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ADAM Scott has settled on Moreton Bay bugs as a Champions dinner baffler for Augusta and boldly put a career Grand Slam of majors as the main course on his own menu.
The charismatic world No.2 yesterday made certain no one could misconstrue his Masters triumph as hitting any sort of comfort zone because, for the first time, he stressed his hunger to one day walk with the golfing gods.
Winning his first Australian PGA title at Royal Pines, starting today, to complete the rare Triple Crown of big titles in his own country is his immediate aim on a Gold Coast course where it will likely take four rounds of 67 to go close.
Joining Jack Nicklaus, Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Gene Sarazen and Tiger Woods as the only golfers to win all four of the modern majors is aiming as big as it gets in golf but the mere fact he is daring to dream is the impressive part.
Golf star Adam Scott will be honoured today when he is given the keys to the city by the Gold Coast mayor.
"My time to achieve is now so I need to make the most of where my game sits and keep pushing hard because there are so many good players out there," a relaxed Scott said after an eagle and four birdies in his pro-am day two-under-par 69.
"As long as I keep the intensity and practice and prepare I think I can win more majors, win another Masters, win the (British) Open, hopefully US Opens and PGAs.
"I'd love to win the career Grand Slam and put myself in that really small group of players who have win all four majors.
"That would be a good goal but that's a long way off. I've only got one so there's a lot of work to do."
Joining the Masters elite and seven top-10 finishes in his past 12 majors have not only spread belief through every sinew but given him a new perspective of his potential place in the game now Sergio Garcia, Lee Westwood and Luke Donald can deal with the "best player to never win a major" tag.
"I think all the great perks that come from winning the Masters are still yet to happen to me personally. Knowing I'm going back there for hopefully the next 50 years, going to the Champions dinner and attending with legends of the game are going to be the big things that I feel are life changers," Scott said.
"To have a young guy ask me in 40 years what Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer were like will be quite amazing."
Adam Scott holds the Key to the City at Royal Pines Resort on the Gold Coast. Photo: Matt Roberts Source: Getty Images
One of the cool spin-offs to Masters glory is selecting the menu for the Champions dinner the following year. Woods put humble cheeseburgers and strawberry shortcake on the 1998 menu. Bernhard Langer had wiener schnitzel and blackforest cake on a distinctly German menu in 1986.
"Don't be surprised if Moreton Bay bugs are on the menu somewhere. I don't know if I'd get away with serving meat pies," revealed Scott of his liking for the distinctly Queensland crustacean that Augusta National Golf Club will now have to find a way to fly in.
The jacket. It's all about the jacket for Scott, who must return it to a hanger in the Champions locker room in April for wearing only at Augusta National after his year is up.
"I often walk past the closet and if it's just hanging there, I just don't mind slipping it on to wear it around the house for a little bit. Every time I see it I think this is what you've wanted for so long, you may as well wear it as much as you can," Scott said with a smile.
"When someone is coming over I sometimes just leave it hanging over the sofa. The look...'Are you kiddin' me, is that the?'. It's pretty cool seeing that look.
"As a golf fan myself just seeing it for the first time was amazing. I like the fact I can share it with everyone else."
There is emotion that Scott has deliberately kept bottled away for seven months so soaking up the warmth of fans is still fresh.
"I put my head in the sand a little bit from reflecting on the whole thing too much because I wanted to keep playing well for the year and not just wear the jacket and get on the turps for the rest of the year and celebrate," Scott told a spellbound pre-tournament dinner audience.
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