Final Round Highlights | 2026 Crown Australian Open

Highlights of the final days play at the Crown Australian Open saw Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen defeat home favourite Cam Smith at Royal Melbourne.

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The DP World Tour continues its double header Down Under with the Crown Australian Open at Royal Melbourne Golf Club. After a 20-year absence, this week sees golf’s global Tour return to the renowned Royal Melbourne Golf Club for the fifth time. It previously staged the Heinekin Classic for four consecutive years between 2002-2005. This is the 17th time the men’s Crown Australian Open – co-sanctioned by the DP World Tour and PGA TOUR of Australasia since 2022 – has been held at the venue and the first since since 1991. Royal Melbourne was most recently under the international golf microscope when it hosted the Presidents Cup in 2019. At the top of the field is Rory McIlroy, making his 2026 DP World Tour season debut. McIlroy may be the headline name, but there are plenty of other draw cards for the home crowds. Among those are Major champions Adam Scott, Cam Smith and Geoff Ogilvy. Min Woo Lee draws strong support too, while fellow Antipodeans Ryan Fox, Daniel Hillier and Kazuma Kobori will be out to impress. There is a strong international presence, with South Korea’s Si Woo Kim, Mexico’s Carlos Ortiz and Japan’s Ryo Hisatsune among those to receive an invite.

