Adam Scott held a two-shot lead with 4 holes to play however didn’t come out on prime, regardless of not making any obtrusive errors down the stretch.
Instead, he noticed Robert MacIntyre race him by because the Scotsman scuttled previous the Aussie with an eagle-par-birdie end to take residence the Genesis Scottish Open title by one.
“A disgrace to return up brief, however Bob did what he needed to do to win. Eagle, par, birdie, that’s nice stuff,” Scott mentioned.
“I actually felt good coming in right here, and I used to be enjoying higher than I’ve all 12 months and actually for fairly some time. Good to be within the combine… But happy for Bob. This is a giant win. I performed with him [Saturday], and you may hear them singing over there. I feel that’s superior for him, and hopefully, I can take some good kind into subsequent week.”
Scott had a superb spherical apart from a few errors that in the end value him. After making three birdies on the entrance 9 to leap as much as 16-under, Scott made a double bogey on the par-4 eighth. He misjudged his third shot, which relegated him again all the way down to 14-under, the place he started his day. But Scott rallied on the very subsequent gap, holing out from the sand for an unbelievable two on the par-3 ninth.
Another birdie adopted on the par-5 tenth, after which Scott caught his strategy to 17 inches on the par-3 14th, which led to a different birdie. But a bogey at 15 adopted after a poor strategy shot.
“I knew I used to be in entrance after 14. And then bogeyed 15,” Scott added.
“I knew I needed to no less than birdie 16, after which I used to be looking for one there on the final.”
He managed to make a 4 on the par-5 sixteenth—the identical gap MacIntyre eagled—however not like the Scotsman, the Aussie couldn’t get his birdie try and drop on the 18th gap, which proved to be the distinction.
“I had fairly a tough putt to learn. It was sort of down the backbone, and I learn it to go straight. It was straight down the backbone, but it surely went proper slightly bit,” Scott mentioned of his 14-foot birdie try on the final.
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“You know, it was enjoyable to have one which mattered, truly. So, I’m excited to take some consolation on this and head into a serious subsequent week on kind. Because it’s been some time since I can say I’ve completed that.”
Scott’s final runner-up end got here on the 2021 Wyndham Championship, when Kevin Kisner defeated Scott and 4 others in a 6-man playoff. Scott’s final win got here on the 2020 Genesis Invitational in Riviera, as this week prolonged his winless drought to almost four-and-a-half years.
But now he’ll make his 93rd consecutive begin in a serious at Royal Troon, the positioning of subsequent week’s Open Championship.
“I feel I have to maintain doing the identical issues I’ve been doing,” Scott mentioned.
“It was nice to check a few the modifications I’ve made within the final couple weeks on the market [on Sunday]. It wasn’t all excellent. But it was good to see that a few of it was working properly. I do know if I discover myself within the warmth subsequent week, hopefully, I can lean into this good things taking place.”
Jack Milko is a golf workers author for SB Nation’s Playing Through. Be positive to take a look at @_PlayingThrough for extra golf protection. You can observe him on Twitter @jack_milko as nicely.
