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Golf: Australian Adam Scott had a bit of a nightmare on 8 at the Cadillac Championship, hitting the wrong ball and receiving a penalty.
Australian veteran Adam Scott capped off a stunning weekend charge with an eight-under par 64 as world No.4 Cameron Young cruised through the final round despite a penalty to win the Cadillac Championship by six strokes.
No one in the field bettered Scott’s Sunday 64 as the 45-year-old moved up 57 places on the leaderboard across the weekend at Trump National Doral’s Blue Monster in Miami. After a sluggish start, including copping a two-shot penalty for hitting the wrong ball during the opening round, Scott turned the corner with a third round 66. The Australian’s surge was also financially lucrative with the tournament boasting a US$20 million prize purse.
Scott collected US$826,666.67 for coming in a share of fourth at 11-under par, eight shots behind Young. If he did not improve his position after the second round, the former world No.1 would have earned US$42,750 .
“That’s good playing around here, for sure. Especially yesterday in the wind I played really, really nicely,” Scott, who won win the PGA Tour last went to Doral a decade ago, said.
“I was so disheartened after Friday’s round, my putting was just so bad. I know a lot of guys have struggled with grain and stuff this week. But just felt like I’m playing good and I’m just not getting anything out of it.
“So it’s an incredible game because two days later I feel really good about things sitting here talking with you. ” Adam Scott of Australia walks off the 11th tee during the final round of the Cadillac Championship 2026 at Trump National Doral Miami. No player gained more strokes with their approach play than Scott across the four rounds.
In addition to striking his irons and wedges beautifully, Scott’s short game was also in good order, ranked fifth for strokes gained around the green. But some advice from fellow green jacket winner and good friend Trevor Immelman, who spotted an issue with his stroke from the commentary booth, helped him take more opportunities on the greens in the final two rounds.
“Yeah, he noticed a little something with my left elbow I think for quite awhile that we just haven’t really focused on it. It gave me something to focus on and probably improved my path and face and all the things that you need to do without really having to stress too much about it. The performance is also a massive confidence booster ahead of the PGA Championship at Aronimink Golf Club later this month.
There had been some concern about whether he will get to a century of consecutive majors with the top 60 in the world rankings after the PGA Championship earning a place at the US Open. But Scott is tipped to move to 43rd in the world when the rankings update, effectively locking in the milestone at Shinnecock Hills next month.
“To win a major I’m going to need to put four days together, not just a weekend coming from behind,” Scott said. “I feel like my game is there. I’m doing all the things that I think I need to do to be in that kind of condition. So next week is important to keep this confidence going and hopefully arrive at the U.S. PGA full of confidence and four good days and you just never know.
”The 28-year-old American called a penalty on himself in the second fairway when he saw the ball move then salvaged par on his way to firing a four-under par 68. Young became only the third wire-to-wire winner at Doral, the first since Andy Bean in 1977.
“When the golf course is difficult, when the playing conditions are difficult, that tends to make it easier for me mentally,” Young said. “That’s a big part of keeping yourself in it out here... thankfully I was able to stay where my feet were and hit a bunch of good shots.
” Young, who turns 29 on Thursday, won his first PGA title last August at Greensboro, captured the Players Championship in March and shared third last month at the Masters. His six-stroke victory margin matched the largest ever in a PGA event at Doral, a feat last managed by Hubert Green in 1976.
“The self-belief just continues to build,” Young said. “I put myself in plenty of good places over the course of the last four or five years and recently have started to come out on the better side of it so excited for the next few weeks. ” More than an inch of rain fell overnight, delaying the final round after softening the Blue Monster course.
Source: AP Top-ranked Scottie Scheffler birdied three of the last four holes to shoot 68 and finish second, one stroke ahead of fellow American Ben Griffin. It was the third consecutive runner-up finish for Scheffler after placing second at the Masters and Heritage tournaments last month. Not since 2014 had one player managed three PGA runner-up efforts in a row. The result came in Scheffler’s final tune-up before defending his PGA Championship title in two weeks.
Adam Scott shared fourth with Austrian Sepp Straka, who shot 66, and South Korean Kim Si-woo, who closed with a 70. After calling the penalty on himself at the second Young hit his approach to 13 feet and sank the clutch par putt to regain momentum.
“Your heart sinks when you see move, but it moved and that’s part of what golf is about,” Young said. “There’s no one that was going to give me a penalty there but myself. “I’ve had about four of those on the PGA Tour now, so I need to start setting the club down a little softer, but it’s just one of those times.
How was I going to look the other way and say it didn’t move when it rolled over and went an inch forward?
“Just unfortunate but I handled it pretty well. ” He followed with birdie putts from just inside 12 feet at the third and just beyond 12 feet at the fifth. Young reached the green in two at the par-five eighth and sank a four-foot birdie putt, leading by seven at the turn.
After sandwiching a birdie at the par-five 12th between bogeys at 11 and 13, Young closed with a 12-foot birdie putt at the par-three 15th and drove the green at the par-four 16th to set up a tap-in birdie. Australia’s Min Woo Lee jumped into the top 20 with a final round 68 to finish 7-under par, while Jason Day also shot 68 after starting the final day even par overall.
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