Scottie Scheffler It takes two months (57 days to be more exact) of vertigo. He has won four tournaments and, among them, the Masters. He is the second player in history to win 4 tournaments, including a Grand Slam and a World Cup. The other? Tiger Woods: in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008. Eight weeks that shoot him at Number 1 in the world. It will be a good time.
arrived at Augusta National as leader of the newly released ranking, with the pressure that this entails, and the Green Jacket in his third participation. He was tied for 19th in 2020 and 18th ex aequo in 2021. He premiered the first position in the world ranking and won the Masters, as they had done before Ian Woosnam (1991), Fred Couples (1992), Tiger Woods (2001 y 2002) y Dustin Johnson (2020).
On Sunday morning he cried like a child when he woke up. He didn’t really know what was happening to him. There were five hours left to go out and play the turn of his life, and the one that was going to change his life definitively, and all the tension of the previous three days came to the surface.
“I was very stressed. I didn’t know what to do. I was sitting there telling Meredith (his wife) that I thought he wasn’t ready for this. I’m not ready, I was telling her, I don’t feel ready for this kind of thing. I felt overwhelmed.” , explained the champion in his appearance before the media already with the Green Jacket on his shoulders.
The Garbage Bag Story
It was then that his wife, who in her day, as soon as she reached No. 1, asked him to take the bag out of the garbage and Scottie said how did she ask him to do that when she had just been No. 1 (funny anecdote revealed by his caddy, Ted Scott), took the bull by the horns. She did so by drawing on the deep religious faith they share. “She said to me, ‘Who are you to say you’re not ready? Who am I to say I know what’s best for my life? And what we talked about is that God is in control and the Lord is leading me. And if today is my time, it’s my time. And if not, then I’ll hit 82 shots. It was a long morning. Very long,” Scheffler said.
“I dreamed of having the opportunity to play this golf tournament. In fact, I had tears in my eyes the first time I received the invitation in the mail (2020). We were lucky enough to play here at the University and I love this place. I love this golf course. If you’re going to pick one golf tournament to win, this would be the tournament I’d want to win. You don’t know how many chances like that, five shots ahead on Friday, you’re going to have. I didn’t want to waste it.”
Scheffler confessed that he did not regain total peace until he got to the field. “I really feel at peace when I’m on the golf course. I think the hardest part of this process is when you’re off the golf course. When I hit the tee at 1 and signed my first pair of the day I finally started to feel comfortable,” he said.
Teased by his childhood friends
Scheffler never minded being made fun of by his friends when they were little. “I wore pants at Royal Oaks because I wanted to play golf on the PGA Tour. I wore pants and a collared shirt to school and they made fun of me, rightfully so. I always wanted to be here, and I never expected it. I never…you know I never expected to be sitting where I am now. You don’t expect things to come to you. You just try to do the best you can with the hand that’s dealt to you. I never thought I was that good at golf, so I just kept practicing and working hard, and that That’s what I’m going to continue to do,” Scottie said.
“The Lord has given me an ability and I try to use it for his glory”
Scheffler confessed that God is the most important thing in his life. “I would say yes. We are not in control of our lives. My faith affects every aspect of my life, not just what happens on the golf course. The Lord has given me a skill and I try to use it for His glory. Outside of that, I’m just here trying to do my best,” he said.
He also acknowledged that he is a follower of another God, this one of rock music: the ‘Boss’ Bruce Springsteen. But Scottie continued to appeal to religion as his mainstay in golf. “That’s all because of my faith. The reason I play golf is that I try to give glory to God and everything he has done in my life. So for me, my identity is not marked by a golf card. I win this golf tournament today or if I lose it and never win another golf tournament my wife is still going to love me I’m still going to be the same person Jesus loves us and nothing changes all I’m trying to do is glorify God. Life is not about a golf score.”
The Scheffler clan, the family, is also another bastion in his life. Her parents Scott and Diane, and her sisters Callie, Molly and Sara (she is in Portugal). In upstate New Jersey, Scheffler’s sons got their start in golf. They moved to Dallas when Diane changed law firms as COO. They quickly decided to become members of the Royal Oaks Country Club mainly because it meant that Scott Scheffler could keep all four children in one place. Scott was the one who played the family man while Diane worked. “No, I don’t see it as anything revolutionary or weird or unusual. It’s just what you do as a parent for your kids,” Scott Scheffler said, tears brimming over his eyes. “You do for your children what you know. I have done it for all of them. They have given us a lot of joy. He is the one who has done all the hard work, not me. I just raised him and tried to be a good father as best I could. “.
“You do for your children what you know. I have done it for all of them. They have given us a lot of joy. He is the one who has done all the hard work, not me. I just raised him and tried to be a good father as best I could. “
Maybe, but someone had to take ‘Team Scheffler’ to all those sporting events. Junior golf tournaments. High school basketball practices. The list is seemingly endless. The fact that Dad was driving hardly mattered. “Luckily for me, I grew up with three sisters and my father was there, and he did a great job raising us,” the Masters champion gushed.
Meredith Scheffler runs in the 18th to congratulate her husband on the victory in the Masters
Scottie wasn’t the only athlete in the family. Callie Scheffler played at Texas A&M and caddyed for Scottie when she qualified for the 2016 US Open at Oakmont as an amateur (missed the cut), and Molly and Sara are also golfers. Though Scott Scheffler admitted with a laugh, “The Schefflers have their problems, but they’re good people. Scottie’s a nice young guy. He’s our son and Meredith’s husband and now I guess he’s the best golfer in the world.”
Family ties extend beyond the Scheffler ‘team’. Rick Smith has worked with Scottie for years, and Rick’s son, Blake, is her agent. There is also logically Ted Scott, the caddy who already knows what it’s like to win the Masters because he carried Bubba Watson’s bag. Rick was at Scheffler’s house on Saturday night, trying to get him to loosen up while he had a three-shot lead going into Sunday. They worked on the position of the ball. And in his mood, watching Instagram videos in an effort to keep things normal. Although Scheffler admitted that he had a stomach ache over the weekend and that he cried on Sunday morning due to the pressure, he barely suffered during the final lap.
In early February, Scheffler was still searching for his first PGA Tour victory. In early April, he’s in the kind of race he couldn’t have imagined as he putted on North Jersey nights. “Now it’s public, which is kind of scary,” said Scott Scheffler. The only child of Scott and Diane Scheffler is aware that he hardly made the trip from Bergen Community College to Augusta National alone. “They weren’t perfect parents, obviously, but to me, they did their best at all times, and I love them for it. You know, I can’t speak to how hard they’ve worked for us. I can’t put it into words, really.” I can’t”, concluded the new Green Jacket.
