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Resurgent Adam Scott wins the WGC Cadillac Championship for back-to-back victories

By: Golfshake Editor | Mon 07 Mar 2016


Post by Sports Writer, Derek Clements


Great Scott makes it two in a row as the wheels come off for McIlroy again

YOU couldn't make it up. Adam Scott put two early double-bogeys behind him to stage a remarkable comeback and win the WGC Cadillac championship at Doral's Blue Monster. He somehow managed to finish with a 69, and left a world-class field trailing.

Early in the final round, Rory McIlroy found himself four shots ahead of the field after Scott's early woes. The Australian looked utterly lost. McIlroy was cruising.

Ninety minutes later, Scott was at the head of affairs, two clear of Danny Willett and Bubba Watson. And McIlroy? The Northern Irishman, walking around Doral for the first three rounds as if he owned the place, had told us that his new cack-handed putting grip had finally given him the confidence he had been looking for on the greens. And we believed him.

But then it all started to go wrong. He missed fairways. He hit poor iron shots. And he couldn't buy a putt. Meanwhile, Scott, who won the Honda Classic last week, started to go for everything and quickly put the memory of his dreadful start behind him as the birdie putts began to drop - he birdied six out of nine holes.

You will remember that McIlroy started the final round of the Northern Trust Open as red-hot favourite to win and went backwards in a hurry. Now it has happened again - and it is a big worry. The harder McIlroy tried at Doral, the worse it got, and he ended up with a 74.

Not so very long ago we were talking about golf's new Big Three. The names on everybody's lips were McIlroy, Jordan Spieth and Jason Day. Spieth and Day both struggled again over the Blue Monster. And now if there is a Big Three, there is a good argument for saying that it comprises of Scott, Watson and Rickie Fowler. Such is the fickle nature of sport.

It wasn't all plain sailing for Scott, even when he got his nose in front. The 16th is a reachable par four and Scott hit his drive into a bunker at the back of the green. It was a straightforward shot, but the Australian shanked it and had to hole a six-foot putt for par. Willett had birdied the hole moments earlier, so Scott's lead was down to one, with Watson and Phil Mickelson two adrift.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDlLGwCupbw

Willett undid the good work when he drove his ball into the water at the final hole. It meant that Scott boarded the 72nd tee with a two-shot lead. He leaked his drive to the right and when he got to his ball he discovered that there was a palm tree blocking his route to the green. Scott attempted to hit a huge cut but the ball didn't come back far enough; it struck the back beside the green and seemed destined for the lake but it stayed dry.

He played a brilliant recovery, leaving himself a six-foot putt to pip Watson by a shot after the left-hander finished with a 68 and a four-round total of 277, 11 under par. Scott, you will remember, has had the screaming heebie-jeebies with the putter in recent years. Surely he wouldn't make it? Surely, smoothly, he rolled it in, straight and true.

In the past three events, Scott has finished second, first and first. Putting woes? What putting woes?

"I played some pretty ugly stuff early on," Scott said. "But then I got my swing back and hit some great iron shots so close that they were tap-ins. I have been working really hard on my putting and would have backed myself every time to hole that final putt. Now I have to bottle this and keep it going for The Masters."

Highlights

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPiird-Y4XY

 


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