European Tour

Australian PGA Championship 2018

November 29 - December 02

RACV Royal Pines Resort, Queensland, Australia

A$1,500,000

November 29 - December 02

RACV Royal Pines Resort, Queensland, Australia

A$1,500,000

Round 2

Sensational Smith takes lead on Gold Coast

Round 1

Round 3

Round 4

Round 1

Round 3

Round 4

November 30, 2018

Defending champion Cameron Smith carded a brilliant 65 on day two of the Australian PGA Championship to take a one-shot lead into the weekend at RACV Royal Pines Resort.

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“It was good. I thought I struck it nicely yesterday and the putts weren't quite going in. I just didn't quite have the speed yesterday. I did a little bit of extra work this morning on the green and it paid off. I was actually getting putts to the hole today, which is nice."

“I knew I had to get off to a good start to kind of transfer the momentum kind of thing over. You know, got off to a great start, had a pretty crappy bogey there on whatever hole it is, four or whatever. Just a couple of errors in a row. From then on in, it was just really solid golf."

The home favourite is looking to become the first player to successfully defend the title since Robert Allenby in 2001 and he was nine under at the top of a leaderboard dominated by Australians.

Marc Leishman and Jake McLeod led the chasing pack, one shot clear of countrymen Matt Jager, Dimitrios Papadatos and Christopher Wood.

“Happy with the position at the moment," said Leishman. "Lot of golf to play and the course is only getting tougher. It's starting to speed up, which is good. The sun's out, it's warm, it's only going to dry it even more. Me and Foxy (Ryan Fox) were saying it's one of those courses where if you're hitting good shots, you can make a lot of birdies, but if you're just a little bit off, it's pretty brutal. I did hit a lot of good shots and a couple of bad ones, but they didn't cause me too much damage luckily."

Smith made seven birdies in his first ten holes and while McLeod opened up a two-shot lead on the back nine, a late stumble handed the initiative back to Smith.

McLeod leads the PGA Tour of Australasia Order of Merit and a win this week could secure him his European Tour playing privileges, while Leishman is looking for a first top tier win on home soil.

“It's good," said McLeod. "Hopefully I can be in the last group with Cam, which would be a good round. We haven't played a round in a long time either, so it would be nice to have a game and see where I'm at against one of the best players in the world."

“It's a bit of an up and down day and it was sort of a lot of good and a lot of bad. It was just one of those days, but the good was a bit better, so it was nice to have a couple under today.”

American Harold Varner III - the 2016 champion - was at six under, a shot clear of India's Gaganjeet Bhullar, England's Andrew Johnston, and Australians David Bransdon, Paul Hayden and Anthony Quayle.

