Cameron Smith is eyeing to turn his year around at the 2025 BMW Australian PGA Championship after struggling all year. The Aussie golfer returns to the prestigious Royal Queensland Golf Club after finishing solo-second in the competition last year. Now, the LIV golfer enters the week on the back of a ‘frustrating’ year.

Smith, who failed to make a podium in 14 LIV Golf and four major championship outings, believes he “played like c**p” this season. Notably, the 32-year-old’s best finish of 2025 came at LIV Golf Mexico City where he finished T5. The three-time winner on the breakaway tour is set to have his son Remy to Australia for the first time on this trip.

Revealing his motive to win, the golfer admitted it ‘would be cool’ to emerge victorious on his son’s first Australian PGA Championship, one of two Australian majors on the Challenger PGA Tour of Australasia calendar. The former PGA Tour star expressed interest in a strong finish at the Australian Open, taking place a week after the Royal Queensland event.

Three-time Australian PGA winner Cameron Smith said on Monday, as quoted by Australian Golf Digest:

“Yeah that (winning the BMW Australian PGA Championship with son in attendance) would be cool; I haven’t really thought about that because I’ve been playing like c**p but that would be awesome and maybe that’s a good thing to think about and get me amped up for this week…

I’m looking forward to (the Australian PGA and Open). I feel like the game is in a good enough spot to compete. Obviously, Royal Queensland is a course that I love and have played well at… I’ve never really played with expectations, so, I don’t think there’s anything that I really need to do. I think what I need to do is prepare well and and then just forget about it, to be honest. I’ve got good memories from last year.”

For the unversed, Cameron Smith was in the final group at a rain-shortened, 54-hole Australian PGA Championship last year. The ace golfer settled for the runner-up spot as compatriot Elvis Smylie clinched the victory on final day. This weekend, the LIV star will face competition from a stacked field featuring the likes of Min Woo Lee, Adam Scott, Marc Leishman, Marco Penge and Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen.

Meanwhile, Masters champion Rory McIlroy is set to headline next week’s Australian Open.

Cameron Smith’s 2025 performance explored

Cameron Smith arrives at the 2025 BMW Australian PGA Championship after finishing 18th on LIV Golf’s season-long standings. The ace golfer, who started off his year with a T25 finish at LIV Golf Riyadh, failed to make any podium finishes all season. In comparison, the 32-year-old had three top-two finishes on the breakaway tour last year.

For the unversed, Smith teed off 2025 after a busy November December where he played three back-to-back DP World Tour sanctioned events featuring the two Australian majors. The golfer settled for a T71 finish at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship, before managing a solo-second place at the BMW Australian PGA Championship. However, he failed to replicate the result at the ISPS Handa Australian Open, where he finished T39.

Now, he returns to events after missing the cut in all four majors and two Official World Golf Rankings events, which includes last week’s PIF Saudi International 2025 in Saudi Arabia.

Listed below is the complete list of Cameron Smith’s outings in 2025:

• LIV Golf Riyadh – T25 (-7)
• LIV Golf Adelaide – 30 (-1)
• LIV Golf Hong Kong – T20 (-7)
• LIV Golf Singapore – T19 (-4)
• LIV Golf Miami – T9 (+1)
• Masters Tournament – Missed Cut (+5)
• LIV Golf Mexico City – T5 (-11)
• LIV Golf Korea – T7 (-8)
• PGA Championship – Missed Cut (+7)
• LIV Golf Virginia – T23 (-5)
• U.S. Open – Missed Cut (+8)
• LIV Golf Dallas – T13 (-2)
• LIV Golf Andalucía – T7 (-2)
• The Open – Missed Cut (+8)
• LIV Golf United Kingdom – 10 (-8)
• LIV Golf Chicago – T29 (E)
• LIV Golf Indianapolis – T14 (-13)
• LIV Golf Michigan – T44 (+1)

More details on Cameron Smith’s 2025 BMW Australian PGA Championship outing will be updated as the event progress.