The world n ° 1, Scottie Scheffler is not intimidated by playing Links Golf this week in the championship open to the Royal Portrush in Northern Ireland.
He does not care that he is the favorite and will not dwell on it if he does not leave with his fourth major championship this week. Or if he arrives to lift the Bordeaux jug on Sunday afternoon.
What really matters to him, what really fills him, he told journalists on Tuesday is to do the right thing for his family.
“Every day, when I wake up early to go to work, my wife thanks me for being out and so hard. When I come home, I try to thank her every day for taking care of our son,” said Scheffler. “This is why I’m talking about the family that is my priority because it’s really.
“It’s not all, final.
Scheffler won 16 PGA Tour victories, including three this season. He won the PGA Championship at Quail Hollow in May to go with his two Masters championships. And he appreciates these victories but always has trouble finding lasting satisfaction in all of this.
“It’s something I fight daily with,” said Scheffler. “It’s like going to the Masters every year; it’s why I want to win this golf tournament so much? Why I want to win the open championship so much? I don’t know because, if I win, it’s going to be great for two minutes.”
However, the competitive fire is moving to Scheffler, 29, this week at the Open, which begins Thursday. He practiced on Monday in Royal Portrush and left with an assessment that many competitors – in particular his unusual American compatriots with links – probably do not share.
“The golf course is good. It’s in very good shape,” he said. “Seems to be a fun place to play.”
While others are worried about the trajectory and rotate the ball, Scheffler is less scientific in his approach to the course of links.
“I’m just trying to have an image of the type of shooting that I want to hit and match the club to that. There is not much reflection that leads to it; it is just to get a photo of what I think is correct and to make sure that it is not too far with my Caddy Ted (Scott), then we start from there and I try to hit the blow,” he said.
Scheffler has a limited experience on links of links but does not feel surpassed.
“I think it corresponds to my strength because I like to do things in a very creative way, and I think here you have to do it,” he said. “I think each year we come, I start to learn a little more and more.”
He continued: “There are a lot of different photos you need to play. It is an interesting golf course, and from what I saw, it seems really fun to play and very fair.”
And at this stage of his career, the pleasure and the family are everything to Scheffler. Even if the pleasure of winning does not stay very long with him.
“If I arrive in second position this week or if I finish the dead last, whatever happens, we are still in next week. This is one of the beautiful things in golf, and it is also one of the frustrating things because you can have such great achievements, but the show continues. It’s just like that,” he said.
“It’s great to win tournaments. It’s very fun. Sometimes the feeling only lasts about two minutes, it seems that when you celebrate, and then it’s like, now you have to go do all these other things, which is great, but sometimes the feeling of winning only a few seconds. It’s quite exciting and fun, but it doesn’t last so long.”
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