FARMINGDALE, N.Y. — For much of 2016, including the first two rounds of the Barclays tournament, Adam Scott has been able to relate well to an observation on golf’s dark and sometimes elusive art by the British golf writer Peter Dobereiner.
“Half of golf is fun,” Dobereiner said. “The other half is putting.”
Scott, an Australian who counts the 2013 Masters among his 13 career PGA Tour victories, has endured mostly frustration on the greens the last several months — a lull for which his reliable ball-striking has not been much of a counterweight.
Putting has not been fun for Scott, 36, despite plenty of effort.