Pos.	Player	Nat	To Par	R1	R2	Total
1	Cameron Smith	AUS	-9	70	65	135
T2	Jake McLeod	AUS	-8	66	70	136
T2	Marc Leishman	AUS	-8	68	68	136
T4	Christopher Wood	AUS	-7	71	66	137
T4	Dimitrios Papadatos	AUS	-7	67	70	137
T4	Matt Jager	AUS	-7	66	71	137
7	Harold Varner III	USA	-6	69	69	138
T8	Andrew Johnston	ENG	-5	70	69	139
T8	Anthony Quayle	AUS	-5	70	69	139
T8	David Bransdon	AUS	-5	71	68	139
T8	Gaganjeet Bhullar	IND	-5	69	70	139
T8	Paul Hayden	AUS	-5	72	67	139
T13	Mathew Goggin	AUS	-4	68	72	140
T13	Oliver Farr	WAL	-4	71	69	140
T13	Robert Allenby	AUS	-4	70	70	140
T16	Aaron Cockerill	CAN	-3	72	69	141
T16	Ben Eccles	AUS	-3	70	71	141
T16	Jae-Woong Eom	KOR	-3	67	74	141
T16	Jason Scrivener	AUS	-3	68	73	141
T16	Sam Brazel	AUS	-3	70	71	141
T21	Aaron Wilkin	AUS	-2	73	69	142
T21	Daan Huizing	NED	-2	73	69	142
T21	Damien Jordan	AUS	-2	69	73	142
T21	Daniel Fox	AUS	-2	73	69	142
T21	David McKenzie	AUS	-2	73	69	142
T21	Douglas Klein	AUS	-2	68	74	142
T21	Frazer Droop	AUS	-2	73	69	142
T21	Gareth Paddison	NZL	-2	70	72	142
T21	Harrison Endycott	AUS	-2	70	72	142
T21	Jarryd Felton	AUS	-2	69	73	142
T21	Jordan Zunic	AUS	-2	70	72	142
T21	Matthew Millar	AUS	-2	72	70	142
T21	Michael Wright	AUS	-2	72	70	142
T21	Nick Flanagan	AUS	-2	69	73	142
T21	Nick Taylor	CAN	-2	74	68	142
T21	Peter Cooke	RSA	-2	73	69	142
T21	Peter Senior	AUS	-2	72	70	142
T21	Rhein Gibson	AUS	-2	72	70	142
T21	Tom Murray	ENG	-2	69	73	142
T21	Troy Merritt	USA	-2	71	71	142
T41	Alex Edge	AUS	-1	73	70	143
T41	Austin Connelly	CAN	-1	72	71	143
T41	Blake Proverbs	AUS	-1	71	72	143
T41	Braden Becker	AUS	-1	70	73	143
T41	Craig Ross	SCO	-1	71	72	143
T41	Jonathan Thomson	ENG	-1	72	71	143
T41	Josh Geary	NZL	-1	72	71	143
T41	Matthew Griffin	AUS	-1	72	71	143
T41	Matthew Stieger	AUS	-1	74	69	143
T41	Renato Paratore	ITA	-1	73	70	143
T41	Ricardo Melo Gouveia	POR	-1	69	74	143
T41	Rod Pampling	AUS	-1	74	69	143
T41	Simon Hawkes	AUS	-1	70	73	143
T41	Steve Allan	AUS	-1	70	73	143
T41	Terry Pilkadaris	AUS	-1	69	74	143
T56	Alexander Knappe	GER	Par	70	74	144
T56	Ashley Hall	AUS	Par	70	74	144
T56	Daniel Gale	AUS	Par	70	74	144
T56	Darren Beck	AUS	Par	73	71	144
T56	Hugues Joannes	BEL	Par	72	72	144
T56	Jack Munro	AUS	Par	73	71	144
T56	James Morrison	ENG	Par	69	75	144
T56	Jason Norris	AUS	Par	70	74	144
T56	Mark Brown	NZL	Par	71	73	144
T56	Max McCardle	AUS	Par	76	68	144
T56	Ross McGowan	ENG	Par	71	73	144
T56	Ryan Evans	ENG	Par	72	72	144
T56	Ryan Fox	NZL	Par	69	75	144
T56	Sean Crocker	USA	Par	73	71	144
T56	Tim Stewart	AUS	Par	70	74	144
T56	Zach Murray	AUS	Par	70	74	144
CUT	Aaron Pike	AUS	1	72	73	145
CUT	Aaron Townsend	AUS	1	73	72	145
CUT	Adam Bland	AUS	1	70	75	145
CUT	Adam Burdett	AUS	1	73	72	145
CUT	Benjamin Clementson	AUS	1	75	70	145
