Portrush, northern Ireland – per day Tiger Woods He won his first major, 28 years ago, and Ra, Greenside, in his father’s arms, he became a global superstar.
In the day Rory Mcilroy Completed Grand Slam career – three months ago in Augusta – he also became one.
Phil Mickelson He became a megastar, able to travel beyond the golf borders without a passport when he won the 2004 masters, after an Oh-Fer at Epic on his first 34 major.
Bryson Dechambeau joined the club on a July day nearly a year ago after playing a Golf with Tees Red with Donald Trump and Posting a 15-minute summary of the YouTube round, which gained 4.7 million views in a 24-hour period. The number is now crawling to 15 million.
Which brings us Scottie Scheffler -Barry and 29-year-old father, self-described The follower of Christ/Pro Golfer On his Instagram profile – British Open’s newest winner, the oldest and largest game championship. Now he has four degrees, and he reached there at the same time, a day, like Woods. He is, according to Mcilroy and others, playing the most dominant golf that the game has seen since the 1999-2001 roof Woods. And yet he is not likely to become a global sensation, an international superstar. There is a problem with him, in this era take-a-selfie. He lacks the chip who wants more and more fame. Moreover, he does not want it.
So for those of you playing Going global At home, you can find this useful study sheet:
Greg Norman? Yes.
Nick Faldo? Nr.
Seve Ballesteros? Yes.
Bernhard Langer? Nr.
Arnold Palmer? Yes.
Jack Nicklaus? Nr.
Ben Hogan? Yes.
Byron Nelson? Nr.
Gary Player? Yes.
Billy Casper? Nr.
Bobby Jones? Yes.
Francis oses? Nr.
And, once again with feeling:
Tiger-Phil-Sorry-Bryson?
Yes, yes, yes, yes.
Scottie?
A shock no.
When Dechambeau made a bird in the last holes on Sunday for a 64 closure, he milky fans of the last holes in the ancestors for everything he could get, like a child on the third and last night of spring music. He had dechambeau, raising his hands up in joy, then shaking every hand lying on his way to go out. Was it crazy above? Of course! Was it a pleasure? Yes, that too.
Dechambeau then met with reporters, with commitment. When a R&D media official was ready to complete the session, Dechambeau offered a magician, “That’s okay.” We went to us, just like him.
One reporter said the audience on YouTube and Dechambeau suggested that he had overcome golf. Can Scheffler ever imagine doing something similar?
Ah, no.
“I think he is a family man,” Dechambeau said. “He wants this to be the most important thing for him. I have full respect for that. For Scottie, I think it’s more important to take care of his family. He has done a great and extraordinary job to balance both, being the best golf in the world and being a family man.”
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About three hours later, Scheffler came to the 18th green, with a four-stroke lead. He accepted the polite applause by raising his hat to the shoulder height. He then calmly made a two -putt vanguard Complete the 153rd championship open. As Xander Schauffle did last year, Scheffler won the PGA and British Open championship in the same year. It was all the ho-hum of the border line.
And then Scheffler looked to his right, without his one -year -old son, Bennett, dragging on to him and threw his hat up into the air, just as Arnold did with his visor when he won the 1960 masters. Scheffler raised Bennett and insulted him as so many open winners.
In a minute, you can see the Texan-Way-of New shirt make the transition from Scottie Scheffler, professional golf player, at Scottie Scheffler, husband, father, boy. Superman at Clark Kent. All the time, you can see its value system. You can see that Dechambeau’s penetration, for the first time the family, was completely and completely accurate.
Scheffler’s father, another Scott, put his way into green to attract that hat. The father then turned into a small circle with his wife, his bride and several others. He spoke, in the measured tones, about the daily directions of the family made in pursuit of the new golf. “I always told him. It was everything for the trip,” the father said. He was not lecturing, just remembering. “If you fly, you miss what is in the middle.”
Scottie Scheffler does not swing golf clubs with the greatness that Tiger Woods made. He does not have the rapid ingenuity and verbal intensity that Phil Mickelson often displayed. He does not have the rolling shoulders, look at a walk that Mcilroy has. He certainly does not use social media to entertain millions of people, as Dechambeau does. No one would call it charismatic.
There is no evidence that he is seeking increasingly greater wealth by accepting any agreement that comes on his way. (The two most prominent Scheffler corporate agreements are Nike and Tayormade.) He is not even following titles. He is simply trying to fulfill his childhood dream of playing professional golf, as the models of his boyhood role in Texas, Justin Leonard and Harrison Frazer did. He saw them dressed in pants while playing golf on TV, so he did the same in his small events, even when he was 100 degrees in the summer of Texas.
The man is built differently. The upper part of his order of filling is faith, family, golf. He is happy to play for the money these tours are offering. He had no interest in following a larger day Liv Payday. He is not looking for more fame. He is not at the most bigger wheel. For a 29-year-old in 2025, he is really a more unusual person.
“I’ve said it for a long time: Golf is not how I identify myself,” Scheffler said at a Sunday press conference. “I don’t identify myself by winning tours, following trophies, being famous or whatever else. There are two chipotles in which I eat in, at home. In fact, not really two. There is a right where I grew up, a kind near SMU campus. If I would go to that chipotle and try to eat in me. No one knows me, never. “
Michael Bamberger
Golf.com contributor
Michael Bamberger writes for Golf Magazine and Golf.com. Before that he spent nearly 23 years as an elderly writer for Sports Illustrated. After the college, he worked as a reporter of the newspaper, first for (Martha’s) Vineyard newspaper, later Philadelphia Inquirer. He wrote a variety of books for golf and other subjects, the most recent of which is Tiger Woods’ second life. His magazine’s work is presented in numerous editions of the best American sports writing. He holds an American patent on E-CLUB, a Golf of Service Club. In 2016, he was awarded the Donald Ross award from the American Society of Golf Course Architects, the highest honor of the organization.

