Making his 25th Major championship appearance, Cameron Smith defeated Cameron Young by one stroke to win the 150th Open Championship; it is his sixth win on the PGA TOUR and first Major championship title.
At 20-under, Smith equalled the lowest score in relation to par in Major championship history.
With a 6-under 30 (including five straight birdies on Nos. 10-14), Smith carded the lowest closing nine-hole score by a winner in Open Championship history.
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Smith’s 268 is the lowest winning score by a champion at St. Andrews (269, Tiger Woods, 2000).
He becomes the fifth Australian to win The Open and first since Greg Norman in 1993; he joins Peter Thomson (1955) and Kel Nagle (1960) as Australian winners at St. Andrews.
Smith joins Jack Nicklaus (1978) as the only players to win THE PLAYERS Championship and The Open in the same year.
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This season marks the first time since the Masters Tournament began in 1934 that all four Majors were won by players under the age of 30.
PGA TOUR rookie Young’s runner-up finish is the best by a player in his Open debut at St. Andrews since Tony Lema won in 1964.
Smith carded a final-round 8-under 64 to come from four strokes back to win the 150th Open Championship; equalled the largest come-from-behind victory at St. Andrews (most recent: John Daly, 1995).
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Earned his sixth TOUR victory in his 169th start at the age of 28 years, 10 months, 29 days.
Collected 600 points and moves to No. 2 in the FedExCup standings; also moves to No. 2 in the Official World Golf Ranking.
All his six PGA TOUR wins are by one stroke or in a playoff:
o 2022 Open Championship
o 2022 PLAYERS Championship
o 2022 Sentry Tournament of Champions
o 2021 Zurich Classic of New Orleans (with partner Marc Leishman)
o 2020 Sony Open in Hawaii
o 2017 Zurich Classic of New Orleans (with partner Jonas Blixt)
At 20-under, he equalled the lowest score in relation to par in Major championship history (most recent: Dustin Johnson/2020 Masters).
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Smith becomes the first player to shoot 64 or better in the final round and win a Major since Collin Morikawa at the 2020 PGA Championship.
64 is the lowest final round score at St. Andrews (along with Sam Burns, who posted the score earlier in the day), the lowest by a champion at St. Andrews (previous: 66, Zach Johnson, 2015) and one shy of the lowest in Open Championship history (63, Henrik Stenson, 2016).
With a 6-under 30 (including five straight birdies on Nos. 10-14), carded the lowest closing nine-hole score by a winner in Open Championship history.
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Prior to winning this week, finished T20 in 2019 for the best of his four prior Open Championship starts.
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First-round leader Young finished runner-up for the fourth time this season, the first to do so since Louis Oosthuizen in 2020-21; despite an eagle on the par-4 18th hole, finished one behind Smith in bid to become the 11th player to win The Open Championship in debut appearance.
Since his win at the 2014 PGA Championship, Rory McIlroy (3rd) has accumulated 17 top-10s in Majors, the most of any player in that span.
Filippo Celli won the silver medal, presented annually to the top amateur who finishes 72 holes at The Open.
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