A mulleted, mad Brisbane Broncos fan who loves nothing more than fishing with his Jacksonville neighbours has been at the centre of a power struggle in golf’s bitter civil war. So why did he go? | app85
beyond the white concrete wall where gardeners work away in the front yard, a bloke worth hundreds of millions of dollars could be mistaken for a fan who picked up a cheap T-shirt from a merchandise van, just so he can say: “I was there”.
If being showered in cash from Saudi Arabia’s public investment fund as the poster boy for the breakaway LIV Golf league was supposed to change Smith, then a morning with him shows it hasn’t. But most of Australia was asleep at 3.41am when McIlroy charged an audacious chip shot for eagle past the pin on the 18th hole at St Andrews, the home of golf, which left Smith winning the oldest trophy in the sport. Smith started the day four strokes behind McIlroy and Norway’s Viktor Hovland. On the back nine, Smith shot 30. It was like he was putting a golf ball into a hole the size of a basketball hoop.
“I was definitely leaning one way, but it wasn’t signed on paper,” Smith says. “There was still so much stuff to do, and so much to think about.”
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