Adam Scott will play his 99th consecutive golf major when he tees off at the PGA Championship this week. The 2013 Masters champion, now 45, is in good form after making the cut at all 10 events he has played this year. The PGA Championship, the second of the four golf majors this season, begins on Thursday.
Only the legendary Jack Nicklaus, who contested 146 successive majors between 1962 and 1998, can better Scott's feat. Scott headlines a six-strong Australian challenge at this week's PGA Championship in Pennsylvania. He will bring up the 100-straight-majors milestone at next month's US Open after booking his ticket to Shinnecock Hills with a fourth-placed finish at the Cadillac Championship 10 days ago.
Fellow former world number one Jordan Spieth, who is second among active players with 52 major appearances in a row, praised Scott's longevity. 'Yeah, it's not only maintaining your health but maintaining that level of play,' Spieth said. 'What a testament to being healthy, doing things the right way, and then being that good for that long.'
Scott remains desperate to claim an elusive second major. He showed with a bogey-free, 14-under-par weekend charge at Trump National Doral's Blue Monster in Miami to secure his US Open berth that he still has the game to compete. 'To win a major, I'm going to need to put four days together, not just a weekend coming from behind,' he said. 'I feel like my game is there.'
The Australian contingent also includes Min Woo Lee, Jason Day, Cameron Smith, Elvis Smylie, and Travis Smyth. Smyth, 32, is making his US major championship debut after winning the Australasian order of merit. 'It's a major, so it should be set up quite difficult,' he said. 'And mentally, I'm just preparing for the hardest test of golf.'
