Scottie Scheffler has already earned more than $ 90 million in the Golf Course and much more, but if we know anything about the world no. 1, is that he is a man of simple tastes.
He plays Golf because he loves competition and grinding to get better and, well, because he is really good at him. He likes his Chip and his routine. He appreciates his faith and his family. He is also not one, we have learned, to sprinkle anything very delightful.
Although apparently there is at least A thing he will pay for.
Thursday at Championship FedEx St. JewishFresh from an open 67 round, Scheffler was asked if he was prejudiced. “A little,” he said, adding that he had the same cover cover for the last four years and often uses the same divotine and ball marker every round.
He even likes the Divot tool so much that it went in great length – ebay! – to buy a replacement when he lost the original. But this was not just any divotine tool.
“Fromes from Cypress Point,” said Scheffler. “But I don’t use it because it’s from Cypress. Judah is just the right size and it’s metal, so they really don’t make those types of divotine tools anymore, so I found one there and I stuck with it.
“I bought it in the store,” he continued. “I bought last year or maybe two years ago, and I lost it at one point, and literally I couldn’t find another divot tool like him. Then I went to Ebay, I found a Cypress ball marker, paid as $ 50. Then I returned this year, and they were a little cheaper in the country, so I got an extra couple.”
Any particular, deep reason that this one so much likes this?
“Only the habit. There’s no reason for her. I like it,” he said. “Sizes good size. There are in it. I think it’s very good.”
And if you are wondering, yes, someone there sent a ball marker directly Scottie Scheffler, who said he used his real name when he bought.
“He sent me and wrote a small note and everything,” Scheffler said. “He was a good guy.”
In the non-Top-tracking news, Scheffler 67 on Thursday set it five after the first round lead set by Akshay Bhatia, who fired 62. Scheffler’s second round is already developing, though the current FedEx Cup leader will have no problem progressing to next week’s BMW championship.
“Today was a good day,” he said. “I did some solid things. I felt like I was close to playing a really great round, but ended with a strong round. Overall a good start.”
