The Shellharbour, NSW professional, who's been battling to make a living mainly on the Asian Tour, was the one Australian above all who ended up hitting the jackpot at the inaugural Greg Norman-fronted LIV Invitational series event at St Albans, north of London.

Following on from his previous weekend's breakthrough in the Asian Tour's International Series event – also in England and similarly funded by Saudi money – Smyth left the Centurion Club on Saturday night, having earned $US741,000 ($A1.1 million) in just seven days.

So in just two tournaments, the 27-year-old, who's been a professional for five years, has effectively more than doubled his career earnings in the space of seven days.

Prior to his second-place finish in the International Series event which finished at Slaley Hall the previous Sunday, Smyth had won $US32,000 ($A45,000) all season on the Asian Tour.

"I've worked my butt off and now I'm here. I don't know if it's life changing, and you would want to hope it doesn't change you as a person – but it's definitely going to help financially." - Travis Smyth.

But his second-place finish at Slaley Hall netted him $US220,000 ($A312,000) alone, four times as much as he'd ever won in an event before, and earned him entry to the real Aladdin's cave – the LIV Golf launch event.

At Centurion, Smyth may have had an ordinary week, shooting 10-over-par for the three rounds to finish joint 33rd among the 48 players, yet that was still enough to earn him an extraordinary $US146,000 ($A207,000).

But his real stroke of luck was to finish second in the team event, carried largely by three players – Peter Uihlien, Richard Bland and Phachara Khongwatmai – who all outperformed him.

That earned the World No.395 a quarter share of another $1.5 million ($A2.1 million) pot, meaning the three-day Centurion event netted him an eye-watering $US521,000 ($A739,000) in total.

"I feel like I deserve it," Smyth had said before the tournament began, as he pondered the prospect of his mega pay-day.

"I've worked my butt off and now I'm here. I don't know if it's life changing, and you would want to hope it doesn't change you as a person – but it's definitely going to help financially."

Five other Australians earned monster pay cheques from Centurion too.

Wade Ormsby earned $US170,000 ($A241,000) for finishing 22nd equal, while Matt Jones, one of those banned by the PGA Tour for joining the 'rebel' series, takes home $US163,000 ($A231,000).

Kevin Yuan's $US146,000 ($A207,000) for finishing joint 33rd alongside Smyth was four times as much as he'd ever won at any event before – the $US34,000 ($A48,000) he won at Slaley Hall six days earlier.

Jed Morgan's $US154,000 ($A218,000 ) for finishing joint 30th was more than the $A180,000 he won for winning the Australian PGA Championship by a record 11-stroke margin in January.

Blake Windred, the lowest Aussie finisher in joint-38th, picked up $US136,000 ($A193,000).