'They're gone' - Open winner Cameron Smith set to join LIV Golf, claims fellow Australian player Cameron Percy

Cameron Smith is set to join the breakaway Saudi-backed LIV Golf Series, a fellow Australian golfer has claimed. Rumours have strongly connected the winner of The Open with a move to the series, which has attracted a number of golf's biggest names this year. Ad Phil Mickelson, Sergio Garcia, Lee Westwood and Dustin Johnson were among those to join ahead of the first event in June, while American trio Bryson DeChambeau, Brooks Koepka and Patrick Reed have all also since defected.

The Open'Keep Cam and carry on' – Why Tiger should be inspired by Smith’s maverick Open triumph19/07/2022 AT 22:52 It has been suggested that Smith, the current world No. 2 and also a winner of The Players Championship, may join LIV Golf after the PGA Tour's FedEx Cup playoffs. According to tour veteran Cameron Percy, deals to take Smith and another Australian in Marc Leishman to the Invitational Series are in place, and the 48-year-old questioned the decision of his compatriots.

«Unfortunately, yeah, they're gone,» Percy said of Smith and Leishman to RSN Radio Australia in Melbourne. “The more and more you look into it, some people don’t care, some people have got a conscience and do care. “It really comes down to, you know, ‘they just executed 80 people this week, just chopped their heads off’.

They’re not the nicest people in the world. “Do you just look past that and go, ‘Oh well, I’m rich I don’t really care’. It’s a tough one, it really is.” The first of three FedEx Cup playoff events will be held this weekend at the St.