CUT	Cameron John	AUS	1	70	75	145
CUT	Curtis Luck	AUS	1	69	76	145
CUT	Deyen Lawson	AUS	1	76	69	145
CUT	Gavin Green	MAS	1	71	74	145
CUT	Henric Sturehed	SWE	1	72	73	145
CUT	Jun-Seok Lee	KOR	1	73	72	145
CUT	Matthew Nixon	ENG	1	72	73	145
CUT	Nathan Green	AUS	1	73	72	145
CUT	Ruben Sondjaja	AUS	1	72	73	145
CUT	Steven Jeffress	AUS	1	69	76	145
CUT	Wade Ormsby	AUS	1	72	73	145
CUT	Adrian Otaegui	ESP	2	68	78	146
CUT	Aron Price	AUS	2	69	77	146
CUT	Brad Moules	FIJ	2	70	76	146
CUT	Carl Yuan	CHN	2	70	76	146
CUT	Dale Williamson	AUS	2	71	75	146
CUT	David Smail	NZL	2	75	71	146
CUT	Duncan Stewart	SCO	2	73	73	146
CUT	Geoff Ogilvy	AUS	2	73	73	146
CUT	James Nitties	AUS	2	74	72	146
CUT	Josh Younger	AUS	2	74	72	146
CUT	Kieran Muir	AUS	2	73	73	146
CUT	Min-Kyu Kim	KOR	2	72	74	146
CUT	Peter O'Malley	AUS	2	73	73	146
CUT	Richard Green	AUS	2	71	75	146
CUT	Ryan Lynch	AUS	2	73	73	146
CUT	Cameron Davis	AUS	3	75	72	147
CUT	Greg Chalmers	AUS	3	73	74	147
CUT	Jake Higginbottom	AUS	3	73	74	147
CUT	James Marchesani	AUS	3	74	73	147
CUT	Jordan Mullaney	AUS	3	77	70	147
CUT	Michael Hendry	NZL	3	74	73	147
CUT	Scott Laycock	AUS	3	73	74	147
CUT	Adam Blyth	AUS	4	70	78	148
CUT	Daniel Nisbet	AUS	4	75	73	148
CUT	Harry Ellis	ENG	4	74	74	148
CUT	Kieran Pratt	AUS	4	74	74	148
CUT	Mitchell A. Brown	AUS	4	73	75	148
CUT	Paul Maddy	ENG	4	70	78	148
CUT	Robert MacIntyre	SCO	4	74	74	148
CUT	Ryan Chisnall	NZL	4	70	78	148
CUT	Sam Lee	FIJ	4	73	75	148
CUT	Scott Hend	AUS	4	76	72	148
CUT	Taylor MacDonald	FIJ	4	71	77	148
CUT	Tim Hart	AUS	4	75	73	148
CUT	Zihao Chen	CHN	4	73	75	148
CUT	Anthony Marchesani	AUS	5	76	73	149
CUT	Daniel Gavins	ENG	5	73	76	149
CUT	David Boote	WAL	5	72	77	149
CUT	Ewen Ferguson	SCO	5	76	73	149
CUT	Jack Senior	ENG	5	71	78	149
CUT	Lucas Herbert	AUS	5	80	69	149
CUT	Nick Cullen	AUS	5	76	73	149
CUT	Rick Kulacz	AUS	5	75	74	149
CUT	John Senden	AUS	6	72	78	150
CUT	Matthew Lisk	AUS	6	75	75	150
CUT	Matthew Perry	AUS	6	77	73	150
CUT	Michael Hoey	NIR	6	78	72	150
CUT	Chris Duke	AUS	7	75	76	151
CUT	Cormac Sharvin	NIR	7	78	73	151
CUT	Daniel Pearce	NZL	7	74	77	151
CUT	Brett Rankin	AUS	8	75	77	152
CUT	Dale Brandt-Richards	AUS	8	76	76	152
CUT	David Cooke	USA	8	73	79	152
CUT	Jack Wilson	AUS	8	77	75	152
CUT	Marco Iten	SWE	8	74	78	152
CUT	Rory Bourke	AUS	8	74	78	152
CUT	Adam Stephens	AUS	9	77	76	153
CUT	Connor Syme	SCO	9	77	76	153
CUT	Marcus Fraser	AUS	9	80	73	153
CUT	Matthew Guyatt	AUS	9	76	77	153
CUT	Campbell Rawson	NZL	10	76	78	154
CUT	Cory Crawford	AUS	10	76	78	154
CUT	George Twyman	ENG	10	77	77	154
CUT	James Anstiss	NZL	10	76	78	154
CUT	Peter Wilson	ENG	10	74	80	154
CUT	Robin Dawson	IRL	11	80	75	155
CUT	Clement Berardo	FRA	13	80	77	157
CUT	Antonio Murdaca	AUS	24	84	84	168
RET	Troy Moses	AUS	Par	82	-	82

