Scott: Swing is '100 percent' despite knee injury

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Adam Scott finished tied for second in the Mercedes-Benz Championship in 2007.

As he prepares for the start of the 2009 PGA TOUR season, Adam Scott says his dislocated right kneecap is about 90 percent.

That leg is sure to be tested on the cliffside Plantation course that hosts this week's Mercedes-Benz Championship, too.

Scott dislocated what he calls the "hyper-mobile" kneecap for the sixth time late last year when he was running out of the water at the beach. December was a "pretty traumatic" month, he said, in terms of rehab.

Scott still has a bit of a calf strain, but the golf game is good.

"My swing feels fine," he said. "I'm not coming out allowing for a bad knee. I feel like I can swing 100 percent."

Scott said there are six possible surgical procedures to correct the problem with his knees and the doctors he has seen never seem to recommend the same operation. But since it doesn't affect his golf, Scott wants to avoid going under the knife.

So in the interim, Scott will need to curtail extra-curricular activities like snow skiing and tennis -- but don't expect him to stop riding the waves.

"I haven't had a problem with surfing," Scott said, although he won't be taking advantage of the waves here in Hawaii, since the knee is not completely healed.

"I'm not strapped to the board at all. I'm free and I can fall in the water -- if I fall, you know. Skiing, I definitely fall, and my legs are strapped to a ski. They can twist so easily. The same with tennis, just violent movement, changing directions."