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Scheffler's press conference answer goes viral and leaves rivals facing deep and difficult questions
IT WAS JUST past 11am when we gathered at the feet of Scottie Scheffler for another sermon on the mount. (The mount in this case being a mounted table in front of rows of seated hacks beneath a canvas roof rippling and wobbling in the wind.) During the course of a magnetic press conference, Scheffler was asked about the books he read, and revealed he really only leafs through the Bible. That a professional golfer would speak openly about their belief in God is not unusual, but it's still a rarity when compared to the number of golfers who take an interest solely in whether God believes in them. Scheffler's faith is often cited by pundits trying to explain his astonishing consistency: yes, Scottie has the talent, but his belief imbues him with a serenity that forestalls the kind of mental frazzling that compounds errors and ruins scorecards. Whatever the truth in that – like all religion-based philosophies, nobody will be around to verify or rebuke it when they find out whether it was true all along – it has given Scheffler an interesting perspective away from the course, which he shared with us in a fascinating, five-minute disquisition in response to a fairly banal question asking him for how long he typically celebrates success. (Similar questions this week went to Xander Schauffele and Shane Lowry – Xander hinted he didn't drink as much as the Irish would, while Lowry gave the impression of being highly irked by this Stateside stereotyping of him as some kind of pint-swilling, ballad-belting craic merchant.) Scottie Scheffler just gave one of the best (and deepest) press conference answers ever heard. — Golf Digest (@GolfDigest) July 15, 2025 Scottie somehow took things in an altogether different direction. First he mentioned the The CJ Cup Byron Nelson title he won in Texas in May, a tournament frankly everyone in the room forgot he had won. 'To win the Byron Nelson Championship at home, I literally worked my entire life to become good at golf to have an opportunity to win that tournament', he said. 'You win it, you celebrate, get to hug my family, my sister's there, it's such an amazing moment. Then it's like, okay, what are we going to eat for dinner? Life goes on.' Advertisement Scottie went on too. 'Is it great to be able to win tournaments and to accomplish the things I have in the game of golf? Yeah, it brings tears to my eyes just to think about because I've literally worked my entire life to be good at this sport. 'To have that kind of sense of accomplishment, I think, is a pretty cool feeling. To get to live out your dreams is very special, but at the end of the day, I'm not out here to inspire the next generation of golfers. I'm not out here to inspire someone to be the best player in the world because what's the point?' This was a delightful antidote to the LIV Tour defectors who dressed up their greed beneath the thin veneer of horseshit that was their scripted claim that they were motivated to Grow The Game. But stick with us – we're not even at the best part. 'This is not a fulfilling life. It's fulfilling from the sense of accomplishment, but it's not fulfilling from a sense of the deepest places of your heart. 'There's a lot of people that make it to what they thought was going to fulfill them in life, and you get there, you get to No. 1 in the world, and they're like what's the point?' Scheffler went on to say he finds true fulfillment in fatherhood and family, and yet golf still has an oppressive hold on his emotions. 'That's something that I wrestle with on a daily basis. It's like showing up at the Masters every year; it's like why do I want to win this golf tournament so badly? Why do I want to win The Open Championship so badly? I don't know because, if I win, it's going to be awesome for two minutes.' A few observations. Firstly, Scheffler has been on the island of Samuel Beckett for all of five minutes and already he's wrangling with grand existentialism. We're not talking about any inward crisis of identity, by the way. Scottie might be aware that golf delivers nothing but a terrifyingly fleeting joy, but the fact he can say this out loud while talking about the importance of family means, really, he has it all sussed. No, Scheffler's comments implicated and tangled everyone else into these deep and terrifying questions. The sportswriters sitting in front of him, for one, given we spend ing our working days carving great arcs of failure and redemption, adjusting their angles, slopes and contours for whomever is sitting in front of us. That the world's best golfer would blithely tell us that all the sincere meaning and cheap drama with which we freight his sporting events is illusionary is, of course, deeply, deeply chastening. But a sportswriter having an identity crisis is routine and uninteresting. What must Scheffler's competitors have made of this? They do not win as often as Scheffler, and yet they have to work as hard as he does to merely stand still. Scheffler's rivals have to find a reason to work that hard, and so they invest the struggle with a kind of dignity and sanctify their daily grind, telling themselves that one day, all of this hard work will ultimately be worth it. This is ironically quite a religious angle to take to life, to act in anticipation of a final gratification that may never come. Given the level of absorption necessary for this kind of business, its hard not to allow it seep into all realms of your life. But Scottie is here to tell them that, at the end of it all, the juice is not really worth the squeeze. Golf will not save you, gentlemen. So should you even try?