Pos.	Player	Nat	To Par	R2	Total
1	Cameron Smith	AUS	-9	65	135
T2	Jake McLeod	AUS	-8	70	136
T2	Marc Leishman	AUS	-8	68	136
T4	Christopher Wood	AUS	-7	66	137
T4	Dimitrios Papadatos	AUS	-7	70	137
T4	Matt Jager	AUS	-7	71	137
7	Harold Varner III	USA	-6	69	138
T8	Andrew Johnston	ENG	-5	69	139
T8	Anthony Quayle	AUS	-5	69	139
T8	David Bransdon	AUS	-5	68	139
T8	Gaganjeet Bhullar	IND	-5	70	139
T8	Paul Hayden	AUS	-5	67	139
T13	Mathew Goggin	AUS	-4	72	140
T13	Oliver Farr	WAL	-4	69	140
T13	Robert Allenby	AUS	-4	70	140
T16	Aaron Cockerill	CAN	-3	69	141
T16	Ben Eccles	AUS	-3	71	141
T16	Jae-Woong Eom	KOR	-3	74	141
T16	Jason Scrivener	AUS	-3	73	141
T16	Sam Brazel	AUS	-3	71	141
T21	Aaron Wilkin	AUS	-2	69	142
T21	Daan Huizing	NED	-2	69	142
T21	Damien Jordan	AUS	-2	73	142
T21	Daniel Fox	AUS	-2	69	142
T21	David McKenzie	AUS	-2	69	142
T21	Douglas Klein	AUS	-2	74	142
T21	Frazer Droop	AUS	-2	69	142
T21	Gareth Paddison	NZL	-2	72	142
T21	Harrison Endycott	AUS	-2	72	142
T21	Jarryd Felton	AUS	-2	73	142
T21	Jordan Zunic	AUS	-2	72	142
T21	Matthew Millar	AUS	-2	70	142
T21	Michael Wright	AUS	-2	70	142
T21	Nick Flanagan	AUS	-2	73	142
T21	Nick Taylor	CAN	-2	68	142
T21	Peter Cooke	RSA	-2	69	142
T21	Peter Senior	AUS	-2	70	142
T21	Rhein Gibson	AUS	-2	70	142
T21	Tom Murray	ENG	-2	73	142
T21	Troy Merritt	USA	-2	71	142
T41	Alex Edge	AUS	-1	70	143
T41	Austin Connelly	CAN	-1	71	143
T41	Blake Proverbs	AUS	-1	72	143
T41	Braden Becker	AUS	-1	73	143
T41	Craig Ross	SCO	-1	72	143
T41	Jonathan Thomson	ENG	-1	71	143
T41	Josh Geary	NZL	-1	71	143
T41	Matthew Griffin	AUS	-1	71	143
T41	Matthew Stieger	AUS	-1	69	143
T41	Renato Paratore	ITA	-1	70	143
T41	Ricardo Melo Gouveia	POR	-1	74	143
T41	Rod Pampling	AUS	-1	69	143
T41	Simon Hawkes	AUS	-1	73	143
T41	Steve Allan	AUS	-1	73	143
T41	Terry Pilkadaris	AUS	-1	74	143
T56	Alexander Knappe	GER	Par	74	144
T56	Ashley Hall	AUS	Par	74	144
T56	Daniel Gale	AUS	Par	74	144
T56	Darren Beck	AUS	Par	71	144
T56	Hugues Joannes	BEL	Par	72	144
T56	Jack Munro	AUS	Par	71	144
T56	James Morrison	ENG	Par	75	144
T56	Jason Norris	AUS	Par	74	144
T56	Mark Brown	NZL	Par	73	144
T56	Max McCardle	AUS	Par	68	144
T56	Ross McGowan	ENG	Par	73	144
T56	Ryan Evans	ENG	Par	72	144
T56	Ryan Fox	NZL	Par	75	144
T56	Sean Crocker	USA	Par	71	144
T56	Tim Stewart	AUS	Par	74	144
T56	Zach Murray	AUS	Par	74	144
CUT	Aaron Pike	AUS	1	73	145
CUT	Aaron Townsend	AUS	1	72	145
CUT	Adam Bland	AUS	1	75	145
CUT	Adam Burdett	AUS	1	72	145
CUT	Benjamin Clementson	AUS	1	70	145
CUT	Cameron John	AUS	1	75	145
CUT	Curtis Luck	AUS	1	76	145
CUT	Deyen Lawson	AUS	1	69	145
CUT	Gavin Green	MAS	1	74	145
CUT	Henric Sturehed	SWE	1	73	145
CUT	Jun-Seok Lee	KOR	1	72	145
CUT	Matthew Nixon	ENG	1	73	145
CUT	Nathan Green	AUS	1	72	145
CUT	Ruben Sondjaja	AUS	1	73	145
CUT	Steven Jeffress	AUS	1	76	145
CUT	Wade Ormsby	AUS	1	73	145
CUT	Adrian Otaegui	ESP	2	78	146
CUT	Aron Price	AUS	2	77	146
