At the 2024 Open Championship, Adam Scott was asked what kept him and Justin Rose, both of whom came up short of their second major that week, going. Scott delivered his answer with his trademark smile and a chuckle.

“Always being a ‘Nearly Great’ of the game is spurring us on in our later years,” Scott said that Sunday at Troon.

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It was honest and illuminating. For all he has achieved in the game — a Masters champion, a Players champion, World No. 1 — Adam Scott still views himself as an underachiever. A year later at the U.S. Open at Oakmont, Scott offered a little more as he entered Sunday with another real chance to finally…

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