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Yahoo
3 days ago
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- Yahoo
Adam Scott's classy gesture to JJ Spaun despite brutal US Open 4th round
The post Adam Scott's classy gesture to JJ Spaun despite brutal US Open 4th round appeared first on ClutchPoints. When it was all said and done on Sunday at the 2025 US Open at Oakmont Country Club in Oakmont, Pennsylvania, it was JJ Spaun, who came out on top of the field to win his first career major. Spaun entered the fourth round after being tied for second with Adam Scott through the first 54 holes, but he managed to overcome his rivals — and the elements at Oakmont — to win the tournament. Advertisement Scott, who has not won a grand slam event since 2013, will have to wait a little longer for another shot at ending his drought for a major title, as he followed a strong third round with a disastrous fourth day at the US Open. The 44-year-old Scott shot a 70 in each of the first two rounds before firing a 67 on the third day. However, his dreams of winning the 125th edition of the US Open came crashing down with an abundance of bogeys in the fourth round. He had bogeys on the first and third holes to start his fourth round campaign. Scott had a par on the fourth hole but that was as good as it got for the Australian the rest of the way. From the fifth to the last hole, Scott had bogeyed on seven holes, including a back-breaking double-bogey on the 16th. He finished the tournament tied for 12th with a 6-over-286 score. Meanwhile, Spaun overcame a bad start to the fourth round, where he had a bogey on five of six holes before turning it around. He had four birdies on the final seven holes, including a clutch 64-foot birdie on the 72nd hole to walk away with the victory. Despite the crushing way things turned out for him in the final round, Scott showed his appreciation for what Spaun just accomplished. Scott was seen giving Spaun a hug after the tournament, congratulating the first-time major winner in a classy way. Scott was honest about how tough it was to deal with the course. Advertisement 'Look, it just wasn't easy out there,' Scott said after the tournament (h/t Mark Schlabach of ESPN). 'All things being equal, it's Sunday of the U.S. Open, one of the hardest setups, and the conditions were the hardest of the week. Thank God it wasn't like this all week.' On the season, Scott is 10-for-12 with four top 25s. Related: US Open news: JJ Spaun's heartfelt reaction to winning first major Related: Golf world reacts to JJ Spaun's incredible walk-off US Open win at Oakmont
Newsweek
3 days ago
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- Newsweek
Adam Scott Shows Ultimate Class after U.S. Open Collapse
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. "I think one more major would really go a long way in fulfilling myself," Adam Scott had said earlier in the week, and for a moment, it looked like Oakmont might finally deliver that elusive second. The 44-year-old Australian, who last lifted a major trophy at the 2013 Masters, surged into contention after Round 2 and followed it up with a brilliant 67 on Saturday as he sat just one shot off the lead before the final round. OAKMONT, PENNSYLVANIA - JUNE 14: Adam Scott of Australia acknowledges the crowd on the 18th green during the third round of the 125th U.S. OPEN at Oakmont Country Club on June 14, 2025 in Oakmont,... OAKMONT, PENNSYLVANIA - JUNE 14: Adam Scott of Australia acknowledges the crowd on the 18th green during the third round of the 125th U.S. OPEN at Oakmont Country Club on June 14, 2025 in Oakmont, Pennsylvania. (Photo by) More Getty Images But Sunday turned into a nightmare at the 125th U.S. Open. Battling relentless rain and a waterlogged course, Scott carded 9-over 79, tumbling from T2 to T12 and watching his hopes of a second major slip away. "It was borderline unplayable... the water was so close to the surface. Like the shot I hit on 11—it's bizarre. I just don't know. It was like an aquaplane off the ground," Scott said post-round. Yet, in the face of heartbreak, Scott's response was pure class. On Monday, he took to Instagram to share his gratitude: "Today wasn't my day but I am still so grateful for everything this game continues to give me. Thank you @usga for hosting another incredible and historic championship. Onward," he posted over his Insgram profile. His sportsmanship extended beyond social media. In the locker room, Scott embraced newly crowned U.S. Open champion J.J. Spaun, offering heartfelt congratulations right after his win. The moment gained even more meaning when the U.S. Open's Instagram account resurfaced a 2020 tweet from Spaun that read, "My new swing thought... 'Adam Scott'." The official U. S. Open handle captioned it: "Safe to say it worked, J.J!" Scott acknowledged the post with a nod, proving that even in defeat, he remains a role model. His final round may have unraveled, but his legacy as one of golf's classiest competitors only grew stronger. This was Scott's 96th consecutive major appearance, second only to the Golden Bear, Jack Nicklaus. While the trophy eluded him, his grace under pressure didn't go unnoticed. For now, the grind continues. Scott will tee it up next at the Travelers Championship from June 19–22 at TPC River Highlands. This will be the PGA Tour's final signature event of the season with $20 million on the line. He's also confirmed for the Open Championship at Royal Portrush, set for July 17–20, where redemption may still await. More Golf: Rory McIlroy Drops Ryder Cup Message after U.S. Open Flop