Time of India
06-07-2025
- Business
- Time of India
Scottie Scheffler's $15.8 million PGA tour payday leaves NHL's top star in the dust
It's the kind of payday that would make even hockey's biggest names blink. As the John Deere Classic wraps up, golf fans are glued to the final leaderboard—but there's another number grabbing the entire sports world's attention: $15.8 million. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now That jaw-dropping figure is what World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler has already banked on the 2025 PGA Tour, easily surpassing the entire 2025–26 season salary of 's highest-paid player, , who will earn $14 million. It's not just a paycheck—it's a statement about consistency, dominance, and the economics of golf that is making other pro sports take notice. Scottie Scheffler's 2025 earnings vs. NHL's top salary Golf Digest highlighted the staggering comparison this weekend with a simple but powerful graphic that said it all: 'Scottie Scheffler's 2025 earnings so far: $15.8M.' That single line didn't just outpace Draisaitl's NHL salary—it laid bare the scale of Scheffler's dominance. The 29-year-old Texan has made prize money look effortless this season, playing 14 PGA Tour events without missing a single cut. But this isn't just about showing up. Scheffler has won three times already, delivering commanding performances at the PGA Championship, The CJ Cup Byron Nelson in Texas, and the Memorial Tournament in Ohio. His Memorial win was historic—it made him the first golfer since Tiger Woods to successfully defend that title at Muirfield Village, underscoring the level he's playing at in 2025. Scottie Scheffler's consistent 2025 PGA Tour dominance sets new standard for elite golf What sets Scheffler apart this year is not only the size of his paychecks but the consistency with which he earns them. He has finished in the top 10 an astonishing 11 times, showing week after week that he's the man to beat on the PGA Tour. Golf Digest's viral post on Saturday wasn't merely about the money—it was about a golfer setting a new standard for excellence. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now As they framed it, his earnings are a direct reflection of how commanding his performances have been. After wrapping up a T-6 finish at the Travelers Championship in Connecticut, Scheffler took a short, well-deserved break. Now, he's gearing up for The Genesis Scottish Open, an important tune-up before heading to Royal Portrush in Northern Ireland for The Open Championship. Each event represents another chance to add to his growing legacy and massive 2025 season earnings. Scottie Scheffler's 2025 season cements his legacy as PGA Tour's dominant force At 29 years old, Scottie Scheffler isn't just chasing prize money—he's chasing history. Already a three-time major champion, he's halfway to a Grand Slam this season, an achievement that would place him in rarefied company. His ball-striking has been precise, his composure unshakeable, and his results a testament to an athlete in total control of his craft. Whether it's PGA Tour prize money, major championships, or career-defining milestones, 2025 is shaping up as the year Scottie Scheffler redefines what it means to dominate professional golf—and the whole sports world is watching. Also Read:
Yahoo
04-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Rockies hilariously slam Scottie Scheffler, troll themselves after winning first series of the season
The Colorado Rockies are finally better than Scottie Scheffler. After a brutal month where the top-ranked golfer in the world somehow managed to keep up with a professional baseball team, the Rockies are back on top — and they're laughing at themselves perfectly. The Rockies, amid a historically awful start, swept the Miami Marlins this week . Their win on Tuesday night officially gave them their first series win of the season, which snapped a league-worst 22-series losing streak dating back to last fall, and Wednesday's win gave them their longest winning streak of the year. Advertisement While they are still objectively terrible — they sit at just 12-50, which is by far the worst record in Major League Baseball — the Rockies are now beating Scheffler. That wasn't the case in May. Scheffler has been on a dominant run on the PGA Tour. He flew ahead to a massive win at The CJ Cup Byron Nelson early in May, and then won the PGA Championship in his next start to claim his third career major championship. Then, after a T4 finish at the Charles Schwab Challenge, Scheffler won the Memorial Tournament on Sunday. Over that span, the Rockies also won just three times. The key difference is that Scheffler made just four starts on Tour. The Rockies played 26 games. Advertisement While that led to plenty of jokes for the Rockies, they weren't the only target. The Tour even trolled the Carolina Panthers briefly, though they deleted the posts, after Scheffler picked up his 15th career win since 2022. Though the Rockies are flying high on their win streak, there's one important thing to note here. Scheffler has yet to tee it up since they started winning. If they can't bank a few more wins before the U.S. Open starts next week, and Scheffler's run continues, the Rockies may find themselves back in the same position later this month. Hey, at least they're laughing with the rest of us.
