He will turn 46 during the week of the British Open next July at Royal Birkdale, and he will be playing in the championship for the 26th consecutive time.
Adam Scott continues to play high-level golf year after year after year.
While 2025 may not have been one of his most memorable seasons, he’s salvaged it some here at the end of the year in his beloved Australia.
Now 45, Scott started the year ranked 18th in the world. He did not collect a top-10 finish on the PGA Tour this year, but he only missed three cuts, although they were at three of the game’s biggest events. He dropped to 62 entering this week, which was two spots better than it was the week before.
This week he held steady down the stretch at Royal Melbourne to finish fifth in the Australian Open, which he won back in 2009. He finished four behind winner Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen. The finish, however, was good enough to send Scott, Si Woo Kim and Michael Hollick to the British Open next year as the Aussie Open was part of the major’s qualifying series. Kim and Hollick finished third and fourth respectively.
Scott’s first Open appearance came in 2000 at the Old Course and he’s played every year since, excluding 2020 when the championship was cancelled because of the COVID-10 pandemic. He’s recorded six top-10 finishes, the most heart-wrenching coming in 2012 when he bogeyed each of the last four holes to lose a four-shot lead to Ernie Els, who won his second claret jug that week at Royal Lytham & St. Annes.
The Open at Royal Birkdale is July 16-19 next year. Scott will turn 46 on the day of the first round.