A final round 68 was the ideal note for
Adam Scott to finish on with just two weeks remaining until The Open
Championship at Royal Troon.

The 2103 Masters winner climbed into a
share of 10^th at the WGC Bridgestone Invitational with his second
sub 70 round of the week and will now have a week off to prepare for the year’s
third major.

While Jason Day will be disappointed and
motivated by his final round struggles, Scott will take confidence from his
last competitive outing before Troon which saw him post three birdies against a
lone bogey on a difficult Firestone layout.

Scott, who generally spends a week on site
prior to The Open, will fly to Scotland on a positive as he takes aim at a
second career major.

The former World Number One has been close
at The Open on several occasions and has made no secret of the fact it is the Major
he most wants to win.

Day, too, feels he has unfinished business
at the game’s oldest Major after missing a play-off by a single shot last year
and his chaotic finish at Firestone will act as a strong motivator for him.

Then World Number One didn’t have anything
close to his best stuff for the week in Ohio but put on a masterful display of
powerful iron play and short game wizardry to take a share of the 54 hole lead.

Despite finding just three fairways in the
third round Day was one of only 13 players to break 70 on the day and while the
finish will hurt there were far more positives than negatives from the week.

Also taking plenty from a good week will be
reining Australian Open champion Matt Jones who finished T16 after weekend
rounds of 69-69.

It was Jones’ best finish since February in
what has been a difficult year, the valuable FedEx Cup points moving him back
inside the top-125 in the standings.

Jones had missed 11 cuts in 21 starts
leading into this week’s event including five of his last seven tournaments.

European Tour regulars Marcus Fraser and
Nathan Holman found the going tough for much of the week with Fraser finishing
T38 and Holman T46.

Like Scott, Holman will take plenty of
confidence from his final round 69, his best of the week, as he also heads to
Scotland to contest his first Open Championship. A start he earned thanks to
winning the ISPS HANDA PGA Tour of Australasia Order of Merit.

Marc Leishman perhaps felt the fatigue of
playing three brutal courses in a row, the Victorian teeing up for the third
straight week since the US Open and struggling to find any momentum on his way
to a 55^th place finish.

Steven Bowditch’s 2016 struggles continued
this week with the Queenslander finishing at the tail of the 58 player field.