Reuters
28-05-2025
- Business
- Reuters
Scottie Scheffler maintaining an evil keel ahead of Memorial
May 28 - Scottie Scheffler enters the Memorial Tournament as the defending champion, but that doesn't make him feel overconfident as he prepares for Thursday's opening round in Dublin, Ohio. "When you show up to an event, everybody's at even par," Scheffler told reporters Wednesday. "People ask, I feel like a lot, 'What's it like defending this week?' I'm like, 'Well, what does that do for me? Nothing'. I have some experience the on the golf course that can be helpful, but at the end of the day, you start even par, and I want to be in contention on Sunday, and you definitely don't show up too high or too low." Scheffler, 28, is in the midst of another incredible season. In 11 tournaments, he's won two and finished in the Top 10 eight times. In his past six tournaments, he has won The CJ Cup Byron Nelson and PGA Championship, finished T2 at the Texas Children's Houston Open, placed fourth at the Masters Tournament, was T4 last week at the Charles Schwab Challenge, and T8 at the RBC Heritage last month. The Memorial, founded by Jack Nicklaus at his Muirfield Village Golf Club, is Scheffler's third consecutive weekly tournament. He said he is "rested enough." "My third week in a row, but I got some good rest to start -- last week, after the PGA, I got some good rest Monday and Tuesday and had a good start at Colonial. Took my day off, came here, played nine holes yesterday, played nine holes this morning, so feeling ready for the week." And he said as with all events, he is not entering with a predetermined notion that he will win. Last year, he topped Collin Morikawa by one stroke, finishing at 8-under par to win the Memorial. "If you show up with too low of expectations, not feeling like your game's in a good spot, you're probably not going to hit a lot of good shots," he said. "And if you show up feeling way too good about yourself, I think it can have an effect on your focus. Like, if you just show up and be, like, 'Oh, I'm best. I'm just going to show up and win this week,' I think almost sometimes you can get a bit lazy at times out on the course. ... You have to be very focused on what you're doing." Even as the field heads into a $20 million signature event, Scheffler was asked to look ahead to the Tour Championship in September. The PGA Tour announced Tuesday it is doing away with the staggered scoring start that rewarded leaders in FedEx Cup points with a more favorable starting score -- a change Scheffler had advocated for. "I think when you're looking at a golf tournament, I think the best way to identify the best player over the course of a tournament is 72-hole stroke play on a really good golf course. I think when you look at a good test of golf and you got to compete over four days, I think that's the best way to crown the best winner for that week. "And looking at the Tour Championship, I didn't love the previous format of starting strokes, and I really like the direction where we're going. I think the Tour Championship's going to be difficult to qualify for. Making the Tour Championship is truly going to be the results from a great body of work over the course of a season, and then you have an opportunity to win the Tour Championship and the FedEx Cup." Scheffler won his first Tour Championship last season. --Field Level Media
Herald Sun
24-05-2025
- Sport
- Herald Sun
PGA golfer Harrison Endycott opens up on dark times and alcohol battles
The Korn Ferry Tour is golf's Bermuda triangle, a cosmopolitan melting pot of young up-and-comers trying to make it to the big leagues, and grizzled veterans trying to get back there. Most are stuck for years and then slowly fade away into obscurity. But it also captured a beautiful moment when Endycott finally locked up his PGA Tour status, with his dad Brian flying over from Australia to be there. They hugged and cried at what he'd achieved, but mostly because Endycott's mother, Dianne, wasn't there. She died from ovarian cancer when Harrison was just 15, largely keeping the details of her prognosis from the teenager. Endycott took her death hard. He was angry, rebellious, skipped school, the lot. 'The cards I got dealt with growing up to this point, for a long time I felt like my life was like sitting at a blackjack table and I kept getting dealt 20 … and the dealer keeps getting 21 every single time,' he says. 'I had a lot of trauma as a kid. I had a lot of things that happened in my life that I never dealt with. I thought I was the unluckiest person in the world. I needed help with that.' FINDING HELP AND A NEW PATH Endycott is speaking about his own mental health battle, partly, because he was afraid of his family receiving a phone call like the one Grayson Murray's parents had to receive in early 2024. Endycott, 28, confronted his own condition at Kentucky just two months after Murray took his life. The American had already won a PGA Tour event in early 2024 and was ranked inside the world's top 60. He'd been open with his own mental health battle. A week before he died, Endycott saw Murray on the putting green during practice for a PGA Tour stop. 'You wouldn't have had a clue,' he says. Murray was found dead a day after withdrawing from a PGA Tour event in Texas. 'I was definitely in a place where that could have been me,' Endycott says. 'I was close to going down (a path) where my family received calls his family had to receive.' After consulting the PGA Tour's player relations team, Endycott was immediately booked in to see a therapist. He didn't touch a golf club for almost four months, purely working on his mental health. His first challenge was to get sober. He stayed that way well until this year, and only occasionally has a limited amount of alcohol now. He found other pursuits to rewire his mind, mostly entailing health and fitness, where he now works out up to six times a week in the gym. He's the fittest he's ever been, enough for him to quietly make a return to professional golf last month on the Korn Ferry Tour. He made his first PGA Tour start in almost a year at The CJ Cup Byron Nelson, won by world No.1 Scheffler, and will continue to be given starts under a medical exemption. Endycott didn't survive the cut in Texas, but that didn't mean he grabbed the nearest bottle either. 'A missed cut last year resulted in me sitting at a bar getting s---faced, feeling good about myself that way,' Endycott says. 'But I've found the love of the game again. Results are part of the journey. I'm playing golf now because I love golf. 'Every week feels like a stepping stone now. A four o'clock alarm to go and play … I can't wait for that. And I've learned it's OK not to be OK. People will always listen. 'The second chance I've been given, whatever I do in life is always going to be filled with joy because of what I've dealt with.' Lifeline (24-hour crisis line): 131 114 Beyond Blue: 1300 22 4636 or Kids Helpline: 1800 55 1800 or Headspace: 1800 650 890 or
