Adam Scott is returning home after three years to have another tilt at the Fortinet Australian PGA Championship.
The 42-year-old Major winner has confirmed that he will tee it up at Royal Queensland in his home state as the DP World Tour begins its 2023 season.
Scott's impressive 2022 which has seen him play in the final 30 at the FedExCup and in every Major, will close-out with an extended stay on Aussie shores. He will travel from Brisbane to Melbourne to play in the ISPS HANDA Australian Open in Melbourne in the following week, another DP World Tour and ISPS HANDA PGA Tour of Australasia co-sanctioned event.
The events will be the Queenslander’s first appearances in Australia since 2019. He has previously won the Open (at New South Wales in 2009) and the PGA twice (in 2013 and 2019) and is regarded as one of Australia’s all-time great players, immortalised for his historic win at Augusta National in the 2013 Masters tournament – the first and only win in that event by an Australian.
He has played in the Australian PGA Championship and the Australian Open virtually every year since turning professional in 2000.
“As a player it’s always an honour to come back and play before your home crowds. For me, that’s especially so in Queensland, I also love playing on the magnificent courses of the Melbourne sandbelt, so I can’t wait to get back down there for both events and hopefully, get a win or two,” said Scott.
“I’m rapt to be coming back to play for the first time in three years. It’s been way too long, but the pandemic and the travel restrictions have made it tough on everybody and obviously we’ve had a couple of events put on hold during that time.”
Father-of-three Scott has won 14 times on the PGA TOUR and 11 times on the DP World Tour. His most recent tournament win was the Genesis Invitational in 2020 in Los Angeles.
The Fortinet Australian PGA Championship has a $2 million prize pool in 2022, the biggest on the ISPS HANDA PGA Tour of Australasia, having resumed from the pandemic break earlier this year when local hero Jed Morgan produced a record-breaking 11-shot win at Royal Queensland.
The Fortinet Australian PGA Championship is supported by the Queensland Government through Tourism and Events Queensland and features on the It’s Live! in Queensland events calendar.
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