Masters Tournament champion Adam Scott doesn't leave home without his green jacket

Masters Tournament champion Adam Scott talked earlier this year about the joy of waking up in his home in The Bahamas and having a green jacket in his closet.

It doesn’t stay there.

Scott says he packs golf’s most famous jacket for just about every trip, including the Tour Championship, which
starts today in Atlanta.

“It’s here with me,” Scott said with a smile. “It comes pretty much everywhere. I wear it in my hotel room all the time just by myself.”

He was kidding about the last part – maybe.

Scott said sometimes he packs the green jacket in his luggage, “but I don’t mind carrying it around.”

Scott also said that on his way to Chicago for last week’s BMW Championship, he played a casual round at Shinnecock Hills and wound up setting the course record with 63.

Scott played the red tees, which are the tips on the Long Island course. He made a 12-foot putt on the last hole to beat by one the record set by Raymond Floyd during a recreational round in 1996.

“It’s pretty cool,” Scott said. “The members got pretty excited when I came off the course, and it’s one of the best tracks in the world, for sure. No one has ever shot that score in over 100 years off the tees I played. So that’s a pretty neat thing.”

Scott had rounds of 75-75 to miss the cut when the U.S. Open was held AT Shinnecock in 2004. It returns there in 2018.