Your fame would go off the charts if you won a major, but with the exception of a top-10 at The Masters you've been strangely quiet in them.
Give me a break. I have one other top-10, at the PGA last year. If I can win one over the next five years I'm on a good track. My career has been a steady path, not a meteoric rise. I know I need to putt better, and as soon as I start doing that I'm going to be contending in them all the time.
If you could steal part of another player's game, what would it be?
I'd love to putt better, so I'd like to putt like Tiger or Greg.
Tiger goes on and on about how many miles he does. Do you run?
I train with Vern McMillan and we do stretching, strength-rotation stuff, very little weights. I don't run. I ride the bike.
You came on Tour with another Aussie, Aaron Baddeley. Are you surprised he hasn't won yet?
Yes and no. Yes, because he's extremely talented and has the talent to win. No, because it's so difficult to win out here. It's tough to break through. There are a lot of great players.
People in the media tried really hard to gin up a rivalry between you and Aaron, but it didn't work, did it?
I have a rivalry with everyone I play against. Sergio and I could have quite a rivalry on the golf course. We were both playing well down the stretch at the Booz Allen (this year), and he got the better of me.
You're still tight with another Australian, Geoff Ogilvy?
We just went on holiday with Geoff. Him and his wife and me and Marie went to Biarritz, France, and did some surfing. And I'm tight with Justin Rose and Ian Poulter. The older players don't want to go out at night.
Besides you, which Australian is most likely to win a major?
You've got to figure Stuart Appleby.
Would you change anything you've done over the last 10 years?
Really no. I've put myself in some good positions and taken advantage of some of them. Not even your decision to attend UNLV? You didn't last much more than a year there. Nope. It was an incredible life experience. I learned a lot. I left midway through the fall semester.
Did you tell coach Dwaine Knight?
He was out of the country. I told the assistant and he told Dwaine. I got to meet with him when he got back. I think he was disappointed, and maybe upset, but it's in the past now.
It all worked out pretty well.
It worked out great for me. I think Dwaine came to understand that I had a different viewpoint than him on the whole college thing.
You were just in it for the gambling.
Absolutely. I'd learned how to play every game and how to beat the casinos, and then got out of there while I was still ahead.
Give me a break. I have one other top-10, at the PGA last year. If I can win one over the next five years I'm on a good track. My career has been a steady path, not a meteoric rise. I know I need to putt better, and as soon as I start doing that I'm going to be contending in them all the time.
If you could steal part of another player's game, what would it be?
I'd love to putt better, so I'd like to putt like Tiger or Greg.
Monte Isom
"I'd love to putt better, so I'd like to putt like Tiger or Greg," says Scott.
I train with Vern McMillan and we do stretching, strength-rotation stuff, very little weights. I don't run. I ride the bike.
You came on Tour with another Aussie, Aaron Baddeley. Are you surprised he hasn't won yet?
Yes and no. Yes, because he's extremely talented and has the talent to win. No, because it's so difficult to win out here. It's tough to break through. There are a lot of great players.
People in the media tried really hard to gin up a rivalry between you and Aaron, but it didn't work, did it?
I have a rivalry with everyone I play against. Sergio and I could have quite a rivalry on the golf course. We were both playing well down the stretch at the Booz Allen (this year), and he got the better of me.
You're still tight with another Australian, Geoff Ogilvy?
We just went on holiday with Geoff. Him and his wife and me and Marie went to Biarritz, France, and did some surfing. And I'm tight with Justin Rose and Ian Poulter. The older players don't want to go out at night.
Besides you, which Australian is most likely to win a major?
You've got to figure Stuart Appleby.
Would you change anything you've done over the last 10 years?
Really no. I've put myself in some good positions and taken advantage of some of them. Not even your decision to attend UNLV? You didn't last much more than a year there. Nope. It was an incredible life experience. I learned a lot. I left midway through the fall semester.
Did you tell coach Dwaine Knight?
He was out of the country. I told the assistant and he told Dwaine. I got to meet with him when he got back. I think he was disappointed, and maybe upset, but it's in the past now.
It all worked out pretty well.
It worked out great for me. I think Dwaine came to understand that I had a different viewpoint than him on the whole college thing.
You were just in it for the gambling.
Absolutely. I'd learned how to play every game and how to beat the casinos, and then got out of there while I was still ahead.
