Cameron Smith

Cameron Smith (born 18 June 1983) is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who currently captains the Australian national team, the Queensland State of Origin team, as well as his National Rugby League club, the Melbourne Storm. A goal-kicking hooker, he has played his whole NRL career to date with the Storm with whom he won the 2006 Dally M Medal and the 2007, 2009 and 2012 NRL Grand Finals. In 2007 Smith was awarded the Golden Boot Award as the world's best international player and he captained Australia to victory in the 2013 World Cup.

Early life

Born 18 June 1983 in Brisbane, Queensland, as a youth Smith was hooker for the Logan Brothers Junior Rugby League Club, Logan City. There he attended Marsden State High School. After scoring 188 points for the Norths Devils in the Queensland Cup he moved up to the NRL with the Melbourne Storm club.

NRL career

2000s

Smith's first two games for Melbourne were during the 2002 NRL season, both played at half-back. The following year he played as the Storm's hooker. In 2003 the Queensland rugby league team were without a specialist hooker. After experimenting with different players in the position for the first two matches of the 2003 State of Origin series and losing both, Smith was named at hooker for the third match (and for the next six years no other player would wear the number 9 for the Maroons until this run of 19 consecutive Origins was cut due to injury). He was named the Melbourne Storm's rookie of the year in 2003.

Cameron Smith (disambiguation)

Cameron Smith (born 1983) is an Australian rugby league footballer.

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Cameron Smith (golfer)

Cameron Smith (born 18 August 1993) is an Australian professional golfer. He was a member of the Golf Australia national squad. He turned professional in 2013.

Smith has played on the PGA Tour of Australasia since 2013. His best finish is tied for second at the 2015 Coca-Cola Queensland PGA Championship.

Smith played on the Asian Tour in 2014, finishing in the top-10 seven times and finishing 5th on the Order of Merit. His best finish was tied for second at the CIMB Niaga Indonesian Masters.

Smith has been coached and mentored since 2004 by Golf Queensland coach Grant Field.

After qualifying for the 2015 U.S. Open, his top-4 finish earned him an invitation to the 2016 Masters Tournament. The finish also earned Smith Special Temporary Membership on the PGA Tour for the remainder of the 2014–15 season. Smith earned his 2015–16 PGA Tour card by earning enough as a non-member to have been in the top 125 on the money list.

Amateur wins