Victory in at the least one among Australian golf’s two “majors” looms as the proper launching pad for Adam Scott in his quest to lastly be a part of a successful Worldwide crew at subsequent yr’s President’s Cup.
Having missed final yr’s Australian summer season of golf, Scott is delighted to be again on house soil, together with his first goal being this week’s Australian PGA Championship at Royal Queensland, the place he has the possibility to assert a 3rd Joe Kirkwood Cup.
“I’m actually completely satisfied to be house,” he mentioned.
“It was nice to the touch down a pair days in the past, have a couple of good coffees and meet up with some family and friends, and I’m excited for the week forward OF enjoying at my boyhood house membership.
“It’s at all times enjoyable to come back again to Royal Queensland and relive my junior pennant days and recollections like that, so hopefully there’s a bit of magic out on the course for me this week.”
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Scott has comparable hopes for subsequent week’s Australian Open at Royal Melbourne.
“(With) some good some good outcomes, I can actually carry some momentum into subsequent yr, and that’s what I actually haven’t had this yr, so they’re (two) massive weeks for me,” the 45-year-old Queenslander mentioned.
“I need to play nicely in entrance of a house crowd but in addition carry a variety of momentum and confidence into subsequent season and benefit from it.”
Subsequent yr might be historic for Scott. Ought to he preserve his run of consecutive appearances on the majors, which numbers 97, the 2013 Masters champion will attain 100 successive majors at June’s US Open at Shinnecock Hills.
“I’m beginning to flip into that sort of previous golf professional who’s on the market,” he mentioned.
“I bear in mind once I turned professional, and I checked out a few of these guys who’re my age now and the way previous I believed they have been, and that’s me, however personally, I really feel bodily and mentally capable of do it nonetheless.
“Fortuitously, I’m not within the aches and pains section but, and I’m actually motivated, till I get to that time at the least, to try to maintain competing.
“I actually assume I simply have to sharpen my focus a bit of bit and get again in that winner’s circle.”
A robust yr will even assist Scott obtain his purpose of creating a twelfth consecutive Worldwide crew for the Presidents Cup, which takes place in September on the Medinah Nation Membership in Chicago, Illinois.
Scott is but to style a crew Presidents Cup victory over the USA, and it’s one thing he’s determined to vary, with added motivation subsequent yr being that the Worldwide crew will probably be captained by fellow Australian golfer and good pal Geoff Ogilvy.
“Prime on my checklist with successful tournaments is making the Presidents Cup crew subsequent yr,” he mentioned.
“So much has been put into the Worldwide crew over the previous couple of years. The crew’s been dealt some robust blows the final three or 4 Cups, however Geoff’s actually engaged and taking the bull by the horns for the worldwide gamers.
“I’d actually like to be on that crew. Geoff and I’ve performed golf since we have been juniors collectively, and I’d like to get my recreation in form to make that crew and get that worldwide win as a result of I believe it’s shut.”