PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — Adam Scott pulled his 8-iron and stared at his target. He had not won a golf tournament using a short putter in more than five years, but on Sunday at the Honda Classic, the shortest club in his bag plagued him less than the shortest hole on the PGA National Champion course: the 151-yard par-3 No. 15.
In Saturday’s third round, Scott deposited two balls in the water hazard on his way to a quadruple-bogey seven. He arrived at the hole Sunday with a one-stroke lead over his playing competitor Sergio García in what amounted to a two-man battle.