CUT	Brad Moules	FIJ	2	76	146
CUT	Carl Yuan	CHN	2	76	146
CUT	Dale Williamson	AUS	2	75	146
CUT	David Smail	NZL	2	71	146
CUT	Duncan Stewart	SCO	2	73	146
CUT	Geoff Ogilvy	AUS	2	73	146
CUT	James Nitties	AUS	2	72	146
CUT	Josh Younger	AUS	2	72	146
CUT	Kieran Muir	AUS	2	73	146
CUT	Min-Kyu Kim	KOR	2	74	146
CUT	Peter O'Malley	AUS	2	73	146
CUT	Richard Green	AUS	2	75	146
CUT	Ryan Lynch	AUS	2	73	146
CUT	Cameron Davis	AUS	3	72	147
CUT	Greg Chalmers	AUS	3	74	147
CUT	Jake Higginbottom	AUS	3	74	147
CUT	James Marchesani	AUS	3	73	147
CUT	Jordan Mullaney	AUS	3	70	147
CUT	Michael Hendry	NZL	3	73	147
CUT	Scott Laycock	AUS	3	74	147
CUT	Adam Blyth	AUS	4	78	148
CUT	Daniel Nisbet	AUS	4	73	148
CUT	Harry Ellis	ENG	4	74	148
CUT	Kieran Pratt	AUS	4	74	148
CUT	Mitchell A. Brown	AUS	4	75	148
CUT	Paul Maddy	ENG	4	78	148
CUT	Robert MacIntyre	SCO	4	74	148
CUT	Ryan Chisnall	NZL	4	78	148
CUT	Sam Lee	FIJ	4	75	148
CUT	Scott Hend	AUS	4	72	148
CUT	Taylor MacDonald	FIJ	4	77	148
CUT	Tim Hart	AUS	4	73	148
CUT	Zihao Chen	CHN	4	75	148
CUT	Anthony Marchesani	AUS	5	73	149
CUT	Daniel Gavins	ENG	5	76	149
CUT	David Boote	WAL	5	77	149
CUT	Ewen Ferguson	SCO	5	73	149
CUT	Jack Senior	ENG	5	78	149
CUT	Lucas Herbert	AUS	5	69	149
CUT	Nick Cullen	AUS	5	73	149
CUT	Rick Kulacz	AUS	5	74	149
CUT	John Senden	AUS	6	78	150
CUT	Matthew Lisk	AUS	6	75	150
CUT	Matthew Perry	AUS	6	73	150
CUT	Michael Hoey	NIR	6	72	150
CUT	Chris Duke	AUS	7	76	151
CUT	Cormac Sharvin	NIR	7	73	151
CUT	Daniel Pearce	NZL	7	77	151
CUT	Brett Rankin	AUS	8	77	152
CUT	Dale Brandt-Richards	AUS	8	76	152
CUT	David Cooke	USA	8	79	152
CUT	Jack Wilson	AUS	8	75	152
CUT	Marco Iten	SWE	8	78	152
CUT	Rory Bourke	AUS	8	78	152
CUT	Adam Stephens	AUS	9	76	153
CUT	Connor Syme	SCO	9	76	153
CUT	Marcus Fraser	AUS	9	73	153
CUT	Matthew Guyatt	AUS	9	77	153
CUT	Campbell Rawson	NZL	10	78	154
CUT	Cory Crawford	AUS	10	78	154
CUT	George Twyman	ENG	10	77	154
CUT	James Anstiss	NZL	10	78	154
CUT	Peter Wilson	ENG	10	80	154
CUT	Robin Dawson	IRL	11	75	155
CUT	Clement Berardo	FRA	13	77	157
CUT	Antonio Murdaca	AUS	24	84	168
RET	Troy Moses	AUS	Par	-	82

Australian PGA Championship 2018 - Round 2

Australian PGA Championship 2018

November 29 - December 02

RACV Royal Pines Resort, Queensland, Australia

A$1,500,000

November 29 - December 02

RACV Royal Pines Resort, Queensland, Australia

A$1,500,000

Round 2

Sensational Smith takes lead on Gold Coast

Round 1

Round 3

Round 4

Round 1

Round 3

Round 4

November 30, 2018

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Australian PGA Championship 2018 - Round 2

Australian PGA Championship 2018

November 29 - December 02

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RACV Royal Pines Resort, Queensland, Australia

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Round 2

Sensational Smith takes lead on Gold Coast

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