Adam Scott

Adam Scott is a professional golfer from Adelaide, Australia. He attended the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) and turned pro in 2000. Adam Scott has 14 PGA Tour victories including his most notable win, the 2013 Masters.

Adam Scott is one of the most successful professional golfers to come out of Australia. As an amateur, Scott won the Australian Boys' Amateur in 1997 and 1998. After attending UNLV and turning pro in 2000, Scott quickly earned his European Tour card in 2001 and made a few appearances on the PGA Tour. His first professional win came that same year when he won the 2001 Alfred Dunhill Championship in Johannesburg, South Africa.

In 2002, Scott won several more times on the European Tour and made his debut at the Masters where he finished ninth. Fans came to know Scott at the 2003 WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship, where he took Tiger Woods to extra holes in a semifinals match, which Woods would win on the 19th hole. 2003 proved to be Scott’s year, however, as he earned his first PGA Tour victory at the Deutsche Bank Championship, winning by four strokes.

Scott earned another notable win in 2004 at The Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass. Despite finding the water on the finishing hole and posting a bogey, Scott managed to hold off Pádraig Harrington by a single shot.

Scott had a great chance to win his first major championship at the 2012 British Open. Instead, that week is memorable for the wrong reasons. He held a four-stroke lead on the final day but failed to hang on to win. The collapse drew comparison's to fellow countryman, Greg Norman, and his lost leads at the Masters.

Scott won six more events between 2004 and 2013, including the Tour Championship in 2006. It was the 2013 Masters, however, where he earned his biggest career victory and lone major championship to date. That year, Scott and Angel Cabrera went to a playoff where Scott drained a 12-footer on the second playoff hole to win. Images of Scott celebrating while rain fell at Augusta National are among the indelible history of the event.

On May 9, 2014, Adam Scott became the number-one ranked golfer in the Official World Golf Rankings, a position he held for 11 weeks.

Since his Master win, Scott has won six times on the PGA Tour. His most recent win came at the 2020 Genesis Invitational. In total, Adam Scott has 31 professional wins between the PGA Tour, European Tour (now DP World Tour), Asian Tour, and PGA Tour of Australasia.

Scott’s involvement in team play has been significant. He represented Australia at the World Cup four times (2001, 2002, 2013, 2016) and in the Presidents Cup 10 times (2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2022). He is all but guaranteed captaincy in the future.

Adam Scott has one of the most technically sound golf swings in the history of the game. His tempo and balance are textbook, even to the most accomplished players in the world.

His career earnings are $68,182,966.