Sorry ladies, Adam Scott's not single

Taken ... everything's looking up for Adam Scott. Source: Matt Slocum / AAP

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Adam Scott is excited at the chance to win golf's grand slam, thinks Tiger Woods will break Jack Nicklaus's major record and is not single.

Australia's new hero after capturing the green jacket at the Masters, Scott has talked on American morning television about his playoff win over Angel Cabrera and revealed he's in a relationship with Swede Marie Kozjar.

The pair dated on and off for years before Scott spent time with tennis star Ana Ivanovic and actress Kate Hudson. But he's told CBS This Morning the pair is very much back together.

When told that multiple women were commenting on his appearance, Scott said: "It's embarrassing but flattering. I'm not single at all. I am very much in a relationship and very happy for the moment."

Scott also talked about his victory and what it meant to him.

"I think I'm still trying to digest everything that happened, but it's incredibly satisfying for me as a golfer after really focusing my energies towards being a major champion," he said.

"Sunday morning I absolutely felt that I had the nerves going right from the time I woke up. But it was a great opportunity for me, especially after the Open Championship last year where I was so close but let it slip through my fingers.

"This wasn't all on my shoulders but it was a great chance to go out and make up for that."

The 32-year-old admitted the support of an entire nation was hard not to think of, especially in the playoff.

"Maybe into the playoff. Yes I guess so because we have gone so long and I have answered the questions through my career on when is an Aussie going to win the Masters because it's never happened," Scott said.

"Ever since I saw Larry Mize chip in against Greg Norman in 1987, I was six, it broke my heart," he explained.

"There were four of us playing so well last week, the Australians. It could have been any one of us, I'm just so privileged that it was my time and it fell on my shoulders."

When asked about being the only golfer with the chance to win the calendar grand slam, Scott's eyes widened and his smile grew large.

"That hasn't crossed my mind just yet, but what a great thought. I have to say that's an amazing thought," he said.

Scott also weighed in on Woods's chase of Nicklaus's record 18 majors.

Woods finished fourth at The Masters after some bad luck and an infamous penalty to continue to sit on 14 majors. But Scott thinks he'll get to the magic number.

"I absolutely believe he will," he said.

"He's just proven us all wrong so many times if we doubt him. He'll find a way to do it for sure."

As for Scott and his chase to history?

"My first, I'm on my way, I don't know if I can get 18 but I'd love to get another one some time."

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Video: Scott's Masters dream at 21

Prodigy ... Adam Scott was always tipped for big things. Source:AAP

For a then 21-year-old Adam Scott, the thought of becoming the first Australian to win the Masters seemed almost inconceivable.

When Scott sat down for a chat with Fox Sports prior to his first Masters appearance 11 years ago, the level-headed youngster knew that learning to conquer the perilous greens of Augusta could take time.

"It would be great to happen, but I don't mind if it's this year or next year or in ten years - I'd just love to win it," Scott said.

Asked what it would mean to become the first Aussie to win the coveted green jacket, Scott replied: "I can't even imagine what it would be like right now and I probably couldn't even for weeks after I won it."

The now 32-year-old Queenslander will have plenty of time to evaluate exactly what it means to him after snapping Australia's Masters hoodoo on Monday.

One of the defining moments in Scott's final round was a seven-metre birdie putt on the 18th to eventually send the tournament to a playoff with 2009 champion Angel Cabrera.

It was a clutch right-to-left breaking putt Scott had seen made many times before, even back then at 21.

"You see it all the time so you can see some breaks. [Mark] O'Meara's putt I can see clearly in my mind when he won (in 1998), even Tiger's putt last year (2001) when he rolled that in, even though he didn't need to but he did.

"I don't know if I'm going to get out there and just remember the break off TV. It's probably a bit different when you've got the green jacket riding on the line."

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Watch the full interview with Adam Scott ahead of his Masters debut in 2002.

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Scott's timely bit of major karma

Unadulterated joy ... the golfing gods smiled upon Scott at the Masters at Augusta. Source: Andrew Redington / AFP

Adam Scott has had his share of bad luck, particularly in major championships.

But when he took direct aim at the pin tucked delicately behind Rae's Creek on the par-five 13th with his second shot on Monday, karma paid him back in spades.

The ball looked superb in flight, but landed into a hill and lost its forward momentum. It stopped and Australian hearts skipped a beat when the ball began what seemed an unstoppable roll toward the water.

Somehow, it stopped on a bank that would have yielded its passage nine times out of 10.

A nation breathed again.

Scott duly chipped up with a sand wedge to inside a metre and made a birdie when two minutes earlier the hole had bogey written all over it.

The moment was reminiscent of Fred Couples' 1992 triumph when his wayward tee shot on the par-three 12th hole befuddled Augusta National veterans by not rolling back into the creek that has brought so many Masters dreams undone.

Quite simply, it was Scott's time.

He later referred to winning a major as his "destiny", but said at the 13th that hadn't been obvious.

"I definitely didn't think it then," Scott said.

"There was so much golf to go and I had no momentum on the day at that point.

"I was trying to get something to happen, so that was a great break.

"Everyone who wins gets those kind of breaks. Well, not everyone, but you know, that's a good one, obviously."

Scott went on to make a two-putt birdie on the par-five 15th, then a highlight-reel putt on the 18th green for what appeared to be the winning stroke.

On the sidelines, Scott's Victorian playing partner Marc Leishman, himself a key player during the epic final round, had a front-row seat to Australian sporting history and was jumping around in equally mad celebration - even before his final putt sealed a tie for fourth.

"I was really, really excited for him. After he holed the putt and gave Stevie (Steve Williams, Scott's caddie) high fives, I went over and gave him a high five and it was a real, full-on high five - it stung," Leishman half-joked afterwards.

"My hand was burning. I could barely feel my putter."

He then gave a special insight into the steely determination within the softly spoken Queenslander.

Scott has been major championship bridesmaid many times in the past decade - eight times in the top 10 - including runner-up at Augusta in 2011 and, infamously, the British Open last year.

Such losses could easily have made Scott think the worst when Angel Cabrera weaved some magic of his own to force the playoff, rifling an exquisite approach to set up the required birdie on the last hole of regulation.

But Leishman, sitting in the scorer's hut with Scott and watching the drama unfold on TV, said his mate showed just how mentally tough he has become.

"He was so pumped up after that putt on the 18th, but I think what was even more impressive was when Cabrera birdied the last he had the ability to level off his emotions," Leishman said.

"It was huge. I thought he may have struggled to do that and get back to playing how well he had all day, but he did a really good job of getting back in game mode.

"He just said, once Cabrera hit it close, 'Well, let's get ready for a playoff'.

"He was all business. He wasn't down about it. It was just really good to see."

In hindsight, it's a moment that shows exactly why Scott is now a legitimate golfing force and why he has taken his place among Australia's golfing greats.

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