Adam Scott (golfer)

Adam Scott
Personal information
Full name	Adam Derek Scott
Born	16 July 1980 (1980-07-16) Adelaide, Australia
Height	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Weight	170 lb (77 kg; 12 st)
Nationality	Australia
Residence	Crans-Montana, Switzerland
Career
College	University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Turned professional	2000
Current tour(s)	PGA Tour of Australasia European Tour PGA Tour
Professional wins	18
Number of wins by tour
PGA Tour	8
European Tour	8
Asian Tour	4
Sunshine Tour	1
PGA Tour of Australasia	2
Best results in Major Championships
Masters Tournament	T2: 2011
U.S. Open	T21: 2006
The Open Championship	T8: 2006
PGA Championship	T3: 2006
Achievements and awards
PGA Tour of Australasia Order of Merit winner	2005

Adam Derek Scott (born 16 July 1980) is an Australian professional golfer. On 7 January 2007, he reached a career high Official World Golf Ranking of third with a second place finish at the Mercedes-Benz Championship. Scott has won 18 tournaments around the world, on a number of golf's major tours. His biggest wins of his career so far have been at the 2004 Players Championship and the 2011 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational.

Personal life

Scott was born in Adelaide, Australia. He attended The Southport School, an Anglican boys' school, and completed his high school education at The Kooralbyn International School where he also undertook extra subjects in golf. He later briefly attended University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Scott is currently the touring professional at The Palms Golf Course Sanctuary Cove, located on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.

Professional career

Scott's playing career took off in 2001, his first full year as a professional golfer, when he won the European Tour's Alfred Dunhill Championship in Johannesburg, South Africa. The following year he recorded two more European Tour victories, at the Qatar Masters and the Scottish PGA Championship.

In 2003, Scott won his fourth European title at the Scandinavian Masters and his first win on the U.S.-based PGA Tour, at the Deutsche Bank Championship. Further PGA Tour successes followed in 2004 at The Players Championship and the Booz Allen Classic. Early in 2005 he won the Nissan Open and reached the top ten of the Official World Golf Rankings for the first time. He has spent over 180 weeks in the top-10 of the rankings.

Scott now concentrates mainly on the PGA Tour, but he continues to play all over the world. In 2006 he won the Tour Championship and finished third on the PGA Tour money list. In 2008 he played enough events on the European Tour to qualify for a playing on the Order of Merit for the first time since 2005.

At the 2008 U.S. Open, Word No. 1 Tiger Woods, World No. 2 Phil Mickelson and World No. 3 Scott were all paired together in the first two rounds of the tournament. Woods won in a playoff, Mickelson finished in 18th, and Scott finished in 26th.

Scott's form dipped in 2009 as he dropped out of the top 50 in the world rankings and the top 100 of the PGA Tour money list. Despite a quiet couple of years Scott won his seventh career PGA Tour title at the Valero Texas Open, prevailing in a 36 hole long Sunday to win by one stroke.

Scott achieved his best finish at a major championship when he finished in a tie for second place at the 2011 Masters Tournament alongside compatriot Jason Day, two strokes behind the winner Charl Schwartzel. Scott had held the sole lead of the tournament while playing the 71st hole, but four birdies in a row from Schwartzel meant Scott fell short by two strokes. However Scott said afterwards that he could only take positives out of the week and that his putting had never felt so good with the long putter.

With Tiger Woods injured at the U.S. Open, and The Open Championship in 2011, Woods's caddy Steve Williams caddied for Scott. After Woods fired Williams on 20 July, Williams became Scott's permanent caddy. The two enjoyed their first win together on 7 August 2011 when Scott triumphed at the 2011 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, earning him his first career World Golf Championship. He beat Luke Donald and Rickie Fowler by four strokes after a bogey-free final round of 65. Scott returned to the world's top 10 for the first time in over two years after his win, re-entering at ninth.

Team golf career

Scott has represented Australia in the WGC-World Cup in 2002 and was a member of the International Team at the Presidents Cup in 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009 and 2011.

Professional wins (18)

PGA Tour (8*)

Legend World Golf Championships (1) Other PGA Tour (7)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning Score	Margin of Victory	Runner(s)-up
1	1 Sep 2003	Deutsche Bank Championship	-20 (69–62–67–66=264)	4 strokes	Rocco Mediate
2	28 Mar 2004	The Players Championship	-12 (65–72–69–70=276)	1 stroke	Pádraig Harrington
3	27 Jun 2004	Booz Allen Classic	-21 (66–62–67–68=263)	4 strokes	Charles Howell III
–	21 Feb 2005	Nissan Open*	-9 (67–66=133)	Playoff	Chad Campbell
4	5 Nov 2006	The Tour Championship	-11 (69–67–67–66=269)	3 strokes	Jim Furyk
5	1 Apr 2007	Shell Houston Open	-17 (69–71–65–66=271)	3 strokes	Stuart Appleby, Bubba Watson
6	27 Apr 2008	EDS Byron Nelson Championship	-7 (68–67–67–71=273)	Playoff	Ryan Moore
7	16 May 2010	Valero Texas Open	-14 (71–70–66–67=274)	1 stroke	Fredrik Jacobson
8	7 Aug 2011	WGC-Bridgestone Invitational	-17 (62–70–66–65=263)	4 strokes	Luke Donald, Rickie Fowler

* Note: The 2005 Nissan Open was shortened to 36 holes due to rain. Scott defeated Chad Campbell on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff. Due to the event's length, this win is not officially recognised.

