Scott seals 10-shot victory but misses European record
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Your support makes all the difference.Adam Scott blew away the field with a record-breaking 10-shot victory in the Scottish PGA Championship here. The Australian shot a final round of 63 for a 26-under-par total of 262 to secure his second win of the season and third European Tour title. The 22-year-old's 10-shot winning margin bettered by two strokes the previous best this season, set by the South African Retief Goosen in winning the Johnnie Walker Classic in January.
It was also the lowest score on tour this season, beating Jose Maria Olazabal's total of 22 under in the Hong Kong Open, and was just one short of the all-time European Tour record of 27 under held by the American duo John Daly and Jerry Anderson.
Scott was 22 under par for the 20 par fives this week, and although his 63 will not count as a joint course record as preferred lies were in operation due to the wet conditions, it earned him a Rolex watch, worth more than £3,000, for the lowest round of the tournament.
Scotland's Raymond Russell closed with a 68 to take second place. Sam Torrance was a shot further back in third, the Ryder Cup captain enjoying his best finish since his last win in 1998, the day after his 49th birthday.
Scott, who produced a grandstand finish of eagle-birdie-eagle on the last three holes, said: "When you're hot, you're hot. It was almost winner's luck, there is no real pressure on you when you're leading by a few, you can just go and play your shots."
A superb 65 amid a continual downpour on Friday set the foundations for Scott's win and made up for his disappointment at missing out on the NEC Invitational in Seattle.
Meanwhile, Torrance said yesterday that it would be up to Colin Montgomerie to decide on his participation in the Ryder Cup next month. Montgomerie pulled out of the NEC Invitational event midway through the second round on Saturday with a recurrence of the back injury that has troubled him for most of the year. He returned to Britain yesterday for treatment.
Australia's Craig Parry shot a five-under-par 66 in the NEC Invitational on Saturday to join compatriot Robert Allenby at the top of the leaderboard after three rounds. The world No 1, Tiger Woods, shot a solid 67 to move up the leaderboard and into a five-way tie for fourth place at eight-under-par.
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