Adam Scott remains positive, opportunistic despite difficult Scottish Open finish

Adam Scott held a two-shot lead with 4 holes to play however didn’t come out on prime, despite not making any obvious errors down the stretch.

Instead, he noticed Robert MacIntyre race him by because the Scotsman scuttled previous the Aussie with an eagle-par-birdie finish to take dwelling the Genesis Scottish Open title by one.

“A shame to come up short, but Bob did what he had to do to win. Eagle, par, birdie, that’s great stuff,” Scott stated.

“I really felt good coming in here, and I was playing better than I have all year and really for quite a while. Good to be in the mix… But pleased for Bob. This is a big win. I played with him [Saturday], and you can hear them singing over there. I think that’s awesome for him, and hopefully, I can take some good form into next week.”

Scott had a superb spherical other than a few errors that in the end price 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 right 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 inconceivable two on the par-3 ninth.

Another birdie adopted on the par-5 tenth, after which Scott caught his method to 17 inches on the par-3 14th, which led to a different birdie. But a bogey at 15 adopted after a poor method shot.

“I knew I was in front after 14. And then bogeyed 15,” Scott added.

“I knew I had to at least birdie 16, and then I was trying to find one there at the last.”

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 quite a tricky putt to read. It was kind of down the spine, and I read it to go straight. It was straight down the spine, but it went right a little bit,” Scott stated of his 14-foot birdie try on the final.

“You know, it was fun to have one that mattered, actually. So, I’m excited to take some comfort in this and head into a major next week on form. Because it’s been a while since I can say I’ve done that.”

Scott’s final runner-up finish 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 significant at Royal Troon, the location of subsequent week’s Open Championship.

“I think I need to keep doing the same things I’ve been doing,” Scott stated.

“It was great to test a couple of the changes I’ve made in the last couple weeks out there [on Sunday]. It wasn’t all perfect. But it was nice to see that some of it was working nicely. I know if I find myself in the heat next week, hopefully, I can lean into this good stuff happening.”

Jack Milko is a golf workers author for SB Nation’s Playing Through. Be certain to take a look at @_PlayingThrough for extra golf protection. You can observe him on Twitter @jack_milko as properly.