Sydney Morning Herald
4 days ago
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- Sydney Morning Herald
‘Old man golf': Aussie veteran poised to make history at the US Open
Veteran Australian golfer Adam Scott could make history on Monday after overcoming treacherous conditions at the US Open to put himself into contention to win a second of golf's major tournaments. Scott sits in equal second at three-under, after finishing the third round at Oakmont Country Club with a three-under par 67. The 44-year-old held a share of the lead toward the end of his round, but will go into the last day just one shot behind leader Sam Burns. If Scott goes on to win the US Open, he will break a record for the longest wait between first and second major wins - after the Queenslander famously won his first in 2013 with a drought-breaking victory at the Masters. Scott would also become the second-oldest golfer to win a US Open. Scott showed all his experience and guile on Sunday, coming home with three birdies in the final six holes In a sign of how brutally tough the Oakmont Country Club course is to play this year, just four players are under par for the tournament after three rounds. The course's length, tricky greens and impossibly thick rough have made some of the world's best look like everyday hackers. But playing his 96th consecutive major tournament - dating back to 2001 - Scott played superbly to shoot back-to-back rounds of even par on the first two days, setting him up for a climb up the leaderboard in the 'moving day' third round. Scott said post-round he'd used all his years' experience to negotiate the course, and take advantage of the rare opportunities on greens that were softened up by some rain. 'I played really well, although you know I was fairly safe,' Scott said.
BBC News
4 days ago
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- BBC News
'What's eating Rory?' - Will US Open prove a reset point for McIlroy
Even when a US Open throws up as many talking points as last week's 125th edition at Oakmont did, the name that still dominated discussion was Rory Masters champion never contended on this beast of a course, which produced a surprise and fairytale winner in JJ Spaun when he holed a monster putt to thunderously seal his triumph in truly dramatic Robert MacIntrye and Tyrrell Hatton emerged as genuine major contenders. They did so on a capricious course that, heading into the final round, produced a leaderboard with only one major winner in the top a soggy final day Spaun overcame a nightmare start to storm to victory while forlorn contenders such as 2013 Masters winner Adam Scott and Sam Burns were subjected to a form of golfing brutality that might disturb their sleep for months to still, post-championship chatter in the bars of Pittsburgh and beyond centred around the 36-year-old Northern Irishman who completed the career Grand Slam when he won the Masters in April. "What's eating at Rory?" Was the question so many people want to discuss, especially after his terse news conference following Saturday's third round in was the first time he had spoken to the media post round at a major since that never-to-be-forgotten outpouring of relief and joy which followed his thrilling play-off win at Augusta blanked reporters after every round at last month's US PGA Championship, where news emerged that his driver had failed a conforming test at Quail Hollow. Its face was worn sinister in that, but the test results are supposed to remain player was irked that this was reported, initially by the tournament's in-house radio station. It never mentioned that the driver of eventual champion Scottie Scheffler had also failed its before had McIlroy failed to speak post round for an entire he spoke on the Tuesday prior to the US Open he was noticeably tetchy and short with reporters, especially those who brought up the driver dark mood seemed at odds with someone who was expected to carry a sunny disposition for evermore, having finally reached all-time great status with his Grand Slam success at the year's first incredibly satisfying as that ultra-rare achievement must be, it does not guarantee eternal happiness. Life moved on after his richly deserved back slapping