Aug 15, 2021; Greensboro, North Carolina, USA; Adam Scott putts on the ninth hole during the final round of the Wyndham Championship golf tournament. Mandatory Credit: Rob Kinnan-Imagn Images Adam Scott has unfinished business at the Wyndham Championship this week as he continues a season filled with incomplete performances.
Scott, who lost in a record-tying six-man playoff at this event in 2021, returns to Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, N.C., still looking for his first top-10 finish on the PGA Tour this season.
“Yeah, I’ve really not had any momentum at all, and it seems like I can put three rounds together but not four every week,” he said Wednesday. “You know, I’ll put the last two together and then the next two the next week. I haven’t matched it up very well.”
That was the case at last week’s 3M Open, where he began with three rounds in the 60s before slipping to T53 with a Sunday 72.
“You know, I would say as my ball-striking improved this year, my putting cooled off,” Scott said. “It’s just been one of those (where) I can’t put it all together. It’s not terrible, but it’s obviously not (great).”
The 45-year-old Australian’s highest finish this season was his tie for 12th at the U.S. Open at Oakmont. He missed the cuts at the Masters — where he won his lone major in 2013 — and the Open Championship and finished T19 at the PGA Championship.
Scott’s 14th and most recent win on the PGA Tour came at the 2020 Genesis Invitational, although he came close in Greensboro the following year.
Kevin Kisner won the 2021 Wyndham Championship with a birdie on the second extra hole and Scott settled for a tie for second with Branden Grace, Si Woo Kim, Kevin Na and Roger Sloan.
Scott missed a 4-foot putt for birdie on the first extra hole that could have won the tournament.
“It really, it does sting,” Scott said. “I was doing a little function last night and I talked about it, and if you asked me quickly there are two putts that I really feel strongly about in my career and that’s one of them. The other one was at the British Open one year to make a playoff with Ernie (Els). Yeah, the two putts I wish I could have back really.
“Thinking back to it at the time, it hurt then but it kind of almost hurts more now because I haven’t won since then either. It’s not easy to win out here. You really do have to take advantage of those opportunities on Tour because you just don’t know when the next one’s going to come.”
Setting aside his past disappointments, Scott needs a huge performance to move into the top 70 in the FedEx Cup standings ahead of next week’s playoff kickoff at the FedEx St. Jude Championship. He currently sits 85th, leaving him in jeopardy of missing the playoffs for the first time since their inception in 2007.
“I’m looking for a big result this week to keep my season going but just generally looking for a good result,” he said. “I feel like I’ve been playing well since May and really not gotten much out of this at all. It would be fun to be in the mix this weekend, and also I still have some open wounds from a few years ago in that playoff so it would be fun to change that.”
–Field Level Media
