It’s been nearly a year since Scottie Scheffler sat inside an interview room overseas and wondered, “What is the point?”
“This is not a fulfilling life,” Scheffler said ahead of last year’s Open Championship at Royal Portrush. “It’s fulfilling from the sense of accomplishment, but it’s not fulfilling from a sense of the deepest places of your heart.”
Those hoping for similar introspection were likely disappointed on Wednesday in North Berwick, Scotland, where Scheffler will compete in this week’s Genesis Scottish Open against Rory McIlroy, Jon Rahm and others.
Has Scheffler had time to reflect on last year’s Open triumph?
“I’m not really a good reflector,” responded Scheffler, still jet lagged. “I don’t really sit around too much and think about the past, to be honest with you. I feel like I’m in the middle of my career and probably the end of my career is more a time to reflect. Right now, I’m just focused on what I need to do, and maybe I should sit and enjoy things more, but that’s just not my nature.”
How about his 20s as a whole?
Scheffler, who turned 30 on June 21: “Not really.”
“My hair has been receding for years, so 30 is not going to have any effect on that,” Scheffler continued. “Yeah, I don’t have a good answer. Wish I had something better.”
Q. You just turned 30 and that is a massive time for reflection for lot of people, an age that freaks them out or is a reflective time. So in the last month or so, a few weeks, has Scottie the person thought about being 30, the dawn of a new decade for you and maybe what your 20s… pic.twitter.com/vf12T7kvFL
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Perhaps the only revelation Scheffler provided from this presser was how much he enjoyed being in possession of the Claret Jug. After Scheffler’s victory at Royal Portrush, he, family and friends had a party back home in Dallas. Scheffler placed both the jug and his Wannamaker Trophy on the dinner table, and there was plenty consumed out of both – including lemonade, which was enjoyed by the 10-year-old son of Scheffler’s manager.
Such celebrations, Scheffler says, aren’t fleeting.
“I’d say those are always the memories that really last,” It’s pretty rare in this game when you get to achieve something that you have longed for for a long time. It’s fun for me to be able to go home and celebrate with the people that are closest to me and that helped me get into that position, as well.”
“I was surprised,” Scheffler continued, adding that he never took the jug out anywhere. “… Like [the Claret Jug] was something to me that I always understood the history and the significance, and you see the names on there and how far is goes back. And it’s like the perfect size trophy, not too big, not too small, and you get to drink out of it; that’s an added bonus.
“It was something that is very special to me. And you know, it will be very tough to hand it back on Tuesday next week, but I’ll be fighting like heck to get it back on Sunday.”
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