and feted appearances on the chat show circuit. McIlroy 'looking for mountain to climb' But how does it move on, when the task that had consumed him and driven him for more than a decade was finally completed? What forces someone in such a position to go back to the well of intense practice and self scrutiny?"Physically I feel like my game is there, it is just mentally getting myself in the right frame of mind to get the best out of myself," McIlroy admitted after his 67 at Oakmont last was the joint lowest score on that dramatic final day. But one of the reasons he was suddenly speaking more openly, and therefore more like his usual self, was less to do with finally playing well and more about who he was talking the previous day, there were only a handful of reporters waiting to collect his thoughts - BBC Northern Ireland and representatives from the Irish press. People who have followed every twist and turn of McIlroy's remarkable familiar faces carry the five-time major champion's was open enough to admit: "I climbed my Everest in April and I think after you do something like that you've got to make your way back down and look for another mountain to climb."By contrast, the previous day he had been surrounded by a swarm of reporters, predominantly American. McIlroy was off hand, cold and curt."I've earned the right to do whatever I want to do," he said. He came across as entitled and arrogant, even though the context of this comment was merely in terms of his dealings with the player is compelled to speak after a round unlike in other sports, such as football and tennis where such obligations are mandatory regardless of result. As long as such obligations remain voluntary he will exercise his right not to golf administrators and their broadcast partners must be considering whether they should adopt a similar stance to tennis. Collin Morikawa blanked reporters after losing the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill in later said: "I don't owe anyone anything." That was an entitled opinion from someone with career earnings edging towards the $50m mark. Players prone to temper tantrums The tours, though, would struggle to impose mandatory interviews because they are organisations effectively run by the players so the majors. Augusta National, the PGA of America, USGA and R&A - who are responsible for the Masters, US PGA, US Open and The Open respectively - might, and probably should, consider making such a regime a condition of is especially the case while there is an increasing perception of a growing distance between top players and a mainstream media that can do so much to oil the PR machine that helps feed such gargantuan bank it seems in many cases, the more money they get, the less approachable these players become. They are also seemingly more prone to temper the past two majors there have been foul-mouthed, club throwing outbursts from several players - including the usually mild-mannered world number one Scheffler, who tossed his putter on the 15th green after a missed putt. Courses and locker rooms have felt the full force of fury from some of the best remunerated athletes on the by no means the main offender, lobbed a club and smashed a tee marker during this US Open, which was uncharacteristic from someone who in the injury-induced absence of Tiger Woods is the sport's greatest ambassador and most popular not a great look, he had clearly, and understandably, reached boiling point last week. Reporting of "driver-gate" and his perceived lack of respect for Jack Nicklaus, for not telling the legendary American he would not be playing in his recent Memorial tournament - which had never been on his intended schedule - had irked game was in decline. He was struggling to find a new driver that fitted his feels and the drive to fix such problems on the range. Despite super-human achievement, he is only had reached a breaking point. It can happen to anyone, even someone who is usually so giving and interesting in his did not want to speak after Saturday's round, but he did and in so doing broke his silent treatment of the emerged from that huddle did not show him in his best light, but it might prove a reset by the end of the week his driver was starting to behave. It is the key attribute to his golfing Sunday night he was much more his old self, speaking of his desire to get back to Europe, where a new house at Wentworth awaits as well as an Open at Royal Portrush in his native Northern plays the Travellers in Connecticut this week and then he is done with America for a while. He will take a break before July's Scottish Open and then a potentially tumultuous end to the men's major season on the Antrim coast a week his mojo to be back there. As he says, if it is not then we know he has a problem.
New York Times
5 days ago
- Sport
- New York Times
This was not Adam Scott's U.S. Open. Will the wait for his second major ever end?
