Battling Aussie golfer banks $1.1 million in a week after huge LIV payday
Australian Travis Smyth has become a millionaire in just one week after cashing in on the controversial rivers of Saudi Arabian petrodollars being pumped into the game.
Schwartzel held on for a one-shot victory at the inaugural LIV Golf event outside London to secure the $4m prize for the individual victory — along with more than $750,000m from his share of the purse earned by his four-man Stinger team for topping the team rankings. But his second-placed finish at Slaley Hall netted him $US220,000 alone, four times as much as he’d ever won in an event before, and earned him entry to the real Aladdin’s cave - the LIV Golf launch event.At Centurion, Smyth shot 10-over par for the three rounds to finish joint 33rd among the 48 players. But that was still enough to earn him a $US146,000.
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