Scott And Spieth Need Exemptions To Signature Events. They’ve Been Down This Road Before.

LA QUINTA, Calif. (AP) — Adam Scott returned to the Sony Open for the first time in three years and jokingly said it was a good place to stop on the way back from Australia. He had other motives, of course. For the second time in three years, Scott finished outside the top 50 in the FedEx Cup and is not eligible for the $20 million signature events. “So I thought I’d try to get a jump on things, rather than show up in February and chase,” Scott said. He tied for 40th in the Sony Open, and then flew to California for The American Express and the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines. Otherwise, it’s going through the process of two years ago when he had to rely on sponsor exemptions for the signature events. Scott asked for (and received) exemptions into five of the signature events in 2024, and he can only wonder if it will hurt his chances going through another round of them. Scott is in a tougher spot than Jordan Spieth, who received five sponsor exemptions in 2025 and narrowly missed out on the top 50 that would have qualified him. Spieth finished No. 61
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