Adam Scott's birthday falls around the time of the British Open and each year it gets just that bit more difficult for him to win -- and just that bit more painful to recall the Claret Jug that so cruelly got away back in 2012.
Yet as he celebrated his 44th birthday at Royal Troon on Tuesday, two days before launching his 24th successive bid to lift the trophy he most covets, there seems a fresh spring in the step of Australia's old Master.
That's because evergreen 'Scotty' is coming off one of his best performances for years, an agonising near-miss while finishing runner-up in the Scottish Open at North Berwick on Sunday when he may well have won if not for an outrageous stroke of luck for the eventual champ, Robert MacIntyre.
