Scott retains Australian Masters title

Golfer holds off Kuchar in final round at Royal Melbourne.

MELBOURNE: World number two Adam Scott retained his Australian Masters title after fending off a strong challenge from American Matt Kuchar in the final round at Royal Melbourne on Sunday.

The victory keeps alive Scott’s hopes of claiming the Australian triple crown after winning last week’s Australian PGA on the Gold Coast and with the Australian Open to come at Royal Sydney in two weeks.

Before then Scott will again take on Kuchar, Singh and others at Royal Melbourne this week when he partners Jason Day for Australia in the World Cup.

“I’ve never won back to back weeks so this is a first and something that I like,” said Scott. “I think it’s very hard to win two tournaments full stop, so I’m quite pleased with myself this week.”

“Sometimes you win a little bit ugly. All the good stuff I had done in the first three rounds counted a lot, even though it wasn’t the prettiest golf today.”

Published in The Express Tribune, November 18^th, 2013.

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