Adam Scott hit wrong golf ball at the Cadillac, gets two-stroke penalty

DORAL, Fla. ― Adam Scott forgot to check his golf ball in the rough and it cost him on Thursday at Trump National Doral's Blue Monster Course. The 45-year-old Australian, who had birdied two of the first five holes, missed the fairway at the 582-yard par-5 eighth at the 2026 Cadillac Championship and played his second shot from the left rough.

But he then discovered that he had played the wrong ball. He incurred a two-stroke penalty for the mistake, a violation of Rule 6. 3(1).

Scott found his original ball and played the rest of the hole with it, making a double-bogey 7 at the eighth and dropping to 2 over. Scott won at Trump Doral in 2016 , the last time the Tour competed here, which makes him the defending champion of sorts — though 10 years removed from when he was playing some of the best golf of his life. That's not the right ball 😬 A nightmare at No.

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