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New Masters champion, Adam Scott has paid respect to fellow Australian Kel Nagle, and golf’s oldest living Major Champion. Nagle turned 91 last December and no doubt would have been awake early, like the rest of the Australian nation, on Monday morning Australian time watching intently to see if Australia’s 73-year Masters hoodoo, since Jim Ferrier first represented Australia at Augusta in 1940, would come to an end. Nagle, who made his Masters debut in 1960 and just months before his ...

ADAM SCOTT – 2013 MASTERS CHAMPION – FACTFILE 1980: Born July 16, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. 1997: Wins World Junior Title 2000: Turns professional and attracts attention at an event in Morocco with a swing akin to Tiger Woods.  Scott secures his European Tour card for the following season in just eight starts at the Great North Open at Slayley Hall in north England. 2001: Wins first European Tour title at Alfred Dunhill Championship in South Africa. 2002: Wins twice ...

Adam Scott’s stunning Masters triumph has brought back under the microscope the anchoring of the belly and long-handled putter to the body. Scott, 32 became the fourth player in the past six Majors to win using either the belly putter or long-handled putter. And the Australian is the second straight player on the PGA Tour win anchoring the club to his body after Scotland’s Martin Laird shot a course record equallying 63 to win the Valero Texas Open. Scott set up the first Masters victory ...

 ADAM SCOTT – 2013 MASTERS CHAMPION – FULL POST ROUND INTERVIEW  CRAIG HEATLEY (Chairman of Augusta National Media Committee):  Ladies and gentlemen, it’s my distinct pleasure to welcome our 2013 Masters Champion from Australia, Adam Scott. When I heard the roar down on 10, a second later I heard about 30 million people in Australia and New Zealand all cheering, as well, I can’t even describe the pleasure that it gives me to welcome and congratulate you, Adam, on an awesome ...

World No. 1 Tiger Woods posted his 11th top-five finish in 19 Masters in finishing tied fourth at Augusta. Woods posted a second straigh 70 to end tied with Australia’s Marc Leishman (72) on five under par. MORE TO FOLLOW   Here is Woods’ comments post his final round.  What was the course like today? TIGER WOODS:  I just thought the greens were so slow.  Yesterday they were so quick and dried out and today they were so much slower.  And that was before it even rained.  Once ...

Adam Scott has ended a long 73-year Australian wait to win The Masters. Scott brilliantly birdied the second extra hole after in a final round 69 left him tied with Argentina’s Angel Cabrera. Scott’s victory also made ammends in losing last year’s Open Championship to capture his first Major and at his 12th Masters, and also two years after finishing joint runner-up with fellow Australian Jason Day. Jim Ferrier was the first Australian to compete in the Masters in 1940 and since ...

Chinese amateur sensation Tialang Guan heads back to school after again having created history in becoming the youngest ever ‘Low Amateur’ winner at the Masters. The 14-year old wrote a new chapter last Thursday in Augusta National’s history book in being the youngest to tee-up at Augusta National. And then despite a two-stroke penalty for slow-play late in his round on Friday, Guan saw off his other five amateur colleagues who all missed the cut to be assured of the award. “It’s been ...