The high school junior was bold enough to approach six-time PGA Tour winner Cameron Smith in the TPC Sawgrass clubhouse last March during the week of The Players Championship.
“Hi,” the young man said, sticking his hand out. “I’m Cam Smith.”
“Cool,” the eventual winner of The Players Championship said.
“Then I just walked away,” Camden Smith said.
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But he wants the world to know something.
“I had the mullet before he did,” said the Ponte Vedra High senior who shot 68 on Saturday to work his way into contention in the second round of the American Junior Golf Association Junior Players Championship, at the Players Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass.
He also has a flat-brimmed Titleist hat and the big smile. Time will tell if Camden Smith develops the game that Cameron Smith possesses but the signs are pointing in the right direction.
Smith, a native of…
