{"id":1254653,"date":"2024-11-24T11:21:41","date_gmt":"2024-11-24T11:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/?p=1254653"},"modified":"2024-11-27T15:56:01","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T15:56:01","slug":"bmw-australian-pga-championship-2024-r3-elvis-smylie-wins-maiden-dp-world-tour-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/bmw-australian-pga-championship-2024-r3-elvis-smylie-wins-maiden-dp-world-tour-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Elvis Smylie wins maiden DP World Tour title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elvis Smylie signed for a bogey-free 67 to win his first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.europeantour.com\/dpworld-tour\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DP World Tour<\/a> title at the BMW Australian PGA Championship by two shots at 14-under.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My short game was great, I definitely saved myself in that department. I was pretty average off the tee, but golf is a game of imperfection and today that was a sign of that,&#8221; said Smylie.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just told myself to find a way of getting it around and doing my best, executing every shot as well as I can and my short game was great, so I gave that the full credit that it deserves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Round 3 Highlights | Elvis Smylie WINS | 2025 BMW Australian PGA Championship\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eH3EOeCkAAA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Smylie won his first professional title at the Bowra &amp; O&#8217;Dea Nexus Advisernet WA Open last month on the PGA Tour of Australasia.<\/p>\n<p>He was one of two players to receive the Cameron Smith Scholarship in 2019 and shared the lead with Smith after the second round.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a dream come true,&#8221; said Smylie . &#8220;I just said to Matt [Clayton, his caddie] that I won&#8217;t forget this day, you know, playing with Cam and Leish there.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I looked up to these guys since I was a kid and just being in their presence and to compete against them for the title, I&#8217;ve learnt so much and just so grateful and so honoured right now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Smith made four bogeys and six birdies to close with a 69 and finish runner-up at 12-under.<\/p>\n<p>Marc Leishman closed with a 69 to finish in third place at 11-under alongside Anthony Quayle who shot a bogey-free 63.<\/p>\n<p>David Micheluzzi carded a final-round 69 to complete the all-Australian top-5.<\/p>\n<div id=\"content_link_1254649\" class=\"ct-div-block content-link_wrap\"><a class=\"ct-link content-link_image-wrap\" href=\"https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/rsm-classic-2024-r3-vince-whaley-maverick-mcnealy-top-leaderboard\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Vince-Whaley-150x150.jpg\" class=\"content-link_image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Vince-Whaley-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Vince-Whaley-250x250.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><div class=\"ct-div-block content-link_content\"><a class=\"ct-link\" href=\"https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/rsm-classic-2024-r3-vince-whaley-maverick-mcnealy-top-leaderboard\/\"><h5 class=\"ct-headline content-link_title\"><strong>Related:<\/strong> Vince Whaley &amp; Maverick McNealy top leaderboard after 54 holes<\/h5><\/a><div class=\"ct-text-block content-link_text\">The RSM Classic R3<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p>For the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> in the golfing world, follow us on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GolfTodayUK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/x.com\/GolfTodayUK&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1718123050082000&amp;usg=AOvVaw21kBF4AVkP1f9mDUOnAp4_\"><strong>X<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BMW Australian PGA Championship R3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1254685,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":69,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,29],"tags":[10147,103,98,10148,9834,6151,9016],"class_list":["post-1254653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dp-world-tour","category-the_tours","tag-bmw-australian-pga-championship","tag-cameron-smith","tag-dp-world-tour","tag-elvis-smylie","tag-royal-queensland-gc","tag-tournament-reduced","tag-weather-affected"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - 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