“We Might Be Crazy” – Scott Talks Putting, Pressure, and Fatigue

Adam Scott matched his career-low PGA TOUR round with a sizzling 62 and opened up about what sparked the turnaround. From putting woes and a conversation with Trevor Immelman to dealing with fatigue and changing habits, Scott shares what it takes to thrive after setbacks.

He also offers candid insight into the challenges of balancing majors and Signature Events—and how experience shapes his mindset today.

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adam tying your career low round on tour what was um clicking for you today
yeah it was all all good today i mean the big difference was I puted nicely right out of the gate made one on one and freed up a little bit so um you know I believe I’m playing this well but you’ve got to make some putts at the end of the day to shoot a number so that that was the difference between the first two days and today what um keeps you I mean it can be I guess hard at times you know you’re back in the pack going to be hard to have a chance to win but to keep yourself motivated to put in the work to come out here and play as well as you can where does that come from yeah I think just having been out here so long knowing that it can be one round or one shot or or something can really turn it around there’s still I’ve got a lot of work to do for the rest of this season there’s still some big tournaments to play and you know it I’d rather leave today with the confidence shooting 62 than kind of mailing it in and maybe shooting 70 or 72 and not really getting anything out of it you know I’m I’m out here for a reason so I’ll try and get the most out of it if I can
do you mentally recover faster at this point because you’ve got more experience coming off of an event like last week which was I’m sure really draining do you recover mentally as quickly as maybe you did in the past or quicker because of the experience yeah it was a it was a tough one you know it was like a real let down draining not a like a um a a confidence and fatigue you know I I was a big let down on Sunday last week i knew I was going to have to play this week but I actually think now the last couple years having these signature events after majors not that I’ve been in contention at all the majors but like having to change my habits a little bit for my whole career I pretty much took every week off after a major and all of a sudden we’re playing big events right on the back of it so you know using Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday wisely I think is is big for me and I hate I hate to say but like you know I I feel more fatigue at this point in the season than I did 10 years ago it’s just the fact of the matter and um you know it’s it’s smart if I take it pretty easy for a few days what are some examples of things that you do or don’t do on Monday Tuesday Wednesday now that maybe in the past you know you just took the week off where you just what’s different
yeah like definitely not come out to the course Monday Tuesday um unless I’ve really got something to fix or need to do but you know don’t use the energy fortunately I’ve been coming to these places a long time and know the course and it’s really about conserving energy and just having a bit of recovery so that hopefully you know when you’re in contention the next weekend there’s plenty in the tank still
is when you put the way that you did sort of yesterday and then today obviously things turned around significantly is it something that you just have to mentally just sort of like let go of the day before and just like start a new or was there something that you realized that changed is it something as random as seeing a couple go in early that just sort of sparks things what What changed
yeah man i mean if I started talking to you about like how you manage these parts of the the game you’d think we’re all crazy but I I didn’t even feel like I had a problem putting yesterday yeah I hit one off the green but it was windy and quick the uh I hit good putts and they didn’t go in like nothing felt bad other than they missed they lipped out and they burned the edges and they added up to be a lot it’s
super annoying and I I don’t get discouraged by that because it doesn’t feel bad you know it’s different if like I hit a putt today that’s the worst putt I’ve hit in recent memory and it’s one of my better rounds and that bothers me more than like yesterday
just the randomness of it just Yeah just like such a bad putt like I got so in my own head trying to do something and on that part and it completely jammed me up so um you know but you do need a trigger I think to change it you can’t do the same stuff and expect a different result so you know I had a quick actually had a quick chat with Trevor this morning about it at the putting green and he just gave me something else to think of and that worked until I actually really thought of it on that one part and got in my own way it was really good today so you know I didn’t really change anything technically other than just something to you know allow a bit more freedom it was a 10 shot difference in your score from yesterday did you feel like the conditions were like a 10 shot difference it was pretty
a little bit i mean look it was very windy yesterday i think it was tough i mean there were a couple good scores out here for sure but it was a tough day um around this place yesterday i I don’t know if it’s a 10 shot difference but uh I played really really good golf today
guys earlier in the week had mentioned that that the the timing of this event and this type of venue coming after Memorial Canadian Open certainly than US Open that it’s sort of refreshing in some ways to come to a golf course in a venue where it’s it’s scorable and such like that do do you agree that as far as the timing and the way that this golf course is set up and the way the tournament is run that this is kind of a welcome break yeah although I mean I think the rough certainly in areas is longer than I’ve ever seen it here so you know down the right of one on Thursday I kind of hit a pretty okay T-shot just in the rough and like was hacking i’m like I can’t believe this but yes generally it is and you know the way my the way my year’s gone where I’ve played you know not not up to scratch when you play the signature event and the majors and a couple other tough events through Florida like it’s hard to break par i feel like I haven’t really broken par very much and uh I haven’t been playing horrible but I haven’t been playing great so it’s nice to have a round like today where you get it going a little bit what Trevor told you was it technical or mental would you say um I don’t know it was more just a It was more just a feeling of um you know watching watching the putt roll in my posture you know i think he liked the idea that I just kind of stayed down in the in the shot more rather than just standing up to watch it roll yeah awesome thanks Adam okay sweet
thank you good plan