Adam Scott (golfer)
| Adam Scott | |
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| — Golfer — | |
Scott in May 2008
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| Personal information | |
| Full name | Adam Derek Scott |
| Nickname | Scotty |
| Born |
16 July 1980 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia |
| Height | 6 ft 0 in (183 cm) |
| Weight | 180 lb (82 kg) |
| Nationality |
 Australia
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| Residence | Crans-Montana, Switzerland |
| Spouse | Marie Kojzar |
| Children | Bo-Vera |
| Career | |
| College | University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) |
| Turned professional | 2000 |
| Current tour(s) |
PGA Tour PGA Tour of Australasia |
| Former tour(s) | European Tour |
| Professional wins | 29 |
| Number of wins by tour | |
| PGA Tour | 13 |
| European Tour | 10 |
| Asian Tour | 4 |
| Sunshine Tour | 1 |
| PGA Tour of Australasia | 5 |
| Other | 3 |
| Best results in major championships (wins: 1) |
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| Masters Tournament | Won: 2013 |
| U.S. Open | T4: 2015 |
| The Open Championship | 2nd: 2012 |
| PGA Championship | T3: 2006 |
| Achievements and awards | |
| PGA Tour of Australasia Order of Merit winner |
2005, 2013 |
Adam Derek Scott (born 16 July 1980) is an Australian professional golfer who plays mainly on the PGA Tour. He was the World No. 1 ranked golfer, from mid-May to August 2014. He has won 29 professional tournaments around the world (3 being unofficial money events), on many of golf's major tours. His biggest win to date was the 2013 Masters Tournament, his first major championship and the first Masters won by an Australian in its history. Other significant wins include the 2004 Players Championship, the 2011 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational and the 2016 WGC-Cadillac Championship. He was the runner-up in the 2012 Open Championship, leading by four strokes with four holes to play before bogeying all of them to lose the title by a stroke to Ernie Els.
Scott was born in Adelaide, South Australia where he attended the Lady George Kindergarten and moved with his family at the age of nine to the Sunshine Coast, Queensland where he attended Matthew Flinders Anglican College. They then settled on the Gold Coast, Queensland in 1993. Initially at The Southport School, an Anglican boys' school on the Gold Coast, he completed his high school education at The Kooralbyn International School, also on the Gold Coast, where he undertook extra subjects in golf. He was a member of the Golf Australia National Squad. He later attended the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), where he was initiated into the Sigma Chi fraternity.
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