Cam Smith and his Ripper GC teammates Matt Jones, Marc Leishman, and Lucas Herbert spoke to the media after the all-Australian team won the LIV Adelaide event in front of a home crowd.
yeah I am flabbergasted actually it’s um
I think we’re all
flabbergasted yeah it’s it’s um I think
we’re all exhausted um it’s it’s been a
very long week um and for it to end the
way it did was like you said a storybook
ending um it it was so cool all the boys
played really well I think we all
finished in the top 12 or 13 or
something um which is something we
probably haven’t done as a team before
so that’s that’s pretty cool as well
um for everyone to show up uh at our
home event and and play really solid
golf so
um yeah I think we’re all ready for a
beer and and and a uh and a long
sleep um yeah it it wasn’t easy uh uh
not an easy decision I just made bogey
on on 18 and
um yeah we kind of all talked about it
uh we had a good chat um obviously leash
and and Herby um show a really good
score today so they were kind of on fire
but
um yeah it I think um I mean in the end
it was it was the right decision um do I
think it would have mattered um probably
not I think um any one of these guys
could have stepped up there and and got
the job done and um you know I I think
uh you know today for myself was about
digging deep I I didn’t really have my
best stuff out there but um
you know we did it in that first playoff
hole um we both made pretty good passs
and um kept us in the in the golf
tournament so um yeah it was it
was I think it could have gone either
way I think any one of us could have
done it the fan support walking down
every Fairway is it’s not even close to
any event you’ll ever experience for
myself personally the amount of times
you get say go rippers go Jonesy is
unbelievable and that doesn’t happen
very often so it was definitely that I
asked per if we could play a fourth
round this week just cuz I wanted to
experience what we have experienced all
this week for another day it was just
phenomenal the amount of support we have
had a week from the guy from from the
fans um I think I earned a few new
nicknames out there but um really yeah
was share there is I heard Wingnut a few
times to feel like might be semi
appropriate um
yeah I I I couldn’t narrow it down
[Laughter]
stick Mark um obviously that part I made
on 18 in the first playoff hole was
pretty good uh how we got out of that I
don’t really know out of that hole we
were done and dusted by looks of it um
but and then I can’t remember if it was
going to the second playoff hole or
after we’d won already but walking from
the kind of the clubhouse around to the
10th Ted on the golf carts and just the
fans just all screaming at you screaming
your name uh that’s something that that
I’ll remember forever and um I think all
of the the experience the experiences
that we had this week that are
memorable um will be pretty much due to
the fans because I was so good
cam um I’d probably have to say leash’s
part as well although I was absolutely
myself on on my part uh that
had to come but it that’s that’s as loud
of award as I’ve I’ve ever heard and and
then probably um again after I made mine
was was pretty special so yeah to get
out of that um especially with with
Louis and Dino hitting you know the two
perfect shots really how you have to
play the hole um and then uh Le and I
kind of um yeah not not playing it the
way it should be played but um yeah
getting out of that um hearing the crowd
was was pretty cool this week has far
exceeded um my vision uh for what was
what was uh ahead um I I think I always
knew internally that Australia would
really Embrace live with the with the
culture with the music uh with the
entertainment everything that goes on
around it I always felt like um this is
the place where it was going to make it
big and um how what’s been the last
couple of years has been uh just insane
I I mean last year you know I said I’m
bu this is the best tournament I’ve ever
played I think um I think this year it’s
it’s done it again so
it’s it’s so cool we just don’t get to
experience this um and and being the
home team um makes it so much more
special and and what these guys have
done uh this week even makes it better
again so um
yeah it’s really cool
