Adam Derek Scott (born July 16, 1980) is a
Australian professional golfer. To date he is one of
only three golfers born in the 1980s who have made
the top ten in the Official World Golf Rankings, the
others being Sergio García and Justin Rose, and thus
has one of the most promising careers in men's golf.
On January 7, 2007, he reached a career high ranking
of third with a second place finish at the
Mercedes-Benz Championship.
Scott was born in Adelaide, Australia. He is often
talked of as a natural successor to Greg Norman in
Australian golf, an impression reinforced when
Norman's former caddy joined up with Scott in 2004.
His playing career took off in 2001, his first full
year as a professional golfer, when he won the
European Tour's Alfred Dunhill Championship in
Johannesburg, South Africa. The following year he
recorded two further European Tour victories, at the
Qatar Masters and the Scottish PGA Championship.
2003 saw another European win in the Scandinavian
Masters and his first win on the US PGA Tour, at the
Deutsche Bank Championship. Further PGA Tour
successes followed in 2004 at The Players
Championship and the Booz Allen Classic. Early in
2005 he won the Nissan Open and reached the top ten
of the Official World Golf Rankings for the first
time. He has spent over 150 weeks in the top-10 of
the rankings.
Scott now concentrates mainly on the PGA Tour and
2005 was the last year that he played enough
European Tour events to qualify for the European
Tour Order of Merit, but he continues to play all
over the world. In 2006 he won the Tour Championship
and finished third on the PGA Tour money list.
Scott represented Australia in the WGC-World Cup in
2002 and was a member of the International Team at
the Presidents Cup in 2003, 2005, and 2007.
Scott is currently the touring professional at The
Palms Golf Course Sanctuary Cove, located on the
Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. He attended the
prestigious Anglican boys' school, The Southport
School in middle school, and finished his high
school education at The Kooralbyn International
School where he also undertook extra subjects in
Golf. He also briefly attended University of Nevada,
Las Vegas, and is coached by noted instructor Butch
Harmon.
