After a pronounced PGA, Scottie Scheffler told the world his secret

Charlotte, NC – you can go ahead and ask it, but Scottie Scheffler will not tell.

World no. 1 learned the secret of his greatness long ago, and then he threw the key.

But if you were looking closely Saturday Afternoon at the PGA Championship, you’ve seen it. (Yes, for Mr. Scheffler, the third rounds are being evenly discovered as the last rounds, even when those last rounds result in Scheffler winning his third championship in great careerAs was the case on Sunday.)

It was there, starting from the 16th hole on Saturday, Scheffler decided to end the golf tournament early. With nearby chasers and pressure mount, Scheffler threw a nail on the side wall of the tournament and laughed while the air sucked. He poured into two birds and one money in the three hardest holes in Quail Hollow to move from a clean field to three, and then, when the last bird fell into the 18th hole, he tried something new. As the ball fell to the bottom of the hole, Scheffler looked at it and shouted.

“F *** yes, baby!!! “

The crowd was very busy (and Chasers were too busy with the commissioning) to notice what had just happened, but dear observers knew they would have seen something interesting. Scottie Scheffler had just told us his secret.

Twenty four hours later, Scottie Scheffler poured into another kick in 18 in Quail Hollow – this for Bogey – and release Another straight roar.

“Yes !!!! F *** Yes !!! I’m talking about it!”

He had just won his third major championship, and the first outside Augusta National. Perhaps most impressive of all, the field seemed surprised to take it long.

“I have to be more accurate and fix what I can fix to make myself more stable and get up there,” said Bryson Dechambeau (T2). “The likes of what Scottie is doing now.”

“Again, I was trying to do my things,” said Keegan Bradley (T8). “I left for such a bad start that I really had no chance of catching Scottie.”

Scheffler’s ability is compelling in the literal sense. He will be faint and faint and lean until something goes – whether golf course or field or, in this week’s case, his driver’s face. He is a big champion three times in just 28 years old, keeping the type of golf game that can travel anywhere in the world and fight. He is the third fastest player he has received from one to 15 wins after Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus for a few days. He is a player without Any visible weaknessessomeone to whom the borders expand and aim at shrinking.

“I mean, you don’t hit there on purpose if you are not Scottie or something else,” Max Homa said after hitting a car on one foot in the 14th hole on Friday for an Eagle Kick.

Had he heard Homa’s challenge, Scheffler went to the same Teeu box on Saturday and intentionally Hit his three -legged intention, jumping to Eagle to start his march that remove oxygen in nine back.

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This is another rare feature for Scottie Scheffler: once it is in the lead, it does not fall. He does not give golf tours, and by Sunday, it was difficult to remember a time he would divide the terrain of any kind while it was late. Eventually, even his waking Sunday – three scams in his first nine holes to briefly reduce his advantage to one – will be forgotten. When the results were calculated, he won with five.

These gifts are simply symptoms From Scheffler disease is sad – a disease that has lived inside every big golf player since the beginning of time. Scheffler has SHEthe thing that separates the good from the greats. It is called a passion, a look or a mentality, but we will call it a fire-a hot white flame that burns hot and bright under the surface.

It looks different in Scottie Scheffler than in other excellent players. He does not ice people out, stare at the souls or tries to destroy the skulls. He catches, smiles and cites Offices. His press conferences occasionally read as the aspirations of a medium career manager.

Question: Do you have any great career goals?
A: “Not really. I don’t focus on that kind of stuff.”
Q: Do you want to win, or do you want to press the opponent?
A: “This is a difficult question to answer... “
Question: If you look statistically, you are actually getting even better (than Tiger Woods), how have you been able to do it?
A: “I don’t know. We put up a lot of work.“

But the truth is impossible to avoid. It reaches big and small moments a day like Sunday, as Scheffler once again strangled the field like a great snake. He can be a man of great confidence and unusual dedication to the family – but a man of great confidence and unusual dedication can also be a killer.

“He hates him to lose. We all do,” said Luke Donald, the captain of Ryder Cup responsible for stopping Scheffler in September. “If you don’t have that fire, you will never be a great player.”

“He wants to win all“Scheffler coach Randy Smith said.” Whether it’s golf, pickleball, whatever. “

We saw Scheffler’s fire boiling on the surface in a new way on Sunday, when he caught Wanamaker and destroyed his Nike hat against the terrain with a rage. And we remembered his change from the greats before him when he left the 18th green seconds later to find a worshipering family waiting for his embrace. They cried almost by chance, as they were used to the routine, before Scheffler came into the note to collect the trophy.

As he walked to the gallery beyond the 18th hole and in his new life as a big three-time champion, Scheffler proposed his older son, Bennett and smiled. Scheffler was in a moment of almost torrential balance. On one shoulder, the providence of his competitive fire, the greatest achievement of his last life, lowered; And on the other hand, the person who embodied all that Scheffler took care of when the golf was finished.

As he walked, the smart audience knew that they were witnessing the secret of Scottie Scheffler’s greatness.

Not fire OR The family, but the ability to keep both on his shoulders immediately.

The truth turned out In the press room almost an hour later.

With Wanamaker on his right, Scheffler was making his usual dance of tap in front of the cameras. Now that he thought about it, his victory had been quite wonderful – and no, his growing proximity to the biggest players was sometimes something he would never think about.

But then a press reporter a question that Scheffler could not avoid.

Would you say you have competitive fire?

Scheffler stopped and sparked a million-watt smile.

“Uhhh … Yes”

It was a line of full truth, and everyone knew it, including the Scheffler family, who jumped into the corner of the room to see Scottie collect his victory.

They laughed as he delivered the line, and Scottie did.

The flame was lit up again in life, as everyone knew it would happen.