Cam Smith Is LIV Golf's Only Player in Official Pre-Masters Press Conferences

The British Open champion is the sole player from the Saudi-backed league who will formally visit the Augusta National media center.
Cam Smith Is LIV Golf's Only Player in Official Pre-Masters Press Conferences
Cam Smith Is LIV Golf's Only Player in Official Pre-Masters Press Conferences /

The interview schedule for the 2023 Masters was released on Friday and except for the Champion Golfer of the Year, LIV Golf has been shut out.

Australian Cameron Smith, the 2022 British Open champion, is the only one of the 18 LIV golfers in this year’s field that will be in the interview room before the tournament starts on Thursday.

The list of 14 players that will make the trip to the media center includes three former Masters winners: Jordan Spieth, Tiger Woods and defending champion Scottie Scheffler.

Of the LIV players in the field, Dustin Johnson, Phil Mickelson, Patrick Reed, Charl Schwartzel, Sergio Garcia and Bubba Watson are all previous winners of the green jacket but are not on the interview list.

Smith is the highest-ranked LIV Golf player at No. 5 in the Official World Golf Ranking (No. 11 SIWGR).

The pre-tournament interview schedule at the 2022 Masters included only four past champions: Woods, Spieth, Johnson and Hideki Matsuyama.

The player interview schedule for this year is as follows:

Monday, April 3

1:30 p.m.: Jason Day

2 p.m.: Amateurs Harrison Crowe & Mateo Fernandez de Oliveira

2:30 p.m.: Jordan Spieth

3 p.m.: Cameron Smith

Tuesday, April 4

9:30 a.m.: Rory McIlroy

10 a.m.: Jon Rahm

10:30 a.m.: Tom Kim

11 a.m.: Tiger Woods

1:30 p.m.: Justin Thomas

2 p.m.: Matthew Fitzpatrick

2:30 p.m.: Max Homa

3 p.m.: Scottie Scheffler

3:30 p.m.: Patrick Cantlay 


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Alex Miceli, a journalist and radio/TV personality who has been involved in golf for 26 years, was the founder of Morning Read and eventually sold it to Buffalo Groupe. He continues to contribute writing, podcasts and videos to SI.com. In 1993, Miceli founded Golf.com, which he sold in 1999 to Quokka Sports. One year later, he founded Golf Press Association, an independent golf news service that provides golf content to news agencies, newspapers, magazines and websites. He served as the GPA’s publisher and chief executive officer. Since launching GPA, Miceli has written for numerous newspapers, magazines and websites. He started GolfWire in 2000, selling it nine years later to Turnstile Publishing Co.