Adam Scott has been around professional golf for a while now. It’s part of the reason he recently joined the PGA Tour’s $60 million career earnings club.
“I think it speaks to probably more longevity. If I try to find positives in stuff about myself these days, longevity, I’ve been out here a long time,” Scott said on Tuesday ahead of his 10th career start at the Sony Open in Hawaii. “Generally played at a high level, so it adds up.”
The Australian never had a career money goal in mind when he turned professional back in 2000. In fact, his goals were pretty simple: win majors and make it to world No. 1.
“After a few years on Tour, like maybe many others if we’re all being honest, felt like they were going to be unattainable because (Tiger Woods) was so dominant at No. 1 and he was winning about two majors a year,” Scott explained. “If I’m honest, my golf in the majors wasn’t even close to looking threatening, so it was an interesting first 10 years of my career, I think, because I’m not sure that for whatever reason I kind of — I didn’t give up, but it seemed a little bit unattainable.”
At 42, Scott feels those dreams are even more attainable now.
“This year I’m playing the schedule I want to play,” he said. “I feel like I don’t have to chase anything and I can prioritize everything I need to do to win big events and put myself in a position where I want to be kind of fulfilling those dreams as a kid.
“I think my motivation now is as strong as ever.”
With 14 PGA Tour and 11 DP World Tour victories, Scott has won from Augusta, Georgia, to his native Australia. From Qatar to Scotland. Florida to California. Like golf’s Johnny Cash, he’s been everywhere (though Scott would be the Man in Tan, rather than black.) That longevity has given Scott a perspective that few players can provide. Luckily for fans, the 2013 Masters champion isn’t afraid to speak his mind.
During Tuesday’s press conference he talked about Official World Golf Ranking points and his disagreements with the new format, saying the board “tried to do the right thing and go very objective, just purely based off strength of field, but we’re seeing top players don’t see the strength of field weighted the same as the numbers do.”
He spoke about “the best evening of the year” at the Masters Champions Dinner, where Fred Couples “does a great job needling some of the older players into telling stories.” Scott even started what…
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