The Queenslander has long been a supporter of Australian events, and is a two-time Australian PGA winner. The World No.2 telling Sunrise on Channel 7 this morning that he will be heading home later this year and golf is on the radar.

“Yeah mate, my plan is to come back and play those couple at the end of the year,” Smith told the show. “Just really spend some time at home as well. I haven’t been home for three years now, so that’s probably my priority over playing golf but the plan so far is to play some golf as well.”

Smith’s presence would be a huge coup for the Australian Open that will be played for the first time since 2019 after the showpiece event was cancelled twice due to COVID and will this year see the men’s and women’s tournaments played concurrently on the Melbourne Sandbelt.

Playing the Fortinet Australian PGA at Royal Queensland would be something of a homecoming for the Wantima Country Club product who will surely spend plenty of time at his old stomping ground celebrating with the members and his family.

Celebrating has understandably been the flavour of the week for Australia’s fifth winner of the Claret Jug since he returned home to Florida following his triumph in Scotland on Sunday.

“It’s been long, I feel like it hasn’t stopped yet,” the 28-year-old said of the celebrations. “I am pretty tired at the minute. Just everyone back here in JAX (Jacksonville) has been very supportive and obviously everyone’s wanted to have a beer with me. So it hasn’t stopped yet and I don’t think it is going to stop for a little bit.”

"My plan is to come back and play those couple at the end of the year. Just really spend some time at home as well. I haven’t been home for three years now, so that’s probably my priority over playing golf but the plan so far is to play some golf as well.” - Cam Smith.

And after testing out the beer holding capacity of the famed trophy, Smith hasn’t been shy in seeing how other drinks taste when poured out of a trophy that will surely make the trip back home to Brisbane when Smith does later in the year.

“There has been everything in it so far and it’s been a lot already and I’ve only had it for three or four days.”