Tiger Woods leant his uncommon irons to golf rival earlier than clinching the Masters
A former Masters champion has revealed the key to his success inside golf – borrowing Tiger Woods’ golf equipment. Adam Scott secured what’s to this point nonetheless the one main championship of his profession when he obtained the inexperienced jacket in April 2013. The Australian went on to turn into world No. 1 for 11 weeks a 12 months later, however he has a lot to thank Woods for when it got here to deciding on the correct of apparatus for the job.
Scott, who additionally completed as runner-up on the 2012 Open Championship, has revealed how throughout his early {golfing} days, he obtained accustomed to taking part in with a set of golf equipment that belonged to Woods, earlier than requesting a set of his personal that may finally take him onto greater and higher issues.
Speaking in an interview with Iona Stephen throughout her newest ‘On the road with Iona’ podcast, Scott defined how he ended up in possession of Woods’ golf equipment.
He stated: “When I first turned pro I was using some Titleists and I was working at the time with Butch Harmon who was coaching Tiger at the time. I was out at his place and I was practising with Tiger’s backup set out of Butch’s office. I was hitting them really good.
“I requested Titlelist if I might have a set like that. There was type of some pushback. This upstart from Australia asking for Tiger’s golf equipment.
“Butch let me take them to South Africa at the start of 2001 and I won my first tournament that year with that set of Tiger’s backup irons. So then I got a set made by Titleist. I used them for five and a half years, that one set. Looking back on it they were pretty special irons.”
When requested if Woods knew that Scott had taken his spare set of irons, the Australian stated: “He did. Butch asked him, but he did get them back too.”
Scott emerged as a critical participant on the PGA Tour when he received the flagship occasion Players’ Championship at Sawgrass in 2004 sinking a 10-foot put to win by one shot from Padraig Harrington.
In 2012 he got here near profitable The Open after taking pictures a championship report six-under-par spherical of 64 within the opening spherical at Lytham & St Annes. He held a four-shot lead within the closing spherical with 4 holes to play, however after slumping to 4 consecutive bogeys, South African Ernie Els steamed by to beat him by one stroke.
His Majors heartache appeared set to proceed at Augusta in 2013 when Argentine Angel Cabrera birdied the 72nd gap to pressure a sudden demise playoff with Scott. But his luck would change on the second gap of the playoff when Scott sank a 12-foot birdie to clinch the inexperienced jacket in probably the most dramatic of circumstances.