Major Champions On Scheffler's 'what's The Point?' Soliloquy

When Scottie Scheffler arrived astatine The Open earlier this week, he started an existential statement astir nagging unfulfillment, nan fleeting euphoria of sporting victories and nan constituent of being bully astatine golf.

Last week, nan world number 1 attracted praise for his eloquent consequence to a mobility astir nan various challenges of links golf.

This week, his musings successful nan media shelter were acold much philosophical.

Towards nan extremity of an different unremarkable news convention connected Tuesday, Scheffler began to mobility why he moreover plays a athletics which does not springiness him "fulfilment from a consciousness of nan deepest places of your heart".

He said: "There are a batch of group that make it to what they thought was going to fulfil them successful life, and you get there, you get to number 1 successful nan world, and they're like, 'what's nan point?'

"I really do judge that because, what is nan point? Why do I want to triumph this tourney truthful bad? That's thing that I wrestle pinch connected a regular basis."

Given his opinionated successful nan crippled and nan cognition that he takes everything successful his Texan stride, Scheffler entangling himself pinch nan awesome imponderable of his beingness has people caused a operation astir Royal Portrush.

First up successful nan media shelter connected Wednesday was JJ Spaun. Just 31 days removed from winning nan US Open, nan 34-year-old was well-placed to connection his position connected Scheffler's comments connected nan ephemeral sensation of winning.

"I judge there's immoderate truth down Scottie's words," said Spaun.

"Yeah, you do person these precocious aspirations, these dreams to execute things successful play astatine nan highest level, and past you do and it happens truthful quick. You're truthful elated, and past each of a abrupt it's like, now what?

"I tried to descend it successful arsenic overmuch arsenic possible, and it did, but it's a weird feeling. I ne'er thought I would triumph a major. A fewer years agone I was conscionable trying to get successful them. So I think, yeah, there's immoderate testament to that."

Justin Rose was nan adjacent subordinate into nan news convention room. Like Scheffler, nan Englishman has been nan world's starring player, has won a awesome and an Olympic golden medal.

In his 27 years connected tour, Rose has developed a estimation arsenic 1 of golf's astir compelling talkers, and erstwhile asked astir Scheffler's perspective, he said he could surely relate.

"I've been successful that akin business successful position of getting to world number one," said nan 44-year-old who won nan US Open successful 2013 and nan Olympic title successful 2016.

"It's thing you strive and strive and strive and strive for, and you execute it and you're like, ohio OK, it's not needfully what you ideate it to be, but nan activity and nan travel to get location is nan thrill. That's nan breathtaking part.

"What keeps maine going is conscionable beryllium amended tomorrow arsenic a personification and arsenic a golfer than I americium coming and that's enough.

"You want it to manifest into tourney wins and ticking disconnected your goals and your dreams, but really nan travel and nan process of getting location is wherever you person to effort to find nan enjoyment."

Padraig Harrington has been astir moreover longer than Rose. What, then, did nan three-time awesome victor make of nan Scheffler soliloquy?

"I don't want to comparison myself to him, but I genuinely still person a existent emotion for this crippled and bask each bit," he said. "It brings maine tremendous restitution and I don't deliberation I person to awkward distant from that.

"Just because I emotion play doesn't make maine a bad begetter aliases bad parent. They're abstracted entities, you tin bask everything location is astir play and still beryllium bully elsewhere. I conscionable emotion playing golf.

When pressed astir still emotion fulfilled connected nan course, 30 years aft turning pro, he said he still "loves practising, hitting shots and dreaming of what tin be".

Going backmost to Scheffler, two-time Open champion Harrington added: "He was being honest, but those group are going to inquire him astir that for a agelong time.

"He evidently loves to practice, I conscionable don't deliberation he loves nan grind of it. I don't deliberation he needs to abstracted it.

"I've often said this later connected successful my life, I wish I'd spent much clip enjoying my wins erstwhile they happened."

Whoever takes nan Claret Jug location from Portrush connected Sunday, possibly they will person Scheffler's words ringing successful their ears. Maybe it will let them to bask an Open triumph that spot longer.