Kicking Accuracy
During his time as Scotland’s and Edinburgh Rugby’s goal kicker in 2003, Paterson amassed 1860 points.
He successfully kicked 36 consecutive goals for Scotland between 11 August 2007 and 7 June 2008, not missing a single attempt during the 2007 Rugby World Cup or the 2008 Six Nations Championship. This run was brought to an end during 7 June 2008 Test against Argentina. This is believed to have been a world record for consecutive successful kicks at goal in Test play since such statistics were first kept in the late 1980s; this record was broken in 2010 by Morné Steyn of South Africa. During the aforementioned Argentina match, Paterson also overtook Gavin Hastings' long standing Scotland points record of 667, as well as equalling Scott Murray's record of 87 caps for Scotland.
During his playing career he scored 809 points for Scotland (22 Tries, 90 Conversions, 170 Penalties and 3 drop goals).
For Edinburgh Rugby Paterson has amassed 773 points (20T 113C 4D 145P) in the RaboDirect Pro12 and 287 points (9T,40C,0D,54P)in the Heineken Cup He retired from international duty on 21 December 2011, and from Edinburgh Rugby May 2012.
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