Scottie Scheffler speaks with the media throughout his pre-Olympics press convention.
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SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France — Scottie Scheffler isn’t one to brag. He’s very a lot of the aw, shucks model, chuckling away stress and, as he stated Monday at the Olympics, exhibiting as much as every event as the identical actual particular person he was earlier than his newest victory.
However at dwelling, it’s beginning to get a bit harder. The trophy room has been rising.
Scheffler is the front-runner for the PGA Tour Participant of the Yr award and in addition the uncommon, doesn’t-need-to-show-up-until-East-Lake designation. He’s claimed so many FedEx Cup factors he may take the primary two weeks of the playoffs off and nonetheless doubtless arrive on the Tour Championship in first place. That occurs once you win six instances in a season. It additionally calls for you get critical about your trophy house.
The winningest room in golf this yr is what Scheffler aptly calls his “Golf Room” at his dwelling in Dallas. His golf equipment are saved in there, outdated “trinkets” from this golf factor and that golf factor, even a pin-sized piece that Augusta Nationwide awards Masters Champions, signifying their membership to the membership. He’ll observe in there, too, so Scheffler has needed to filter out some stuff this yr and, contemplating all of the profitable he’s finished, additionally add extra shelving for trophies. On Monday, he known as that merely, “fairly enjoyable.”
Solely downside was he was profitable at a charge we haven’t seen for the reason that peak of Tiger Woods. Scheffler as soon as gained 4 instances in 5 begins over the course of seven weeks this March and April. He added one other win at the Memorial event, after which polished off June with a win on the Vacationers Championship.
“We have been redoing the room as I used to be profitable a bunch,” he started, “and so we simply sort of needed to proceed to regulate, which was a fairly enjoyable factor to have the ability to do.”
Sure, we think about that may very well be a fairly enjoyable factor to do. The profitable and the adjusting. Additionally a fairly enjoyable flex to make in your basic contractor.
Scheffler’s capacity to not get caught up in his accomplishments is sort of as spectacular as his accomplishments themselves. He seemingly possesses zero scar tissue from shut losses. And appears to by no means trip a wave of overconfidence after a win. There was a little bit of an unbothered nature to his immense success that almost all golf mortals can’t appear to fathom. However he did have one relatable second lately.
On Monday at Le Golf Nationwide, Scheffler was requested if he ever appears to be like round that golf room of his and pause to take pleasure in all he’s finished. Proper now? Not fairly. He hopes to take action perhaps someday this fall, throughout his offseason. However till then, there’s solely actually been one second the place he’s determined to be a little bit of a show-off.
“I believe one time this yr I took like a trophy, I took my inexperienced jacket and the plaid jacket, and I believe I held just like the Gamers trophy in a single hand, and I had one other trophy within the different hand and walked in the lounge like, ‘Sup, Mer.’”
What a visible. One that attracts to thoughts the well-known photographs of Tiger Woods posing with all 4 World Golf Championship trophies without delay, since he was the reigning champion in every event. Solely this might happen from the intimate comforts of Casa de Scheffler.
“On the finish of the day, I’m only a golfer and I’m simply out right here attempting to compete,” Scheffler continued, sprinting again into humble mode. “That’s actually all there’s to it, and generally I’m good at it and generally I’m unhealthy at it. I’ve talked about it so much. It doesn’t outline me as an individual. Doesn’t outline my life and I’m simply blissful to be right here.”
