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Adam Scott celebrates a birdie during the 2013 Masters Tournament at Augusta, which he won.

There’s Jack Nicklaus, then Adam Scott: Australian great’s magic moments as history beckons

Adam Scott is playing his 99th consecutive major when he tees up for his 100th career major in the US PGA Championship this week. It’s a 25-plus-year journey with ups and downs throughout.

  • Peter Ryan

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Rory McIlroy wins the Masters.

Everything you need to know about the 2026 US Masters

The Masters begins on Thursday night at Augusta National Golf Club, and the stage is set for a weekend of brilliant golf and high drama.

  • Evin Priest
Adam Scott in action during last month’s Houston Open.

Adam Scott is afforded an annual luxury as a Masters winner. His dad is the big winner

Scott, who in 2013 became the first Australian to win the major, arrived at Augusta National on Sunday to kick off a yearly tradition during Masters week.

  • Evin Priest
Australia’s Adam Scott told the media that when he won the 2004 Players Championship no one in the US knew who he was.

How the major that isn’t one (yet) took Adam Scott from ‘no-name’ to stardom

The annual argument for the Players Championships to be on equal footing with the four existing majors has gone nowhere.

  • Evin Priest
Lleyton Hewitt and Adam Scott struck up a friendship while both lived in the Bahamas.

Behind the Lleyton Hewitt friendship driving Adam Scott towards his second major win

Two of Australia’s greatest athletes lived in the Bahamas. One was in his prime, the other battling badly.

  • Sam McClure
Marac Leishman tees off at the 2023 Cathedral Invitational.

The country golf course aiming to lure McIlroy and be Australia’s Augusta

The exclusive club north-east of Melbourne already attracts some of the biggest names in Australian golf to its annual invitational. Now, it’s chasing an even bigger profile.

  • Sam McClure
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Cam Smith holds his head in his hands after missing the putt on 18.

The putt that sank Cameron Smith – and his Australian Open hopes

Royal Melbourne played host to a dramatic finish to the Australian Open as Cam Smith missed a five-foot putt on the final hole to hand Denmark’s Rasmus Neergard-Peterson a one-shot victory.

  • Sam McClure
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Australian Open as it happened: Great Dane Neergaard-Petersen beats Smith after last-putt heartbreaker

A gutted Cameron Smith has come up agonisingly short in his bid for a coveted maiden Australian Open title as Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen broke home hearts with a last-hole up-and-down for the ages at Royal Melbourne.

  • Iain Payten
Cameron Smith of Australia.

McIlroy’s banana peel slip-up as Australian stars make their charge

The Masters champion heads into the final day at Royal Melbourne trailing Cameron Smith, Adam Scott and Min Woo Lee.

  • Roy Ward, Sam McClure and Scott Spits
Rory McIlroy’s air swing.

‘I can’t remember the last time I had one’: McIlroy shows he is human with swing and miss

The Northern Irish star had an air swing on the par-five 14th at Royal Melbourne and made bogey, sending waves of fear around the course that he could miss the cut.

  • Sam McClure