Cameron Smith shot a bogey-free 63 Friday to finish 8–under-par and take a one-shot lead after the first round of the LIV Golf event at Centurion Club in London.
This week marks the return of LIV Golf to where it debuted last June, with Charl Schwartzel taking home the title.
Smith finished with eight birdies while his Ripper GC teammate and fellow Australian Marc Leishman also sank eight birdies but bogeyed the third hole and is one shot back. Smith birdied three straight holes twice: 9–11 and 13–15.
“It was just really good,” Smith said of his round. “Wasn’t much bad stuff in there, to be honest. Probably got a little bit scratchy there through the end of the tough bit of that front nine, but I don’t really put that down to really poor swings, kind of just mental errors. But left them in pretty good spots anyway. All in all, yeah, really solid.”…