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GREAT<br />
SCOTT<br />
AUSTRALIA’S NUMBER ONE GOLFER HAS A<br />
BRILLIANT RECORD AT THE COMMERCIALBANK<br />
QATAR MASTERS AND HAS SET HIS SIGHTS ON<br />
EVEN MORE SUCCESS IN 2009<br />
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Whatever the outcome of this year’s Commercialbank<br />
<strong>Qatar</strong> Masters, Australia’s number one golfer Adam Scott<br />
will always reserve a special place in his heart for Doha’s<br />
prestigious European Tour event.<br />
For Scott, the tournament creates an instant feel-good<br />
factor based on his unique success at the Doha Golf Club.<br />
As a skinny 21-year-old, with just one European Tour win<br />
under his belt, he left a top-class fi eld trailing by six shots<br />
to claim his fi rst <strong>Qatar</strong> Masters trophy in 2002.<br />
� en, last year, having established himself among the<br />
world’s top ten players, he carded a blistering fi nal round<br />
61 to become the fi rst repeat winner of the tournament.<br />
In reclaiming the title with a three-shot victory, he beat<br />
off challenges from household names like Henrik Stenson,<br />
Sergio Garcia, Luke Donald, Paul Casey, Ian Poulter, Scott<br />
Verplank and Lee Westwood.<br />
His fi nal 20 under par score in 2008 matched the<br />
tournament record and sealed the Adelaide-born golfer’s<br />
affi nity with the Doha Golf Club course. But, on refl ection,<br />
it was his victory six years earlier - in only his second full<br />
year as a professional golfer on the European Tour - that
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