It was the moment Australian golf changed forever.
In rain and near darkness Adam Scott found the bottom of the cup at the par-4 10th for a birdie three to claim the sudden death play-off and more importantly The Masters Tournament and Australia’s first-ever green jacket.
Scott’s iconic primal scream of “C’mon Aussie” when his birdie dropped at the 72nd hole with Marc Leishman in the background and Ian Baker-Finch’s “From Down Under to on top of the world” in the commentary box echoed the importance of the moment for Aussies everywhere.
For years, Augusta National had taunted our best players who did their valiant best, yet at every opportunity came up short of golf’s most famous article of clothing.
There was Jim Ferrier, an early pioneer for Australians in America. Craig Parry and the taunts of the crowd in 1992. Geoff Ogilvy went close. So too did Scott and Jason Day two years earlier.
But it was Greg Norman, Scott’s idol, who came so agonisingly close again and again at The Masters.
All that heartbreak was, at least temporarily, forgotten on April 14, 2013 when Scott lifted his arms and long putter into the air in a mix of joy and relief.
The moment remembered as a “Where were you when”
