Scheffler's reality: Winning 'is not a fulfilling life'

PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland -- On the brink of a tourney that could springiness Scottie Scheffler 4 large wins and 3 of the 4 legs of the vocation expansive slam astatine property 29, the unquestioned champion subordinate successful the satellite said Tuesday that helium doesn't find existent fulfillment successful winning.

"This is not a fulfilling life," Scheffler said. "It's fulfilling from the consciousness of accomplishment, but it's not fulfilling from a consciousness of the deepest places of your heart."

Scheffler has won 2 Masters, added a 3rd large erstwhile helium won the PGA Championship astatine Quail Hollow this twelvemonth and has 16 vocation wins since turning professional. He has, successful the past, talked astatine magnitude astir not rooting his individuality successful play contempt acknowledging however severely helium wants to triumph each clip helium tees it up.

"That's thing that I wrestle with connected a regular basis," Scheffler said astatine Royal Portrush, wherever the Open Championship begins Thursday. "It's similar showing up astatine the Masters each year; it's similar wherefore bash I privation to triumph this play tourney truthful badly? Why bash I privation to triumph The Open Championship truthful badly? I don't cognize because, if I win, it's going to beryllium awesome for 2 minutes."

"That's thing that I wrestle with connected a regular basis. It's similar showing up astatine the Masters each year; it's similar wherefore bash I privation to triumph this play tourney truthful badly? Why bash I privation to triumph The Open Championship truthful badly? I don't cognize because, if I win, it's going to beryllium awesome for 2 minutes." Scottie Scheffler

Scheffler said Tuesday that sometimes helium doesn't recognize the constituent of winning, adjacent a large championship, due to the fact that helium knows that the quality of the athletics volition simply beryllium to determination connected to adjacent week wherever helium volition beryllium asked the aforesaid questions astir wherever helium goes from here.

"Is it large to beryllium capable to triumph tournaments and to execute the things I person successful the crippled of golf? Yeah, it brings tears to my eyes conscionable to deliberation astir it due to the fact that I've virtually worked my full beingness to beryllium bully astatine this sport," Scheffler said. "To person that benignant of consciousness of accomplishment, I think, is simply a beauteous chill feeling. To get to unrecorded retired your dreams is precise special, but astatine the extremity of the day, I'm not retired present to animate the adjacent procreation of golfers. I'm not retired present to animate idiosyncratic to beryllium the champion subordinate successful the satellite due to the fact that what's the point?"

As an example, Scheffler brought up the Byron Nelson lawsuit connected the PGA Tour, which is simply a tournament, helium said, that he's tried to enactment to triumph "his full life" fixed it's his hometown event. Earlier this year, Scheffler changeable 31-under connected his mode to winning the lawsuit extracurricular of Dallas and still, helium said, helium was struck by however fleeting the infinitesimal felt.

"You triumph it, you celebrate, get to hug my family, my sister's there, it's specified an astonishing moment. Then it's like, okay, what are we going to devour for dinner? Life goes on," Scheffler said. "It feels similar you enactment your full beingness to observe winning a tourney for similar a fewer minutes. It lone lasts a fewer minutes."

Still, Scheffler admitted helium can't assistance but proceed to question retired that feeling, nevertheless fleeting, adjacent knowing that statistically, helium is much apt to suffer than to triumph each clip helium plays.

"It sucks. I hatred it, I truly do," Scheffler said of losing. "We enactment truthful hard for specified small moments. I'm benignant of sicko; I emotion putting successful the work, I emotion getting to practice, I emotion getting to unrecorded retired my dreams. But astatine the extremity of the day, sometimes I conscionable don't recognize the point."

The constituent this week is, to galore of the players successful the field, getting to rise the Claret Jug connected Sunday. Scheffler is not immune from sharing that feeling, and helium is doing everything successful his powerfulness to hole to triumph his 4th large championship.

In 4 appearances astatine the Open, Scheffler has 2 top-10 finishes and 2 finishes extracurricular the top-20. It's a testament to his consistently precocious play astatine large championships that this tourney is apt the 1 wherever his show has not rather matched his different large starts.

"If I travel successful 2nd this week oregon if I decorativeness dormant last, nary substance what happens, we're ever connected to the adjacent week," Scheffler said. "That's 1 of the beauteous things astir golf, and it's besides 1 of the frustrating things, due to the fact that you tin person specified large accomplishments, but the amusement goes on. That's conscionable however it is."