OAKMONT, Pa. — With the day finally over and the week finally done, Adam Scott got to the Oakmont Country Club parking lot and began the process of realization that comes when any long wait is prolonged. These are the moments when the quotation marks fall away, when you hear the hard stuff. Scott stopped walking and started talking. Advertisement 'You know, when I won that Masters,' he said, looking around like a man in an empty room, 'I really thought, 'Here we go, the floodgates are going to open.'' That Masters, played in the spring of 2013, when Scott was 32 and let out a winning roar as photo flashes lit the green and rain fell from above, was 12 years, one month and 20 days ago. At the time, Augusta was going to be the starting point of the story that would determine his place among the greats in golf, and, well, he was sort of right. Except, instead of a career defined by major wins, it's been resembling some cruel Sisyphean endeavor. There's a reason this was everyone's sentimental pick on Sunday at this U.S. Open. What a story it'd be. The old guy. The wise one. The guy who put in his time and traveled the long road and stuck with it. The guy whose résumé has never quite matched a swing so smooth that it somehow overshadows his looks. Adam Scott, in the final pairing of his 24th career U.S. Open, in his 96th consecutive major tournament start, would be a fitting winner for a cathedral like Oakmont. So, what happened? Seventy-nine shots. Seventy-nine wicked, wet, woebegone shots. Each seemingly worse than the last. All over the course of a day seemingly as long as the wait that it took to get here. Scott arrived a little after noon on Sunday. He teed off alongside tournament leader Sam Burns at 2:15. He left the course at 4 amid a pounding rain, then went back to the practice range at 5, then to the eighth hole for a 5:40 restart. Before the delay, Scott liked where he stood. He opened with two bogeys in the opening three holes but got one back on the par-5 fourth before missing a 10-footer for par on No. 6. He was 2 over on the day but felt good about his form and was 1 under for the tournament and one shot out of the lead. He knew Oakmont would take its toll on everyone and believed he'd stay standing. 'I was absolutely feeling great,' he said afterward. 'No doubt.' He did until he didn't. After the stoppage of play, what had been a daring weeklong pas de deux between this U.S. Open's entrants and this wonderful old beast of a course devolved into a sopping-wet street fight of survival. Scott never found his way, pushing drive after drive down the right side. Every second shot he hit seemed to be played out of a bowl of soup. Bad shots combined with some bad breaks, and the Aussie came undone. He played the final 11 holes in 7 over par and finished in a six-way tie for 12th. His tournament essentially ended with back-to-back bogeys on holes 14 and 15, then a coffin-closing double on the 16th. Advertisement Coming up 18, Scott walked through the shockwave of J.J. Spaun's 64-foot winning putt, seeing it all play out a few hundred yards away. In the aftermath, he hit an approach, then set off on a long stroll that he undoubtedly imagined differently only a few hours earlier. A career coronation. A final validation. Instead, he was passed by volunteers running down the side of the hole to get in position for Spaun's trophy presentation. Scott wrapped up a final bogey, tipped his cap, shook hands with his group's standard-bearers and walked off into yet another void. The thoughts that came next are ones he's all too used to. 'I understand that winning another major would, you know, put me in some kind of different category,' he said in the parking lot. 'I've dreamed of winning lots of majors. I'm just trying to get that next one — always. But that's the way it is.' The hardest part about Scott's journey — from Masters winner to world No. 1 to years searching for a next major victory — is that it's never been for a lack of effort. If anything, it's the opposite. The longer he's gone on like this, the harder he's working. Trevor Immelman, CBS's lead analyst, is Scott's closest friend and his extra set of eyes. The two came up together, from junior golf to the PGA Tour to the Presidents Cup to Masters champions. Immelman's career was cut short by injuries; he openly acknowledges living vicariously through his friend. He has seen everything Scott has done and how he has done it. The endless equipment tweaks. All the work on approach shots and iron play. The fitness regimen. Speaking by phone Sunday from his home in Florida, Immelman, 45, pointed out what's missed in all the old-man tropes that line Scott's narrative. The most common perception — that his age and experience are his advantage — is wrong. Advertisement In truth, it's the fact that, even in his 40s, Scott maintains the swing speed and power of a top-20 player in the world because he works endlessly to sustain it. Just like Tiger Woods did. Just like Phil Mickelson did. Just like Ernie Els and Vijay Singh and Davis Love III. And that's the difference. 'An awesome weapon of speed and power — that's how he stays relevant,' Immelman said. 'Because if you don't have that, then you can't use your experience.' Now, still looking for that long-awaited second major, the question is: How much longer can Scott use what he has? There's what he sees on the course. Even with Sunday's disappointment, Scott left Oakmont knowing he was in a position to win, same as he was at Quail Hollow, when he was in second place with seven holes to go before again fading hard and finishing tied for 19th. He expects to contend at Portrush next month and is positioned to make the Tour Championship. And there's what he sees in the mirror. Scott turns 45 next month. His wife and three kids live year-round in Switzerland. He is, at last check, not getting younger. It's hard. Waiting is one thing. Not knowing what you're waiting for is another. Here, Scott acknowledges what he knows. He's on the clock. 'I feel like I can keep this up for another 18 months, for sure,' he said. 'Then, at that point, I'll be 46. I think I can push myself for the next year and a half and then reassess, you know? That's a reasonable goal. It's not so long, but it's like, 'Are you ever going to do it?' I need to give myself a bit of a deadline, a bit of urgency, right?' In truth, he's long had that. It just feels different when time keeps moving.
