Adam Scott set to pay his dues 'back home' It is amazing how much confidence you can take from a win here. So grateful is Melbourne's sporting public that Adam Scott finds time in his jam-packed schedule to compete in the Australian Masters, it has almost created the idea that seeing the world No.2 win our event means more to us than it does to him. Considering his status in the sport, the millions of dollars he earns every year and the calibre of tournament available to him every week, Scott could be forgiven for thinking that his mere presence at an event offering a winner's cheque of $180,000 is enough. To a certain degree, Scott admitted something to that effect when he spoke with the media on Wednesday, acknowledging that his participation in the Australian summer is his primary contribution to the sport in this country. You would not blame the 34-year-old for taking the attitude that winning the gold jacket for a third straight time this week, as nice as it feels on his flag-bearing shoulders, would be a bonus rather than a necessity. Should something go wrong, spending four days walking Metropolitan Golf Club - a course that could host a major tomorrow if need be - seeing his family and just generally re-energising himself for next year in his spiritual home is not exactly a waste of time. After all, these events take into account his own schedule, something he more or less confirmed on Wednesday. "I've got to say, the tournaments here were really helpful in making it happen," Scott said of his availability for this summer's three events. Scott could take that relaxed, nothing-to-lose mindset, but if he is, then he is doing a good job bluffing those around him. Asked to recall his first Australian Masters win in 2012, Scott went on to explain unprompted how highly he valued not just playing these tournaments, but winning them, and what doing so at the end of one year means for his success internationally in the next. "We all sat here and somewhat joked, I guess, afterwards about winning the gold jacket and then the green one's next," Scott said, remembering how his 2012 Masters victory ultimately turned into a bigger won at the 2013 US Masters. "But it is amazing how much confidence you can take from a win here, and what it can do for you and spur you onto," he said. I look at these events this year as exactly the same. The better I can do, the more confidence it builds heading into next year, and I've seen the positive effects that's had in the past. It is also apparent that he wants the chance to do something none of his heroes growing up were able to achieve - that is, to complete a Masters "three-peat" - as much as others want it for him. I have a lot on the line. I can make my own little bit of history," he said. So I'm putting everything into these three weeks. As much as he is looking forward, Scott says he is also using his three playing weeks in Australia to make up for ground not exactly lost, but perhaps not taken on the international circuit this year. Scott admitted to not getting the rub he had hoped off of his golden summer in Australia last year, where he won the Masters, PGA Championship, the team's event at the World Cup and came so close to Rory McIlroy at the Open - a loss he still describes as a "thorn in my side." Scott won one event on the USPGA Tour in a year he became world No.1 for a short period and completed top 15 finishes in all four majors without saluting. "I think I could have got more out of it," Scott said of 2014, before adding "but I still can with some good weeks down here." As much as he values these tournaments, Scott revealed there would come a time when playing all three events would not be possible. "But I'll always try," he said.