Adam Scott will finish 2024 because the oldest participant, the one participant aged over 35 and the one Australian male on this planet’s prime 20 after the ageless famous person completed third on the DP World Tour’s season-ending championship behind Rory McIlroy.
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The 44-year-old Australian is the world’s twentieth greatest golfer, 11 spots increased than countryman Jason Day who might climb a few locations with victory at this week’s Australian PGA in Brisbane.
Day is returning to play in Australia for the primary time since 2017, whereas Scott, who has performed 24 tournaments, and not using a win, this yr is skipping each the PGA and Australian Open, selecting to spend time together with his household, his first absence from the occasions since they had been deserted in the course of the Covid-19 pandemic.
However even a victory at Royal Queensland gained’t catapult Day over Scott who mentioned he performed to a “very excessive customary” within the latter half of the yr after ending runner-up on the Scottish Open, having additionally completed second on the BMW Championship, with seven top-10s, together with on the British Open, amongst his outcomes his 2024.
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That included his tie for third behind McIlroy in Dubai, capturing the equal greatest closing spherical of four-under to complete three photographs adrift of the winner, in Scott’s closing match after a yr which left him adamant he can nonetheless compete with the youthful crew.
Scott is six years older than Keegan Bradley, who at 38 is the second-oldest member of the world’s prime 20.
“I see 2024 as having two distinct halves,” Scott informed Golf Digest.
“I all the time appear to play OK. I don’t ever play badly. I simply hadn’t performed nice for some time, which was beginning to get annoying. And that’s how the primary six months of this yr was. However I did discover some confidence from the Scottish Open onwards. From there, I performed to a really excessive customary.
“It’s not a lot that I’m 44. it’s that there are such a lot of different guys getting youthful [laughs]. There are such a lot of good gamers of their mid-20s now. So greater than really fizzling out at my age, which many do, there are extra younger lads to take our place. They usually play at a really excessive degree frequently, which once more makes it tougher for somebody like me.”
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To place Scott’s present standing in perspective just one golfer, ever, Vijay Singh, reached the world No.1 rating after turning 40.
As Scott was making his cost in Dubai, Minjee Lee, who was world No.2 in 2023, Lee locked in a late arrival for the Australian Open by securing her place within the LPGA’s season-ending tour championship in Florida subsequent week.
Needing to remain in facet the top-60 on the factors race, Lee completed in a tie for 14th behind world No.1 Nelly Korda on the Annika in Florida to complete 54th and safe her place as certainly one of 4 Aussies vying for the report $6.1 million purse.
Lee, who’s winless in 2024, in addition to world No.6 Hannah Inexperienced, LPGA rookie Gabi Ruffels and Grace Kim gained’t get to Melbourne till the day earlier than subsequent week’s dual-gender occasion begins with the season-ending CME Globe being contested in Florida this weekend.