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1556946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1556946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1556946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1556946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1556946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}