Adam Scott warns PGA Tour players about Blue | Golf News

Adam Scott was the last participant to declare victory at a PGA Tour event held at a Donald Trump-owned golf course, and he supplied some cautionary advice to first-timers a decade later. The Cadillac Championship kicks off on Thursday as the tour makes its return to Trump National Doral’s Blue Monster for the first time since the president’s initial election in 2016, although the $20 million signature event options a comparatively weak area, with Rory McIlroy notably among those selecting to sit out the event.

Scott, who captured the WGC Cadillac Championship at Doral before the event went dormant, contends the course and its calls for have remained largely unchanged, though this time around, there’s a conspicuous gold statue of President Trump that has develop into a speaking level among players.

When questioned about what rivals will encounter in Miami this week, the 45-year-old PGA Tour star told reporters, “It’s called the Blue Monster for a reason.” It got here as Trump stopped in the center of the state dinner speech to ship an awkward reward.

“It’s great to be back here. Good memories for me, obviously, winning the last time we were here, but I always enjoyed playing this golf course,” Scott continued. “It’s a challenge. It’s called the Blue Monster for a reason. It’s a big golf course, very penal. The wind can blow, and that’s the biggest challenge out here. So you’ve got to strike it well, just demanding tee-to-green.

“I believe there are a couple added tee packing containers, but it is just about how I bear in mind it. It was very newly renovated when we have been last right here, and it was in implausible condition, and it appears to be in great form again.”

“It’s fairly good, the greens are receptive at the second, so the nice photographs are actually rewarded. So I believe it is going to be a good check this week. With a little wind blowing, it is going to ask a lot of questions of everybody all week.”

Scott believes the par-four 18th hole, in particular, will cause headaches this week. He said: “It’s just such a demanding driving gap. Obviously, it is a long gap, so everybody’s wanting to transfer it down there as best they will.”

“From reminiscence, it looks like the wind may be in off the left or at least off the left very often, which forces you to purpose toward the water. The fairway is one of the more slim fairways on the golf course, so there’s not a lot of room as that ball begins shifting on the left-to-right wind to maintain the golf green.”

“Just a very demanding tee shot. If you are in the golf green, it is still a demanding second shot with the water left again, but once you are off the golf green, it is actually powerful because angles are a downside, tough is a downside, and trees are a downside.”

“So it is a great closing gap for championship golf because it calls for two great photographs to have a variety of a regulation par. I fairly like that, to be trustworthy.”