Scott out to improve on dismal US Open record
The 33-year-old has a Masters victory under his belt and the green jacket on his back, he has a second place and a tie for third in his last two Open Championship appearance and the US PGA Championship has seen him finish 11th and fifth in 2012 and 2013.
Yet as Scott prepares to get his 13th US Open under way today, the best his record shows in the second major of the year is a tie for 15th at Olympic Club in 2012.
Nothing close to a near miss and not a hint of contending on a resumé that shows six missed cuts and 28 of his 36 US Open rounds over par.
Yet for all the bad past there is an encouraging present, Scott recording five top-five finishes on the PGA Tour in 2014, his last two starts being a victory at the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial and a tie for fourth last time out in the Memorial at Muirfield Village.
“I haven’t had the best record at the US Open,” he said. “It’s hard to put a finger on a lot of it.
“I’ve talked about 10 years of playing pretty average, by my own expectations in majors, and tried to improve that the last few years, and I think I’ve done a good job. But maybe not quite as good at the US Open.
“However, I felt, at Olympic, I played very well the last 60 holes or so, after a really bad start on Thursday. And the confidence grew last year. I battled a little bit, maybe it’s coincidence I haven’t had my best stuff at a US Open.
“But I certainly feel like where my game’s at now, and the past few years, I should be able to compete here.
Scott tied for 28th place in 2005 when the US Open was last played on Pinehurst No.2 and the Australian applauded the changes made to the course by Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw to make the 1901 Donald Ross course more akin to the way it was intended with a more natural look, the rough replaced by the wasteland vegetation indigenous to these North Carolina sandhills.
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