Inside the mind of Scottie Scheffler as superstars pal reveals s**t talks of Open champion in waiting

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5 days ago

Jordan Spieth has lifted the lid on Scottie Scheffler's s**t talks as he saluted his magical pal.
The American ace poured praise onto the runaway Open leader as he bore down on the title at Royal Portrush.
Scheffler opened eyes this week when he talked about golf not being fulfilling and how he couldn't work out how he got so worked up about winning events.
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But Spieth gave an insight into the personality behind the player as he chatted about bounce games with the World No.1.
He said: 'Well, he has that unique ability to, from best I can tell, to separate. But again, when I see him, I'm at the golf course.
"I see him here and there off the course, but when we're playing on the course at home, he s**t talks.
"He's very witty. You can't really go at him because he's smart, and he's got good bullshit.
'I mean, it's not necessarily just to me. It's normally the other people that we're playing with.
"But yeah, not that I want to say it, I'm not going to quote him on that kind of stuff.
'But then when a tournament starts, he's incredibly competitive, as you see. He's kind of plotting along.
"You won't see that much emotion as he continues to strike it like this because the only time you're going to see it is when he's on the greens if he misses putts because he's not missing many shots.
'I wouldn't necessarily think that the golf swing makes as much of a difference as the personality match. I'm thinking about so many other sports and Nikola Jokic is the only guy I can think of that's a superstar that's equally unassuming in any sport in the modern era, and I'm happy if anybody else can find another example, but it's very rare. Most people lean into it and take advantage of it.'
Tennis icon Roger Federer was put forward as a potential name and Spieth added: 'He's maybe the same kind of demeanor and person.
"As a person he's different, but he made more off the court than he did on all the time and he cared to. When Scottie is done playing, he's not going to show back up at tournaments. I can promise you that.'
Spieth left Portrush without the Claret Jug, but he's got targets for the rest of the season and will, of course, return to the scene of his 2017 Open triumph next summer at Royal Birkdale.
He said: 'I think here and there are the two most similar Open venues that are different from the rest because I think that they're played more from the air than they are true links on the ground. There's not many areas that you can bounce and run it up at either course.
'In that way, I at least know what is expected. But it'll be really cool to just go out there and play the course again. I haven't been there since, it'll be cool to relive the memories that I had from the whole week and obviously the last five holes or so.
'That was probably the best, most clutch stretch of golf that I ever played. Anytime I'll go back there in the future. I remember exactly what I was looking at. I remember how I felt. It'll come right back to me.'