Norton, Massachussets …
Adam Scott looked asleep on his feet.
Scott had just left the scorer’s room located in a corner of the cart parking area in the basement to the TPC Boston clubhouse.
Jet-lagged Adam Scott ‘begs’ not have to talk to the waiting media after his round (Photo – www.golfbytourmiss.com)
He had battled his way to one birdie, one bogey and 16 pars including 10 in succession, for a level par 71 in bright but cold conditions on day one of the Dell Technologies Championship at TPC Boston.
The World No. 18 was approached by one of the PGA Tour’s senior media officers with a request from a number of media outlets including Fox Sports Australia, SKY Sports, PGA Tour Radio and then maybe visit the ‘flash area’ to speak of his round.
Scott has always been one of more obliging golfers on tour to share his thoughts with the media but as had been revealed a day earlier, he was struggling with jet-lag in returning to the States from Australia following the birth of his second child in Queensland.
“Please, please give me a rain check on this one and I will make it up to evveryone tomorrow,” he said smiling.
What Scott wanted was to grab some lunch and head back to his hotel room and not have to ‘do the rounds’ in talking with both the electronic and written media.
However, he did kindly agree to talk to just two or three written media who met with him in the clubhouse basement.
“I have travelled so much less the last five or six years that occasionally has resulted in jet-leg but really I am not too bad and only about an hour or two out,” he said.
“But when you are getting up at 3am it makes for a long day and this is on top of having been up early the day before for the Pro-Am.
“Overall, it was just difficult today and it was just hard work, and even tougher having to tee off from the 10th.
“I didn’t have a real look at a birdie to my 11th hole and before that I spent the first 10 holes making four to seven footers for par.
“The good news was I made all of them.
“And like for most of the year the swing wasn’t there today but then over the last few holes I felt like there was something good in there and hopefully tomorrow I will have a better ball-striking round”.
In contrast, fellow Queenslander Cameron Smith was pleased to talk of his round even though he had signed for a disappointing five-over par 76 and in a round that included a first hole birdie and a also a closing hole birdie.
Sandwiched in between was five bogeys and an 11th hole double bogey.
Cameron Smith after his round of a five over 76
“I could count on one hand how many I hit out of the middle today,” he said.
“Conditions were not that great out there this morning and the game was no better”.