European Tour (8)

Legend World Golf Championships (1) Other European Tour (7)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning Score	Margin of Victory	Runner(s)-up
1	21 Jan 2001	Alfred Dunhill Championship1	-21 (67–66–65–69=267)	1 stroke	Justin Rose
2	17 Mar 2002	Qatar Masters	-19 (67–66–69–67=269)	6 strokes	Jean-François Remésy Nick Dougherty
3	25 Aug 2002	Gleneagles Scottish PGA Championship	-26 (67–65–67–63=262)	10 strokes	Raymond Russell
4	3 Aug 2003	Scandic Carlsberg Scandinavian Masters	-11 (70–71–67–69=277)	2 strokes	Nick Dougherty
5	24 Apr 2005	Johnnie Walker Classic2	-18 (63–66–69–72=270)	3 strokes	Retief Goosen
6	27 Jan 2008	Commercialbank Qatar Masters	-10 (69–73–65–61=268)	3 strokes	Henrik Stenson
7	14 Nov 2010	Barclays Singapore Open3	-17 (65–65–69–68=267)	3 strokes	Anders Hansen
8	7 Aug 2011	WGC-Bridgestone Invitational	-17 (62–70–66–65=263)	4 strokes	Luke Donald, Rickie Fowler

¹Co-sanctioned by the Sunshine Tour
²Co-sanctioned by Asian and Australasian Tours
³Co-sanctioned by the Asian Tour

Asian Tour wins (4)

Scott during the 2008 Players Championship

• 2005 Johnnie Walker Classic (co-sanctioned by European and Australasian Tours), Singapore Open
• 2006 Singapore Open
• 2010 Barclays Singapore Open (co-sanctioned by European Tour)

Sunshine Tour wins (1)

• 2001 Alfred Dunhill Championship (co-sanctioned by European Tour)

PGA Tour of Australasia wins (2)

• 2005 Johnnie Walker Classic (co-sanctioned by European and Asian Tours)
• 2009 Australian Open

Results in major championships

Tournament	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Masters Tournament	DNP	DNP	T9	T23	CUT	T33	T27	T27	T25	CUT
U.S. Open	DNP	DNP	CUT	CUT	CUT	T28	T21	CUT	T26	T36
The Open Championship	CUT	T47	CUT	CUT	T42	T34	T8	T27	T16	CUT
PGA Championship	DNP	CUT	T23	T23	T9	T40	T3	T12	CUT	CUT

Tournament	2010	2011
Masters Tournament	T18	T2
U.S. Open	CUT	CUT
The Open Championship	T27	T25
PGA Championship	T39	7

DNP = did not play
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tie
Yellow background for top-10.

Summary

• Tournaments played: 43
• Wins: 0
• Top 10s: 6
• Top 25s: 15
• Missed cuts: 2
• Most consecutive cuts made: 11

Adam Scott's golf bag at the 2009 PGA Championship at Hazeltine with his signature AS logo

World Golf Championships

Wins (1)

Year	Championship	54 Holes	Winning Score	Margin of Victory	Runner(s)-up
2011	WGC-Bridgestone Invitational	1 shot lead	–17 (62–70–66–65=263)	4 strokes	Luke Donald, Rickie Fowler

Results timeline

Tournament	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Accenture Match Play Championship	R32	3	R16	QF	R32	R64	R32
Cadillac Championship	T39	T40	T36	T29	T2	T61	T9
Bridgestone Invitational	DNP	T64	T55	T36	T10	T36	T56

Tournament	2009	2010	2011	2012
Accenture Match Play Championship	R64	R32	R64	R64
Cadillac Championship	T66	T50	T6
Bridgestone Invitational	T51	T9	1
HSBC Champions	DNP	T25	T11

DNP = Did not play
QF, R16, R32, R64 = Round in which player lost in match play
"T" = tied
Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10.
Note that the HSBC Champions did not become a WGC event until 2009.

Team appearances

• Presidents Cup (representing the International team): 2003 (tie), 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011
• WGC-World Cup (representing Australia): 2002

See also

• Golfers with most European Tour wins
• Golfers with most PGA Tour wins

External links

• Official website
• Adam Scott at the PGA Tour of Australasia official site
• Adam Scott at the PGA Tour official site
• Adam Scott at the European Tour official site
• Adam Scott at the Official World Golf Ranking official site