In this LIV Golf Singapore edition of Heng Time, Su-Ann Heng meets up with Ripper GC captain Cam Smith at Sentosa Golf Club to play a hole and talk about his team’s epic playoff win at LIV Golf Adelaide, life as a newly married man, and future plans to run a coffee shop.
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welcome to hang time this week we’re here in Singapore on the back end of Australia and who better to have this week than the captain of last week’s team champion the Ripper juicy it’s cam Smith let’s [Applause] go uh Welcome to My Country cam thank you I apologize about the Heat and the rain and the humidity uh I don’t mind the hate um the humidity is a little bit a little bit much um but I love Singapore I love this golf course I think it’s uh it’s definitely up the top of of what we’re playing this year I think the greens we put on this week are probably the best greens we put on all year um so yeah I’m looking forward to the week wow I’m very proud for the fact that you just said that thank you that’s awesome all right let’s watch your tea off perfect this is uh no pressure this is one of the tightest Fairways on the you pied the good one yeah it it it’s pure this is my job to hit multiple shots in a row good so oh I don’t know that’s arguably better well you got the where’s the whole location today little bit close for comfort that one but you’re you’re on the darker green of the Fairway well cam first of all congratulations uh for your very first team win this year especially in Adelaide it’s been two and a half seasons and we finally had our very first team playoff what was that experience like for you oh Matt it was it was epic it was I I don’t think you could have scripted it any better to begin with but I think uh I think that’s the most nervous I’ve ever been to have you know basically the whole of Australia U begging you know two players to to win um it was pretty nerve-wracking but it was so epic at the same time it was so cool that the crowd seemed like it was you on the left hand side of 18 I don’t know if you could even see the 10th te it was crazy well I tried to look for your first t-shot on that playoff hole and I had to kind of SW swim my way through the crowd to get to your t-shot that must have been so special um now it must have been so challenging for you to have to pick two players on your team yeah I mean this is the first time we’ve ever done it so I mean what was going through your mind what was some of your strategies um and honestly how difficult was it yeah it was it was tough because um leash and uh Herby had just shot Seven under um but they’d also probably had 15 20 minutes before they’d hit a golf shot um so I was a little bit worried about that it was it was chilly it wasn’t warm it wasn’t like this um nothing’s like this Jonesy just finished they’ watched watched him kind of the everything that was going on with Lou part he was in the same group um so there was a lot of there was a lot of stuff happening all at once and um I think leash come over to me straight away and he said I’m ready to go he had his ball in his hand um and he just seemed super confident so um you know I wanted to pick him obviously uh but then for myself I mean I just bogied the whole you know 10 minutes ago so I wasn’t really feeling that confident um and then Jonesy just come up to us and said it’s used to it’s not even a question it used to just go and get it done and um we got it done in the end but how did that make you feel when Jonesy actually said that to you um yeah I mean I think I think really any one of us could have got it done any combination could have done got it done um but it just goes to show what I I think what kind of team we have we’re all kind of uh we’re all brothers and we all love each other and um at times we all lean on each other and and um yeah for him to say something like that in that moment was pretty cool I have to say that was certainly if not the highlight of my career as a broadcaster that was pretty awesome and and adelay certainly showed up for you guys and I’m sure you just was so happy to see that now post um round post playoff you guys went into a casino and go got quite the reception in there were you surprised um yes uh I wasn’t expecting that one um I think everyone must have gone straight from the golf course to the casino obviously there was a lot of Ripper hats in there um we we had actually uh we were at the hotel and we had a couple of beers together um um and then we went to a pub and had a few more beers and then we eventually went there and um it wasn’t wasn’t really expecting that it was um it was pretty cool that is awesome now after that did you have a Champions dinner of any sort I heard you maybe might have G to McDonald’s did you go to mackers uh yeah yeah yeah um no my my wife went wanted to go to McDonald’s I I got a kebab in oh you did oh that’s such an Australian thing to do after a night of drinking that’s awesome um speaking of your wife the last time we did hang time you weren’t married yet yep what’s married life been like for you uh it’s the same honestly she she’s so cool um nothing’s really changed in our lives I think um she’s she’s able to to spend a little bit more time with me now on the road um which is which is really nice I know she enjoys that she gets to see beautiful places like this and um she was able to see Adelaide last last week which she wasn’t able to do the year before and um I was kind of prepping her for that but her mind was blown so yeah it’s um it’s been awesome oh she she must have been so nervous on that 18th green I think everyone was the whole crowd was well this is a solid t-shot cam I mean first three of these yeah AB I’ll take three I’ll take a 100 of these what do we have here s 131 and 20 151 two up to 53 mostly off your right no much there what you got I think it might come out a little bit hot out of here what’s this nine yeah all right these greens are quite big this week MH I think I think the smallest is like 37 Paces long I think it is yeah most of them are like between 45 to 50 they’re pretty big this good one of these in yeah okay keep drawing keep drawing it should oh great shot great shot it yeah got a little got a little bit of J something I know about Australians is how passionate you guys are about your coffees I mean oh my goodness are you passionate about coffee I heard that it’s perhaps one of your dreams to open up a cafe is that true yeah absolutely I think uh once once it’s all said and done I think um I’d love to run a c coffee shop and where um I mean probably in Brisbane would be nice my home uh but uh yeah I don’t know it’s just something that I’ve always loved it’s something that I’ve always loved kind of marking around with in the morning and uh different ways of doing coffee and and stuff like that um yeah so I’d love to share it with people would you be the Barista um behind your no I’m terrible I’m terrible can you draw hearts and stuff with the I can do I can do a heart that’s about as as much as I can do I mean people can do like swans and it’s crazy what they can do it’s I mean in Japan people are doing Hello Kitties and like Pokemon and I’m like how do you do that it’s insane I know it’s crazy um what kind of coffee do you like how do you drink your coffee I I mix it up a lot to be honest um but um I’m on a diet at the moment I’m trying to lose a little bit of the belly so no no milk I’m just uh just black coffee at the moment something tells me that the few shoes and the few pints on Sunday night probably didn’t do your diet any favored no no um yeah the diet kind of went out the window there for a couple of days but um you know we’re back on it now yeah I know it’s awesome um so that was our very first playoff as I said the team playoff it must have been fun difficult exciting all the different emotions that sort of encompasses into that one hour what did you learn about yourself and what did you learn about your team um I think what I learned about the team was we’re all just so tight-knit and we’re all so happy for each other um I mean I’m I’m so proud of those guys I mean really what we what we did at the start of the week with with media um you know all the commitments that we had it was so tiring um and then to come out and and you know represent a country really and and do what he did in at home uh was pretty special so um yeah just super proud well I know you’ve played in Majors you’ve won a major where do you rank last week’s experience in your career um it’s right up there it’s it’s tough to say um that it beats the open it’s in Andrews um but as far as fan you know experience the emotion that was in everyone’s eyes and and stuff like that it was number one it’s it’s crazy what that week does um to Australian golf fans it’s it’s it was our best tournament last year I think we exceeded every expectation again this year and um we already can’t wait to get back next year well I can’t wait to get back to Adelaide already so I can’t wait anyway thank you for hanging out with me no worries thank you stay hydrated this week play well can’t wait to watch you guys uh maybe even win another team title that’d be nice that’ be nice thanks for having us this week thank you of course see you
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What a legend. And cam ain't too bad either.