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IN a perverse way, blowing a seven-shot lead is the best thing that could have happened to Adam Scott to sharpen him for his Masters defence.
You don't sharpen reactions or putting under title-hunting pressure on the practice range and Scott would have been soft-edged heading to Augusta.
Now he knows he has to get slicker with his broomstick putter and be tougher on himself to be right in the mix for a second green jacket from April 10-13.
The tall Queenslander had the Arnold Palmer Invitational and the prized world No.1 ranking at his mercy before yesterday's inexplicable fade out in Miami.
Dig a little deeper and it was Scott's first tournament in serious contention this year and he's always needed that mental tuning before his best Masters finishes in both 2013 and 2011.
Scott said he was "annoyed" at not closing out the tournament on Monday when his scratchy five-over-par 76 gave American Matt Every the opening to win his first big event.
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"If nothing else, it's a good reminder on how much putting practice I need to do for going to the Masters and just how important it is," Scott stressed.
He took 63 putts across the final two rounds to give up a seven-shot halfway lead and made just one over 2m in the final round when under the pump.
"If I think back to last year, I made every putt that you expect to in that last round (at the Masters) and ultimately that's maybe what gave me the chance to win," Scott said.
"Sometimes you've got to be hard on yourself, sometimes you don't.
"My short game just wasn't there so that needs to be tightened up to hold up under the pressure."
Scott will be cursing. His worst round of the year came three days after his best, a first round 62.
Scott hits out of a bunker on the seventh hole and catches plenty of sand. Source: AFP
He has now lost a British Open (2012), an Australian Open (2013) and the world No.1 ranking with final day wobbles when holding big four-shot leads.
If you pressed Scott on whether a second green jacket or grabbing the world No.1 ranking from Tiger Woods was more important, he'd jump for a wardrobe addition every time.
That quest may well take shape in private over the next few days behind the guarded gates of Augusta National.
Scott is heading back to the scene of his greatest triumph for practice and will find a new-look 17th hole after the loss of the famed Eisenhower tree in a February ice storm.
He will head to his Bahamas base from there with just the right amount of anger to help crank up all parts of his game for Augusta.
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