Story byEvin PriestTue, December 2, 2025 at 5:52 AM UTC·5 min readMELBOURNE, Australia — After 25 years and almost 100 consecutive majors as a pro, former Masters champion Adam Scott doesn’t have many firsts left in his career. Except for one really bizarre scenario: The 45-year-old Aussie has never played an Australian Open at Royal Melbourne. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementArguably Australia’s most famous golfer over the past two decades, Scott has not teed up in his national championship on his homeland’s most celebrated golf course. (Last year, Golf Digest ranked the West course at No. 5 on World's 100 Greatest Golf Courses.)Scott played two Presidents Cups (2011, 2019) and a World Cup of Golf on the crown jewel of the Melbourne Sandbelt golf region of Victoria, but the Australian Open hasn’t been held on its Composite layout since 1991, when Scott was 11.“The fact we haven’t played a national open here since 1991 is going to make this a really special one for every Aussie golfer,” former World No.