{"id":316401,"date":"2025-11-29T12:04:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T12:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/316401\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T12:04:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T12:04:05","slug":"adam-scott-fires-but-needs-beauty-to-end-title-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/316401\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Scott fires but needs ‘beauty’ to end title drought"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adam Scott<\/a> won’t overthink a five-year title drought, admitting he’ll still need a final-round “beauty” after putting himself in the frame for a third Australian PGA Championship.<\/p>\n

The former world No.1 and Masters champion mixed eight birdies with three bogeys in a Saturday 66 to briefly share the lead, before finishing at 11 under to enter the clubhouse in a tie for ninth.<\/p>\n

Min Woo Lee<\/a>, Marc Leishman<\/a>, Anthony Quayle<\/a>, Spain’s David Puig<\/a> and Portugal’s Ricardo Gouveia<\/a> occupy a packed leaderboard and are all likely to finish level or ahead of Scott.<\/p>\n

Scott has 32 wins worldwide but hasn’t won a 72-hole event since claiming the Genesis Invitational in 2020.<\/p>\n

At 45 he is adamant more will come and on Saturday displayed enough evidence to suggest a third Kirkwood Cup was within reach.<\/p>\n

“It’s hard to complain about 66,” he said, before adding that he wasn’t completely satisfied with his day.<\/p>\n

“I’m going to have to have a really good round.<\/p>\n

“A strong front nine to put myself in it and then maybe, if I can get my name up the top with seven or eight to go.<\/p>\n

“But I’ll have to close well too. I’m chasing. I can’t stall out. It’s too bunched, it’s going to have to be a beauty tomorrow.”<\/p>\n

Scott was four under through nine holes before a two-hour rain delay, then returned with birdie-birdie at 12 and 13 to grab a share of lead at 12 under.<\/p>\n

He bogeyed the next hole and then clawed one back on the 15th, before sending his wedge into the bunker on the par-three 17th and just missing his testing par putt.<\/p>\n

“It’s not like I’m out there thinking about winning … it’s ticking all the boxes and doing a better job of the things in the boxes,” he said of his thought process.<\/p>\n

“But I’ve put myself in a decent position.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adam Scott won’t overthink a five-year title drought, admitting he’ll still need a final-round “beauty” after putting himself…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-316401","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}