PGA Championship 2026: Even Cam Smith admitted it was nice to be back
Cam Smith made a strong showing at the 2026 PGA Championship after struggling in previous majors. He secured a top-five finish, marking his first since the 2023 U.S. Open. Smith attributed his improved performance to a recent coaching change, which has boosted his confidence.
- ▪Cam Smith missed six consecutive cuts in majors before the 2026 PGA Championship.
- ▪He finished with a second straight 68, achieving a top-five finish in a major for the first time since 2023.
- ▪Smith switched coaches, moving from Grant Field to Claude Harmon, which he believes has improved his game.
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- ▪ Cam Smith joins crowded field in contention for PGA Championship — The Sydney Morning Herald
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| Original publisher | Yahoo Sports |
| Canonical URL | https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/pga-championship-2026-even-cam-222019338.html |
| Publication time | Sun, 17 May 2026 22:20:19 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-17T22:33:21.086Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-17T22:33:21.086Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
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| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | HCJrPfs9qtr4 · 2 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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