Adam Scott Scott: Early missed chances cost me at The Open Championship

Australian Scott recovered well to tie for fifth place at Hoylake, shooting a six-under-par 66 to finish five shots adrift of Northern Irishman Rory McIlroy on Sunday.

The world number one pinpointed his struggles on day two of the tournament as a catalyst for his failed bid to win The Open, after he slipped nine shots off the pace at the halfway stage on the back of a round of 73.

"I'm disappointed but you can get on the wrong side of the draw every now and then," Scott told reporters. "But I still feel like I probably could have done a better job of limiting the damage on Friday when it was pretty tough out there.

"I did by shooting one-over but I could have shot a few better than that and then I could have done better yesterday on the front nine as well.

"It was a slow start when everyone was really going gangbusters. So, that's the way it is.

"I mean momentum is such a big thing and I had a very stagnant 27 holes in the middle of the tournament and that's tough to recover from."

Scott said he will most likely take a few days off before he begins preparations for the final major of the year next month, the PGA Championship.

"I'm going to give myself a little bit of a break and say that, it was such a lopsided draw this week having only a couple guys in the top 25 play on my side of the draw," he said.

"It makes it hard to compete when Rory [McIlroy] has obviously played two beautiful rounds, being nine back and really nice conditions over the next two days is very hard to catch up."