In yesterday’s Fairfax papers, Bruce Guthrie highlighted (and he wasn’t the first, of course) our celebrity-obsessed culture and the pedestals reserved for stars of stage and screen and sport, while real heroes — medical researchers and the like — go unsung:

“It confounds me why we don’t celebrate people such as this. We don’t pay them enough either.”

And normally we’d agree, of course. But by god if Adam Scott didn’t just win the biggest golf tournament in the world, the US Masters — ending perhaps the longest jinx on Australian sportsmen. Bloody beauty.

Does it count that he’ll probably plough some of his $1.74 million winner’s cheque into his charitable foundation for youth groups?

We’ll remember the scientists tomorrow. Honest.