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Haven’t seen a whole lot of the American this week, but going along nicely at five under his second shot to four. It’s a nice wind into this pin, but you also have Hello. Hello. And a two on four to that flag. Seriously, man. should slide a little to his right. Bird’s on two and three. He was nine back to start. Only seven back now. Could it happen? Perfect spot. Good angle. Yeah. 137. This is on a great line. Buffer a breeze into him here. Oh, that’s fantastic. Under the hole now. cam on the first about two or three paces of French grass to go through and the last couple of steps a little bit pacy. This is just one of them you really concentrate on the pace. You could tell this 10 ft out. You could tell. You can always tell with Cam Smith, can’t you? All right. to keep the Rory dream alive after a bogey at seven. Shot into eight. Back left pin. Good flag here at the short par four. Lots of things you don’t want to do to it. That’s what you do want to do. Helier slick left to right putt. If that falls, that’s from the top edge. Just in time. Yeah, Minw needs to start firing at some pins. And that’s a good start. It’s going direct at this pin. A, this one’s just slow. Back up the hill here. What a pass for Adam Scots to remain in that share of fifth. Don’t count him out. Three back. trying to bring it back. Walking it in. Minu Lee with a spectacular pass to bounce back in a hurry from that bogey at four. I should have got a good idea of the speed up the hill from Ortiz. More aggressive stroke. bouncing back in style right in the middle for the Kiwi. He’s learned quickly there. It’s a nice win for it. A little bit off the left, but you can’t be greedy here. It’s such a start. Absolutely picture perfect. Could have not draw a better picture here. How aggressive will he be? [Applause] Crowd love it. And that’s why a kick in birdie. Aggressive enough. The 14 under. Minu Lee up the hill on seven. Can he get the distance right? Minu 140 here. This has gone way up in the air. Good line. That’s a great view. Shows you everything you need to know about that shot. And that is unbelievable. That is 11 out of 10. Mo nice and firm up the hill. Stayed there. Hit a good putt. Swings a long way from the left. follows. I spoke too soon. Breeze helping just a little here at number seven. Wedge for Cam Smith on a good line. This one looking good. Didn’t look to bounce back there. Now Matt Mccardi, left-handed American. This is an unusual wine. Marshall was thinking that was going over the back, but I’m sorry, professionals do put spin on their golf ball to get that bogey back. He’s got it dead center for the Queenslander. returns to 13 under six under round when others were struggling. As you can see, his number hasn’t changed until now. Eagle parted 14. Little less speed. It was in Daniel Hilly up. It’s not far from uh where the pin position was on day two. He’s found it on day four with a birdie three there. World class from down there from a man who’s been on top of the world. Here’s the trip for Cam Smith. 159 out of the rough. This will release when it hits the green downwind. It’s coming. Opportunity for Cam Smith perhaps. 148. This has taken a great line. Was hidden when it bounced by the flag stick cuz it was right on line for Adam Scott. Yes, he can. Come on. The hills of Royal Melbourne are alive with the sound of Australian golf fans and Cam Smith is the outright leader. The crowd tells the story. The galleries haven’t left him. Rory Maroy. Can he prompt a roar here for birdie on 17? Hasn’t had a birdie since the eighth. Mark him down for another one. He loves the par five. 17. Couple of players from up here. Missed this right. So fooled a couple today. Oh, what a roll. Near guard Peterson right back in the picture at 13 under. [Applause] It’s coming. A grand stand finish for the world number two. [Applause] [Music] staying out there. Did not break right. So he’ll leave with a share of the lead alongside Diear Peterson from the sand. Oh, that’s exquisite. Birdie at 14. The scoring opportunities loom large right now on the back nine, don’t they? 13 14 15 17 good shots play anywhere just like that did for Sarat who had to work a little harder for that than he’d like at 14 finds the bottom nonetheless. Back to near guard Peterson here. So good. Come on, baby. Oh, look out. Meard Peterson nearly pulling out the eagle. [Applause] The finest of margins here at Royal Melbourne at 280 off the te maybe ahead of him to Elvis with half of Melbourne ahead of him here from the front edge of 17. What a great effort. What a great effort. [Music] Just for a split second, it almost looked like it would get there, but it’s going to be a tap in birdie. Oh, sensational for Regal. Needs to be aggressive with this one up the hill. And I guess as he has for the four rounds, he’s just fractionally fallen short. Adam Scott [Applause] Stay there, guys. Stay there. Over the sprinkler head and on. [Applause] This for eagle for near Peterson. It was a centimeter away if not closer and then snapped. So a tap in birdie and he’s minus 15. It’s tracking. It’s in for Smith and they’ll go up the 72nd hole. All tied at 15 under 165 and a good flag for Raasmus [Music] again. Sending it in high this one cutting. It’s also dangerously right. Wow. It’s on the grass, not even in the sand. That’s a nightmare scenario for the Dane. And the door opens for the Aussie. much flattered ball fight. They starting well left to the flag and the crowd super excited understandably so, but it’s no easy two from there. Very good effort. still rolling. Not to [Applause] It’s got some speed about it and it’s not dead yet. What a punch. Here go Peterson. First in at 15 under. His marker has a quote on it. It is what it is and not what it’s for. It’s a mantra he lives by. A 10-footer is a 10-footer. From the 26y old from Denmark. If he goes on to win that will be remembered for a very long time. That is almost plaquew worthy. [Applause] [Music] It’s not to be for Cam Smith and Rasmus. near guard Peterson. He’s the Australian Open champion moving up and down of incredible proportions and he’s off to Augusta in 2026. A life-changing week and his Australian caddy wins his ashes. Raasmus versus 33,000 people. Throw it down to Yuan. Yes, thank you Alli. And Raasmus, you’ve been so close so many times after the last 12 months on the DP World Tour. You finally got that first victory here at one of the most historic championships in the world of professional golf. And what a way to do it. Can you describe how special this moment is? It’s It’s hard. I’m I’m really at a at a loss for words. Uh it’s it’s been a battle all day. You know, even from the outside, you sometimes you can look calm, but it was uh it was a storm inside all day today, but I managed to just keep battling. Um and then to get it up and down from there uh to make that put on last uh uh just I don’t really know what to say to be honest. Well, you started the day with a two-h shot lead. Can you tell me about the roller coaster of emotions because at one point you were two strokes behind and you were battling the entire crowd as well. Yeah, again it’s it’s one of those things I feel like I did like I’ve done the other couple days like I’ve been able to finish well. Um so I always had that belief that if I just keep, you know, trying to hit my spots, eventually the putts were going to drop and I was going to be able to to get some of those shots back. So obviously the birdie on 12 there was huge. Um getting getting back into a tie for the lead there. Um and then yeah, coming in uh I don’t it’s it’s kind of hard right now. I can’t almost can’t remember the shots really, but uh yeah, I just uh at a loss for words. 12 months ago, you were playing the Hotel Planner Tour. You’re now a winner on the DP Walk Tour. You own a PDGA tour card, and you’ve now uh earned a coveted Masters Invitation. What does that mean to you? It means the world. The Masters is the event I’ve grown up watching so many times, just dreaming of playing it. So, to get to do that is is awesome. And then it’s it’s gone by so fast. I don’t feel like it’s I don’t feel like it’s been two what two and a half years since I’ve been out of college. So, I haven’t even been a pro for that long. So, to get the win here and my final event of the season was the the little little thing the only thing missing for quite a perfect season. So, so happy. Congratulations. It’s very welld deserved to go and make it official. Thank you. Approaching 7:00 a.m. in Copenhagen and this man will be making headlines back home. the first Dane ever to win the Crown Australian Open. So Raasmus Negard Peterson now has the Augusta symbol next to his name. He wins the Stone Haven Cup from Cam Smith and Adam Scott has now booked his spot at Royal Burgar with that outright fifth one of three players to get their ticket to the Open. A worthy champion upstaging the Queenslander Cam Smith. To watch another DP World Tour video, click here. And to subscribe, click here.