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Australian golfer Adam Scott returns to the Memorial Tournament where five years ago he produced his greatest round of golf.
Adam Scott is back where he shot what he rates his greatest round of golf and hopes it will help inspire his first win of the year ahead of the US Open.
On the tricky Jack Nicklaus-designed Muirfield Village layout, Scott scorched his way to a second round 10-under-par 62 in the 2007 Memorial tournament, sending him into the lead.
Although he would fall back into a tie for fifth over the weekend Scott says he's felt a a good vibe ever since when he's teed it up in the prestigious Nicklaus-hosted US PGA Tour event in Ohio.
"That round here was probably the best round of golf I've ever played," said Scott on Wednesday.
"I was the low guy that day by five shots. It was a really tough set up and I shot a hell of a round.
"I can certainly still draw from it and do."
"It is a great course and a great venue and it has that feel of a bigger event.
"It's getting close to the part of the year where it is big tournament after big tournament so it's great prep for the US Open (in two weeks).
"We are on fast greens with plenty of slope and there is some pretty thick rough so it's good."
Scott admits that great round five years ago was probably his best chance to break 60 in a PGA event, having missed short eagle and birdie putts during the round and then throwing in a late bogey.
But he says it's possible someone could do it this week.
"It was a chance to shoot something really, really low that day and it is still possible to do it," the 31-year-old said.
"If you are playing really well the course is so pure you can hit it in really close and use the slopes.
"It's like Augusta in some ways and the greens are so pure if you get hot you can roll in a lot of putts."
Scott comes off a disappointing performance at the Byron Nelson Championship in Dallas where he missed the cut but has dismissed the week off as just an off few days.
"It was disappointing. I didn't do anything well out there. The swing was off, I didn't putt well, nothing was there and it was a shame but that's how it is sometimes and I just wrote it off," he said.
"Other than that it's been a pretty consistent year and I go in here wanting four solid days and then I can see where it leaves me."
Scott leads a 12-strong Australian contingent including Jason Day who is a member at Muirfield Village and lives nearby with wife Ellie.
But despite practicing often at the venue Day hasn't played the course since the 2010 tournament, eliminating any perceived home advantage.