Adam Scott hoping to ride the Atlantic Ocean waves to win at Butterfield Bermuda Championship

It’s been a decade since Adam Scott shot a then-course-record 64 to win the now-defunct Grand Slam of Golf at Port Royal Golf Course in Southampton, Bermuda. The reigning Masters champion at the time and on the verge of reaching world No. 1, Scott returns to compete there for the first time at the PGA Tour’s Butterfield Bermuda Championship, citing various reasons for doing so.

“I think whenever you’re coming back to a place where you’ve had good results, there’s a positive vibe, that’s for sure,” Scott shared during a pre-tournament interview on Tuesday.

Scott, 43, hailing from Australia, is gearing up to play events in his native land this month. He was a late addition to the Butterfield Bermuda Championship after appearing in Boston at Fenway Park on Monday for the official announcement of his role on Boston Common, one of six franchises in TGL, a new tech-forward, prime-time team golf league developed by Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy’s TMRW Sports in partnership with the Tour.

“This time of year I’m really not around the East Coast normally,” he said.

For Scott, another draw to the competition is to end his three-year dry spell without a victory, dating back to the 2020 Genesis Championship. Scott, eyeing a 15th Tour title, has been hard at work perfecting his game and addressing his weaknesses to get back on track. He enters the tournament as the second-highest ranked player in the field at No. 45 in the world.

Seamus Power hits his first shot on the 17th hole during the final round of the 2022 Butterfield Bermuda Championship at Port Royal Golf Course on October 30, 2022, in Southampton, Bermuda. (Photo: Andy Lyons/Getty Images)

Bermuda boasts four championship golf courses and a handful of shorter courses, despite being just 21 square miles in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Port Royal, designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr., is the island’s longest test but the shortest on the Tour at 6,828 yards. Scott, confident in his driving and putting, recognizes his weaknesses in iron play and aims to address them to perform better in the tournament.

“If we’re going to look at the stats this year, my iron play was the worst,” he said. “I think I was about 18th in strokes gained driving, so I didn’t feel too bad about that, but my iron play is stand-out terrible this year. So I’ve been addressing that and I’ve made some equipment changes and, you know, testing some of that stuff still this week.”

Asked if there was anything off the course that he was looking forward to doing during his visit to the tropical paradise, Scott, an avid surfer, looked forward to hitting the ocean, adding one more reason he was excited to be back at Bermuda.

Story originally appeared on GolfWeek