{"id":902903,"date":"2026-09-23T20:26:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T20:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/902903\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T20:26:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T20:26:20","slug":"itd-be-fantastic-scott-driving-presidents-cup-tilt-australian-golf-digest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/902903\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It&#8217;d be fantastic&#8217;: Scott driving Presidents Cup tilt \u2013 Australian Golf Digest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With a lamentable, almost incredible, none-from-11 record, Adam Scott is OK with his International Team wanting to dedicate any hoodoo-busting Presidents Cup triumph to \u201cthe old guy\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>At 46, Scott will be making his 12th consecutive appearance against another formidable US outfit and it\u2019s no surprise his teammates are using the former world No.1 and Masters champ as inspiration in Illinois.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCertainly, you would have thought if you were going to play all 12 in a row from 2003, that he would have won one by now,\u201d International Team captain Geoff Ogilvy said ahead of the day-one four-balls at Medina Country Club\u2019s course No.3 on Friday (AEST).<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1790195173_574_.jpeg\" alt=\"International Team captain Geoff Ogilvy\"\/>International Team captain Geoff Ogilvy says they would love to win for Adam Scott. (<a href=\"https:\/\/photos.aap.com.au\/search\/20260923149023968461\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AP PHOTO<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo it would be fantastic for the team, and I know everybody feels that way, that he\u2019s a big \u200cpart of the inspiration they want \u200cto win for.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a cool journey he\u2019s taken. When he first got into that room, he was playing with Ernie Els and Vijay Singh and Nick Price. He was the young one in the room, and now he\u2019s the guy they all look at.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Scott has played in every edition of the Presidents Cup since 2003. That\u2019s 11 competitions, with 10 losses, one tie and zero victories. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1790195175_884_.jpeg\" alt=\"Adam Scott\"\/>Adam Scott addresses the media ahead of the Presidents Cup in Illinois. (<a href=\"https:\/\/photos.aap.com.au\/search\/20260923117450120141\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AP PHOTO<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Hideki Matsuyama is preparing for his seventh Presidents Cup in a row, but Scott \u200bstill has the Japanese star\u2019s longevity beaten by a full decade.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s part of the International furniture now,\u201d South Africa\u2019s Christiaan Bezuidenhout said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s played in 12 of them. Yeah, he plays as good as what he played 25 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo all of us would love to win the Cup, but it would be so much more special if we can do it while Adam is still in the team as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1790195177_445_.jpeg\" alt=\"Japan's Hideki Matsuyama\"\/>Japan\u2019s Hideki Matsuyama is playing in his seventh consecutive Presidents Cup. (<a href=\"https:\/\/photos.aap.com.au\/search\/20260922149819364292\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AP PHOTO<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Despite his vintage, Scott has not drifted far from the apex of the sport in his 40s.<\/p>\n<p>Ranked 45th in the world, he tied for ninth at the most recent major, the Open Championship. That marked his 101st consecutive major start, the second- longest streak in the sport\u2019s history, behind only Jack Nicklaus.<\/p>\n<p>At the most recent Presidents Cup in 2024 at Royal Montreal, Scott came away with two points, tied for \u200cmost of anyone on the \u200bteam.<\/p>\n<p>He contended at the DP World Tour\u2019s BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth Club last week, sharing second with the likes of Rory McIlroy.<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1790195178_581_.jpeg\" alt=\"Adam Scott and Rory McIlroy\"\/>Adam Scott and Rory McIlroy finished in a share of second spot at the BMW PGA Championship. (<a href=\"https:\/\/photos.aap.com.au\/search\/20260921152793344331\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AP PHOTO<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel like my game has been in good shape throughout \u200bthe year and \u200cI played reasonably well in the (FedEx Cup) play-offs recently,\u201d Scott said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut of course coming in off a good week last week at Wentworth is nice for the confidence, that\u2019s for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At 39, New Zealand\u2019s newly crowned British Open champion Ryan Fox is relishing the chance to make his Presidents Cup debut.<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1790195180_551_.jpeg\" alt=\"New Zealander Ryan Fox is set for a Presidents Cup debut.\"\/>After claiming this year\u2019s British Open, New Zealander Ryan Fox is set for a Presidents Cup debut. (<a href=\"https:\/\/photos.aap.com.au\/search\/20260923193298793148\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AP PHOTO<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>To Fox, being on the International team means being the underdog. It comes with the territory for a historically outmatched collection of golfers with a 1-13-1 record against the \u200bmighty Americans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do have a chance to do something incredible,\u201d \u2060Fox said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we\u2019ve got a couple of guys on the team who have played a lot of these that we really want to get a win \u200bfor. I think that\u2019s our motivation. I mean, Adam especially over there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 with Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With a lamentable, almost incredible, none-from-11 record, Adam Scott is OK with his International Team wanting to dedicate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":902904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,405163,85,2614],"class_list":["post-902903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-overseas-sport","tag-sports","tag-united-states-of-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902903","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=902903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/902904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}