By taking this week off, Adam Scott has denied himself a chance of coming up against his role model Greg Norman.The 22-year-old Australian had already decided to miss this week’s BMW International even before his runaway 10-stroke success in the Scottish PGA Championship, and so will miss going head to head with Norman, who is in the European Tour field in Munich. Scott is now street-wise about scheduling since getting his calendar all wrong after winning the spring Qatar Masters and finishing ninth at Augusta.Following an extended break, he saw his game and his world ranking slump before he pulled out of the nosedive two weeks after the British Open.Having dropped to 61st in the world, the young Adelaide promissed out on the NEC Invitational, so needed his exhilarating Gleneagles success to offset missing a World Golf Championship.With better scheduling he hopes he will not miss out again, although a $256,000 win and 24 world ranking points were some consolation on Sunday. Scott has resisted the temptation to meet up with Norman to take just this one week off before mounting what he hopes will be a serious challenge for a top 20 place in the world rankings.“As far as multiple wins go, I have a few months to spare still and I can work at that and hopefully keep this form going,” said Scott after claiming his second win of the year and third in all.“I thought I did some bad scheduling earlier in the season, so now I’m going to be careful now I’m playing well.“I felt I took too much time after the Masters. I took three weeks off. I felt I played so great for six weeks in a row I needed break. But not three weeks.I didn’t touch a club for about two and a half weeks. I’d do it again at the end of the year - but not in the middle of the year. It was then very frustrating because I played very poorly in big events - the US Open, Scottish Open - and of course my world ranking suffered. I think the more I can win tournaments and move into the top 20 of the world, then I can start targeting majors.”Scott plays the Korea Open next week before returning to Europe for the German Masters. (Reuters)
