Adam Scott proves that he / she is back

Adam Scott & # 39; s birdie putt misses just on the 17th today. Image: Getty

Adam Scott is back as a force in world wave, unambiguous.

Scott didn't win the Memorial Tournament today at Jack Nicklaus & Muirfield Village in Ohio, but he went out in the last group, shot a four-under par 68 and defeated the 54-hole leader, former world leader of Germany, no. 1 Martin Kaymer, very comfortable.

The fact that everyone was brought in by Patrick Cantlay & # 39; s beautiful, closing 64, was a side effect on what was going on for the 38-year-old Australian.

The Californian Cantlay was in a different competition, made the lowest final round in the history of the tournament and told his good friend Nicklaus behind the 18th green: "I finished it."

Nicklaus, the largest of them all, had a lot to do with the gifted Cantlay, whose difficulty in finishing it cost him dearly in the past, this is only his second win.

As far as Scott was concerned, he quickly fished the first, and then bogeyed the third, and it wasn't long before he had four shots off the lead. But he got warm on the back nine degrees, hit him on the 14th for a little bird, stood up and down from a greenside trap on the par-five 15th for another birdie and by the time he participated for a long time, curling, downhiller for another birdie on the 16th he was back in the mix.

What he needed was help from Cantlay in the group that lay before us, but it didn't come. On the 17th, Scott hit a beautiful, cutting 200-meter four-iron to the right pin and his four-meter birdie pit burned the hole. Then Cantlay stepped up and down from the trap on the par-four 18th to place eight-under, with a gap of two meters to everything except finish.

Scott, in the fairway on the 18th, knew then that he had to jump from 150 meters to an eagle to force a playoff. Par was the best he could do at the end of a week when his ball-stroke and putting were both world-class and he just finished second at 17-under, two shots behind Cantlay.

: It's tough for the PGA Tour. Shoot 20 or don't think about winning, "Scott said later." It is disappointing not to win, for sure. I played really good golf this week and it just wasn't good enough. I have to be a little better. "

Probably back in the top 20 of the world when this week's rankings arrived, he looks like a great place after a period until 2017 and 2018, when he seemed to be declining as a player. It is his fifth top 10 finish on the PGA Tour this season already.

It was a good week for the Australians. Marc Leishman, who recently suffered from back pain, finished top-five on 12-substandard in a nice run-up to the US Open on Pebble Beach and Aaron Baddeley was on the 22nd.