Oakmont, Pennsylvania – Adam Scott spent the majority of Friday afternoon going unnoticed. As difficult as it can be for the popular Australian Golfer who won the 2013 Masters, he worked perfectly at the US Open.
Scott, 44, has never moved away from the peer, making three birdies and three Bogeys in the second round at Oakmont Country Club and just finding himself in the discord.
It was not fanciful, but effective.
“I’m playing the old man by golf right now,” said Scott.
He pulled a second consecutive line 70 to finish at 140, even by, which was good enough to follow the leader of the second round Sam Burns by three shots. JD Spaun is second with 138 with Viktor Hovland third at 139 years old. Scott is equal to the fourth row with Ben Griffin.
Scott, who plays in his 24th American Open, also made a 96th consecutive start in a major championship dating from the 2001 British Open. It is the longest sequence in the history of golf behind the 146 of Jack Nicklaus from 1962 to 1998.
His best open American finish was equality for fourth 10 years ago in Chambers Bay.
“I would be quite proud to win this thing this weekend,” said Scott, who would be the second oldest winner of the US Open behind Hale Irwin, 45, the 1990 winner. “At the moment, that’s really what I am here to do, and I have the impression that there are probably many signs for anyone other than I or six weeks that my game seems better. But I really feel more confident than this year.
“I have the impression that this is what I worked. I was in a way in the late mixture at the PGA [Championship, where he tied for 19th]And now in a way to put myself in this one for the weekend. It’s a long way to go, but I have the impression that my game is in good shape to do it. »»
Scott does the kind of thing you need to do in Oakmont, namely hitting fairways. He has reached 17 out of 28 so far as 27 of the 36 Greens.
More than two days, he has eight birdies and eight bogeys.
“For most of the first two days, I am in the Fairway off the tee, and therefore there was not too much stress in the rounds,” he said. “I think I played the tee well, and the rest of the game was correct from there. But I would say that I was quite strong from the tee.”
Scott said he had welcomed the rain that was starting to fall – and was later heavy – when he spoke to journalists, believing that the course could use what certain sweetness could bring.
“It was starting to look like another day of hot and dry time and on weekends would be very difficult here,” he said. “There were certain greens who also had a slide about them and firmness. The fairways even become a bit like that. Thus, the rain could keep it under control, hopefully, and we save us frustrations.”
And yet Scott was fine. He will have a late time, probably with Hovland on Saturday afternoon and seems to be holding his own difficult conditions.
How these changes will be part of the challenge, that that Scott kisses even more at this stage of his career.
“Do not put something else, but that’s really where my mind goes at the beginning of each year and what I think, of course, I would like to win many more tournaments, one of them, to be perfectly honest,” said Scott, who has 14 wins on the PGA Tour with the only major to come to the Masters. “I would like to win something.
“But I have set up a great career, but I think that another adult more would really contribute to realizing myself, when everything is said and done.
“That’s all I really play, these are these major events. There are probably eight at the top of my mind per year that I really want to win. ”
