Slow play warning rattles Cameron Smith, who plummets down Australian Open leaderboard

It does not take much to throw a golfer off his groove.

Just ask Cameron Smith, who, through 9 holes during Friday’s second round at the Australian Open, sat at 11-under par overall. He was squarely in the mix, jockeying with fellow Australian Lucas Herbert for the pole position.

But Smith made a mess of things on the back nine, carding a 5-over 41, a stretch that included three bogeys on the 10th, 12th, and 15th holes and a double-bogey on the par-4 16th. This stumble came after officials put Smith’s group on the clock for slow play.

“We got on the clock there and it didn’t seem like

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