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Adam Scott’s second straight PGA Tour triumph in as many weeks made it eight wins on four continents in the past seven months.
Jason Day, and the last player on the PGA Tour to win back-to-back, kicked off an incredible run of ‘Down Under’ success capturing a first Major with victory in the PGA Championship and in his next event he lifted the Barclays Championship trophy.
Fellow US-based Matt Jones then denied World No.1 Jordan Spieth a repeat Australian Open success.
Marc Leishman won on the European Tour for a first time in his career in sealing victory in the Nedbank Challenge in South Africa and the same weekend Nathan Holman won the co-sanctioned Australian PGA Championship at Royal Pines in Queensland.
Last fortnight Marcus Fraser won for a third time on the European Tour in capturing the Maybank Championship in Malaysia.
And now Scott has tasted success for a second week running to make it eight wins for Australian-born players on golf’s world stage.
Adam Scott (AUS) Champion, after the Final Round of the WGC Cadillac Championship, Blue Monster, Trump National, Doral, Florida, USA. 06/03/2016.
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Scott had moved back inside the world’s top-10 to World No. 9 a week ago with his Honda Classic success and with this 28th win of his pro career he will move deeper inside the top-10 to the new World No. 6
“I set myself a mini-goal starting the year or back end of last year was to try and get back to world No. 1,” he revealed.
“I think it’s a fair goal, because I’ve been there before, and if you get to that point, I think I’m going to achieve what I want in the game.
“So that’s probably a bit of a long-term goal. I wasn’t thinking I should just get there by, you know, September this year or something.
“Over the next couple of years, give myself a chance to play consistently well and move back up there and get back to No. 1 and hopefully some wins and another major and another major comes along in that time. But it would be amazing to get back there.”
And in winning back-to-back for only the second occasion in his career he compared the emotions of each, and with the first being his double 2013 Australian PGA and Australian Masters success, and with his efforts to join Robert Allenby in capturing ‘Australia’s Big 3 Tour Titles’ denied him by Rory McIlroy in the 2013 Australian Open.
“Winning the Australian PGA and Masters was in a dream year for me having returned home winning the Masters earlier that year, so my emotions were much higher,” he said.
“But to stand here now having won two PGA Tour victories in a row is special for me but then I haven’t even processed this win yet.
“Suffice to say I am extremely happy and proud at what I have achieved these two weeks here in Florida.”
