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In the insular world of professional golf, a player’s decision to enter one event or skip another amounts to minor news. Here’s Phil Mickelson, for instance, opening his 2022 in the annual Tournament of Champions on the Hawaiian island of Maui.

A refreshing change and another star in the field against the gorgeous backdrop of the Pacific. So soothing.

Aussie Cameron Smith rolled in two long eagle putts on the way to an eight-under par 65 and a one-shot lead over world number one Jon Rahm and two others in the US PGA Tour Tournament of Champions.

Australia’s Smith shook off a slow start to set the pace on the par-73 Plantation Course at Kapalua in Hawaii, but he had little breathing room in the elite $US8.2 million ($A11.4m) event for last season’s winners.

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He bounced back with a birdie at the third, then drained a 44-foot eagle putt at the fifth and birdied the ninth to make the turn three-under.

Smith caught fire coming in picking up five strokes in four holes with birdies at 13, 14 and 16 sandwiched around an eagle at 15, where he rolled in a 37-foot putt.

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Spain’s Rahm had seven birdies without a bogey in his 66 and was joined at seven-under by FedEx Cup champion Patrick Cantlay and fellow American Daniel Berger.

“I started off pretty terribly, to be honest,” said Smith, who bogeyed the par-three second hole.