The news came as practice got underway for the 80th Masters tournament, the first of this year's men's majors, and will come as a boost to the Rio tournament, which sees golf's return to the Olympics for the first time since 1904 but which has not been met with universal acclaim among the players, especially over the issue of scheduling.
At 35, though, Scott knows that he is no longer the new kid on the block, having dropped out of the world top 10 previous year as young guns Jordan Spieth, Australian countryman Jason Day and Rory McIlroy - all in their 20s - dominated the scene.
Australia's other great hope Adam Scott, meanwhile, said he doesn't want to be a one-major wonder.
AUGUSTA, Georgia Twice champion Bernhard Langer believes that up to 40 players are genuine contenders for this week's Masters, with another 30 quite capable of winning the year's opening major championship.
Coming off back to back wins, the number one ranked player on the PGA Tour is looking to capture his second straight major championship. "That's probably a trend that's going to continue to happen". They're the ones who are doing it.
"It's hard for me to think that anything I achieve will be bigger than that moment in my career, but that doesn't mean I'm not striving to win other Masters tournaments". "So I've just got to kind of relax, understand that I have a certain process that I go through each tournament to get ready to compete and I need to stick to that - don't do anything more, don't do anything less and just try and go out and execute".
"I found it the hardest to calm down on this golf course in the first round over the first few holes than anywhere else". "I finished ninth and didn't really know what all the fuss was about".
Perched at No. 1 on the World Golf Rankings, Day sits second on the FedExCup standings, 483 points back of Scott, but has posted impressive victories in his past two outings, at the Arnold Palmer Invitational and the WGC Match Play Championship.
With only two cuts missed in those fourteen appearances, Scott has always shown that this is a layout that suits his game from his debut 9th place finish in 2002 to his win in 2013 he has a very good record overall and given his current form he is well placed to contend once again.
"I can't rely on that to get to where I want to be this week".
"You want the best players playing great coming in here and we've got that".
Williams was on the bag for three of the four Masters won by his old boss Woods. "This has been a tournament in the past that I've tried too hard and shot myself out of the tournament", Day said. And then I really turned the corner in 2010, I felt, where I somehow just developed a high level of comfort playing around the course. "The game has changed even in the last six or seven years since Tiger won his last major championship in lots of different ways".
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