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BIOGRAPHY

Full Name: Adam Derek Scott
Date of Birth: July 16, 1980
City of Birth: Adelaide
Current Residence: Crans sur Sierre, Switzerland - Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia - London, UK
Citizenship: Australian
Height: 185cm
Weight: 77kg
Marital Status: Single
Family: Single, sister Casie
Education: The Southport School, The Kooralbyn International School, University of Nevada-Las Vegas
Turned Professional: June 2000
Interests: All sports, surfing, biographies, fashion, music
Main Tours played: PGA Tour of America, European Tour, PGA Tour of Australasia
Number of worldwide wins: 15 (including unofficial 36-hole play-off victory at 2005 Nissan Open)
Number of PGA Tour wins: 7 (including unofficial 36-hole play-off victory at 2005 Nissan Open)
Foundation: The Adam Scott Foundation

National Teams
Presidents Cup '03, '05, '07; World Cup '01, '02

Other Achievements
'05 Winner of the Australasian Order of Merit
'05,'04,'03 Aus. Golf Digest Player of the Year
'04 European Golfer of the Month (March)
'03 Johnnie Walker Player of the Year Award
'01 Aus. Golf Digest Rookie of the Year

Summary:
Adam Scott, at 28, has achieved much since he turned professional in June 2000. Scott has won an amazing 15 times internationally including 7 wins on the hardest tour of them all, the PGA Tour of America (including the rain-shortened Nissan Open in 2005).

Scott started young and was instantly at home in the competitive nature of golf. He enjoyed an illustrious amateur career which included victories at the 1996 and 1997 Australian Junior Championship, the 1996 New Zealand Junior Championship and the 1997 Doug Sanders World Junior Championship. He also secured consecutive top 10 finishes on the 2000 European Tour as an amateur at the Benson & Hedges International Open and the Moroccan Open before turning professional. Impressive finishes in Ireland, Scotland, Belgium and Germany enabled Adam to secure his European Tour card in only seven tournaments. 2001 saw Adam Scott win at the Alfred Dunhill Championship, his first European Tour victory and first professional win. He managed four top-5 finishes and a 13th placing at the end of the European Tour Order of Merit. But it was 2002 where he really announced himself to the golfing world. Adam finished 7th on the European Tour Order of Merit highlighted by his emphatic 10-stroke victory at the Diageo Scottish PGA Championship. It was also the year Adam broke through at the US Masters with an amazing T9th finish in just his first appearance at Augusta - only Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods have recorded a higher finish at a younger age.

2003 was yet another outstanding year for Scott. This year would probably be most remembered for his efforts in the Match Play Championship where a semi-final match-up against Tiger Woods awaited. Scott took Woods to extra holes but was unable to win. This, nevertheless, lifted Adam's profile as a young gun which was further proven when he won his fourth European Tour event securing the Scandinavian Masters by two strokes and in so doing becoming the youngest Australian to win four times on the European Tour. Just a month later, Scott broke through for his maiden PGA Tour win at the Deutsche Bank Championship confirming his already superstar status. Adam also managed to climb into the top 20 in world rankings for the first time and was the youngest member of either Presidents Cup teams when selected.

A year later Adam continued his rise in rankings with a memorable and stunning win at the PLAYERS Championship picking up a lofty $1.44 million for his efforts. A 10-foot clutch putt at the last hole after a stray 2nd shot into the water saw Scott claim victory from Ireland's Padraig Harrington. He remains to this day the youngest ever winner of the PLAYERS Championship. Later in the year Adam backed up this victory with another at the Booz Allen Classic equaling the tournament record of 21 under 263 held by Billy Andrade and Jeff Sluman in 1991. He managed seven top-10 finishes in just 16 starts leading him to a season-ending world ranking of 11.

In 2005, Scott continued his dominance worldwide with clinical and impressive wins at the Johnnie Walker Classic in Beijing and the Singapore Open. At the start of the year he captured the rain-affected Nissan Open in a play-off against Chad Campbell after R3 and R4 were unable to be played. It was classified as unofficial but Adam still picked up the winner's cheque for $864,000. Scott played a major role in the Internationals' quest for the Presidents Cup forming a formidable pairing with Retief Goosen. Adam also finished in a tie for 8th in defense of his PLAYERS title becoming only the sixth player to finish in the top-10 after they won the previous year. Defending the Booz Allen Classic, Scott placed second falling short at the end. Adam's first visit to Singapore paid dividends as he excelled and overpowered the rest of the field for a comfortable victory - his second win of the year in Asia. He teamed up with Fred Couples at the Franklin Templeton Shootout nearly taking out the title, but in the end settling for T2. Another missed chance went begging as he lost in a play-off to Jim Furyk at the Nedbank Golf Challenge. By the end of the year, Adam had cracked the top-10 for the first time.

2006 was a huge stepping stone for Adam Scott as he reaffirmed his status as one of the game's top players. The year saw Adam record ten top-10 finishes and finish third on scoring average (68.95). Consistent play in America also led to the successful quest of back-to-back titles at the Barclays Singapore Open. But the highlight of the year was Adam's strong finishes in the last two majors of the year, the British Open and PGA Championship, with two top-10 finishes, making the cut in all four majors. He capped off his best professional year yet with a three-shot victory at the season-ending TOUR Championship, going close to a maiden home victory at the Australian Open eventually recording T5 position and a T32 placing at the Australian PGA Championship, rounding the year off with a world ranking of 4.

The beginning of 2007 started off brightly for Scott continuing his form from the year before when he challenged Vijay Singh for the Mercedes-Benz title before giving it away. A second placing, however, boosted Scott to a career-high world ranking of 3. Adam recorded a come-from-behind win in Houston, a week before the Masters, but failed to make an impact. He missed consecutive cuts at the US Open and AT&T National followed by mediocre performances at the British (T26) and WGC-Bridgestone Invitational (T36). Adam played well at the US PGA Championship but failed to record a top-10 finish. His first venture into the FedEx play-offs saw placings T14, T17, 4th and T26 in his defense of his TOUR Championship title. This led Adam to finish 12th in FedEx Cup standings after the play-offs (10th after the regular season). November and December saw Adam cross three continents - going close in Singapore and Japan as well as South Africa at the Nedbank tournament. He was still unable to convert a victory at home in Coolum.

Adam began 2008 claiming victory for the second time at the Commercialbank Qatar Masters, becoming the only golfer to do so since the tournament's inception. Starting three shots adrift heading into the final day, he fired a career-best round of 61 to blitz the field by three strokes. Held most of the lead during the WGC-CA Championship tournament but in the end finished T9th, his first top-10 on the PGA Tour for the year. Cut short a holiday in Australia to play the Byron Nelson Championship and came away with his sixth PGA Tour victory after a stunning 48-foot birdie on the third play-off hole to defeat American Ryan Moore when earlier he blew a three-shot lead heading into the final round. Ties Sergio Garcia as the only male golfers under 30 to have won 6 tournaments in the US.

^2005 Nissan Open victory was declared unofficial due to tournament being shortened to just 36 holes
*Biography was partially adapted from the Official Adam Scott website and the PGA Tour media guide with assistance from Wikipedia.