Picture this: The year is 2013. Tiger Woods, with 20 majors in the bag and chronic bad back and bad knees, is dialing down a bit with his schedule. Taking center stage and dueling for the big trophies are a couple of young 30-somethings — Adam Scott and Ryan Moore.

Perhaps Sunday was merely a prelude of things to come. Scott and Moore fought to a third playoff hole, with Scott winning the Byron Nelson on a 40-foot birdie putt. It was Scott’s sixth win on the PGA Tour and Moore’s fourth second-place finish without a victory.

But you know Moore will get his, perhaps sooner than later. At 25, he’s without a doubt the most talented young American player on the PGA Tour. A world beater while at UNLV, Moore was the first player since Woods to go straight from college to the Tour and earned his card without going through Q-school.

Meanwhile, Scott just might be the best 20-something player on the planet. He’s taking over that tag from the heretofore wunderkind Sergio Garcia. The 27-year-old Aussie has a big-time game that’s only been kept from busting out by his balky putter. And, having won the Players Championship, he needs to start collecting majors to fill out his resume.

It might seem a sad indictment that when Trevor Immelman won the Masters, he became the only player currently in his 20s to own a major championship. But if Scott and Moore have their say, that will change. Both players have unlimited potential, but they have holes in their game that need to be addressed before they’re able to contend with the Tigers, Phils and Els of the world.

The first thing on the agenda is winning. Scott is doing that, and now it’s Moore’s turn. His decision to skip some early-season tournaments to nurse a sore shoulder and a bum hand paid off with a steady performance at the Nelson. It’s time for him to take home some actual hardware instead of hefty checks.