{"id":29551,"date":"2025-11-29T07:08:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T12:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/11\/29\/director-adam-scott-fired-beauty-is-needed-to-end-title-slump\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T07:08:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T12:08:31","slug":"director-adam-scott-fired-beauty-is-needed-to-end-title-slump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/11\/29\/director-adam-scott-fired-beauty-is-needed-to-end-title-slump\/","title":{"rendered":"Director Adam Scott fired; ‘beauty’ is needed to end title slump"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Adam Scott admits he still needs some “beauty” in the final round after qualifying for his third Australian PGA Championship, but he won’t think too much about winning a fifth straight title.<\/p>\n

The former world No. 1 and Masters champion briefly tied for the lead after compiling eight birdies and three bogeys with a 66 on Saturday, but finished at 11 under and entered the clubhouse in a tie for ninth place.<\/p>\n

Minu Lee, Marc Leishman, Anthony Quayle, Spain’s David Puig and Portugal’s Ricardo Gouveia occupy a crowded leaderboard, with all likely to finish equal to or better than the Scot.<\/p>\n

Scott has 32 wins worldwide, but hasn’t won a 72-hole event since winning the Genesis Invitational in 2020.<\/p>\n

The 45-year-old is adamant there will be more to come and on Saturday gave enough evidence to suggest a third Kirkwood Cup is within reach.<\/p>\n

“It’s hard to complain about being 66,” he said, later adding that he wasn’t entirely satisfied with the day.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have to have a really good round.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I can put myself on a strong front nine and move my name up to the top with seven or eight to go, maybe I can.<\/p>\n

“But I also have to tighten up. I’m chasing. I can’t stall. I’m too bunched up. Tomorrow has to be beautiful.”<\/p>\n

Scott finished 4 under through nine holes before a two-hour delay due to rain, and birdie-birdie on the 12th and 13th holes gave him a share of the lead at 12 under.<\/p>\n

He bogeyed the next hole and recovered one on the 15th, but he put his wedge into a bunker on the par-3 17th and narrowly missed his testing par putt.<\/p>\n

“I’m not going out there thinking about winning…it’s about checking all the boxes and executing the things in the box better,” he said of his thought process.<\/p>\n

“But I put myself in a decent position.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Adam Scott admits he still needs some “beauty” in the final round after qualifying for his third Australian PGA Championship, but he won’t think too much about winning a fifth straight title. The former world No. 1 and Masters champion briefly tied for the lead after compiling eight birdies and three bogeys with a 66 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[17],"class_list":{"0":"post-29551","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}