After visiting the Louvre artwork gallery together with his household, and watching some desk tennis, Scottie Scheffler says the one cause he has come to the Paris Olympics is to win the gold medal
What sort of worth do you place on profitable an Olympic gold medal?
I attempt to place an equal quantity of worth on all of the tournaments I play, however it might be very particular to win a gold medal.
It solely comes round each 4 years, so that you by no means know what number of alternatives you going to get to win one. I beloved going to observe desk tennis and gymnastics, however that’s not why I confirmed up right here.
I really feel like that any time I present up, I’m making an attempt to do my greatest, and that’s undoubtedly the case this week. It’s particular to be a part of the Olympics and I’m trying ahead to the prospect to compete for a medal.
What’s the camaraderie like within the Workforce USA golf camp?
Yeah, we’ve all recognized one another for years. Collin [Morikawa] and I am going fairly far again, all the best way to junior golf. We have been all a part of the Ryder Cup group final 12 months and we’re fairly shut buddies. We’ll play all our apply rounds collectively this week. We went out immediately and had a superb recreation.
Workforce camaraderie is all the time good. We get alongside rather well and had some enjoyable. I feel we’re all simply actually excited to characterize our nation and in search of a medal.
What did you make of the course at Le Golf Nationwide?
I performed 18 and performed 9 immediately. My caddie, Teddy, caddied within the Ryder Cup right here in 2018, so he had lots of good information on the course.
The tough is just not almost as penal because it was for the Ryder Cup and proper now the golf course is just not almost as agency. We’ll see how the climate is for the remainder of the week however I’m certain it should agency up a bit if we get no rain.
Teddy did point out how a lot the course modified from practise rounds to tournaments that week, so possibly it will likely be slightly bit comparable this week when it comes to the golf course altering.
What are you most pleased with as you look again over your performances this 12 months?
I feel largely I’m pleased with how I’ve been mentally. I feel being within the highlight could be difficult at occasions, and I felt like final 12 months was pretty difficult in a way of the questions I used to be receiving in areas like this, appeared to have extra of a detrimental connotation and this 12 months they appeared to have a way more optimistic connotation.
To be sincere, I haven’t modified an excessive amount of from final 12 months. I’ve simply been out right here competing and I’ve been lucky to have just a few wins. However after I present as much as a match, I don’t really feel any completely different. I’m not making an attempt to be any completely different. I don’t present up performing just like the No.1 participant on the earth, and I don’t present up as anyone aside from myself, and I simply attempt to do my greatest to compete.
I’d say I’m probably the most pleased with myself within the final couple years of not being overly emotional with how my golf has been, whether or not or not it’s too detrimental or too optimistic. If it was too detrimental, I’d be in all probability a fairly depressing individual to be round and if was too optimistic; if I beloved myself an excessive amount of, I’d in all probability be a fairly robust individual to be round as nicely.
I’m simply pleased with displaying up and competing and having some constant outcomes this 12 months.
Are you doing something higher this 12 months than you probably did the earlier 12 months?
I feel should you took a have a look at my statistics, I feel my placing has gotten higher than final 12 months and I feel I nonetheless have lots of room to enhance in that space.
Based mostly on pure statistics, I went from dropping photographs on the inexperienced to I feel I’m optimistic now. Seeing these little outcomes like that may be actually nice to your confidence, figuring out you’re engaged on the proper issues and dealing in the proper course.
I imply, typically the sport is actually simply so simple as that, holing a pair extra putts. Undoubtedly this 12 months I’ve holed some putts in key moments. I’ve appeared again at rounds like I had at THE PLAYERS, holing key putts; just like the Masters; making the putt to win on the Memorial. The margins out listed here are so small that typically you’re a superb break free from profitable a match and a nasty break free from dropping one.
This 12 months thus far I’ve been on the proper facet of issues, and final 12 months I’d say I used to be on the fallacious facet of issues for some time. Form of simply the ebbs and flows of taking part in in recreation for a dwelling. It’s by no means that simple to win, and you already know, typically you’re good at it and typically you’re not.
How do you see the vote swinging between you and Xander [Schauffele] for the PGA TOUR Participant of the Yr Award?
I strive not to consider it. I’ve had a fairly good 12 months and Xander has had a fairly good 12 months as nicely. It’s for folks to vote on. I’m pleased with the 12 months that I’ve had and the constant outcomes. Xander is one other participant that’s extraordinarily constant. I like seeing folks like him have success as a result of he does it the proper approach. He works onerous. He’s not stuffed with himself.
We have been praying a apply spherical immediately and I used to be really fascinated by it like, man, Xander is the very same individual immediately after profitable two majors as he was if he had misplaced them each by one.
We have been having such a superb time with the blokes taking part in the apply spherical, I assumed to myself, this man received two majors this 12 months, and issues have been nonetheless the identical. You wouldn’t know that he received the US Open or Collin received the PGA. We have been all on the market having a superb time. That’s why I like seeing those who do issues the proper approach, work onerous and have success.
I’m extraordinarily completely satisfied for him and that’s one of many nice joys I’ve out right here competing with my buddies is having the ability to rejoice good moments like that with him and hopefully displaying up this week and have a second for myself.
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