Scott, the 2013 Masters champion, finished T-18 at the WGC-HSBC Champions in October before taking a long break in which he also didn't compete in his home country of Australia and didn't touch a club for six weeks, perhaps the longest layoff since he turned pro. The next WGC is the Mexico Championship in late February, the last event on the West Coast and coming right after the Genesis Open at Riviera Country Club, one of Scott's favorite venues. The WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play falls two weeks before the Masters. The season's finale in the series is the WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational, which not only replaced the Bridgestone Invitational at Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio -- where Scott won in 2011 -- but also is scheduled the week after the Open Championship in Northern Ireland.