‘What is the goal?’ Scottie Scheffler gets existential in fascinating oppressor

If you think too much about it, being very, very good for everything is a strange strange, singular experience. Scottie Scheffler is very, very good at Golf. He too is thinking a lot about that. This is a fascinating combination.

The result of all Scheffler’s victory and thinking is that on Tuesday he gave us the latest entry into a very specific genre: “Excellent athlete asking himself what everything is.” You can remember a Tom Brady winner of Super Bowl to think What the mountain was left to climb. “There should be more than that …” What about Michael Phelps, Golden Middle Car, wounddoing what comes next? “We dreamed of the biggest dream we could dream of and got there. What do we do now?” Even Rory Mcilroy, earlier this week, explanated Fighting Malay after Master: “I think everyone can see over the past two months how I fought with this – I’ve done something I told everyone I wanted to do … “ Scheffler is certainly not at the Michael Jordan level play Minor League Baseball, As Tiger Woods DRILL with the seals of the Navy. But if any press conference is an attempt to better understand what it is like to be Scottie Scheffler, World no. 1, then Tuesday may have been our most successful effort.

Scheffler’s deep thinking began when asked why He is able to treat life as world no. 1 When others have fought in the same position. He explained that he has been able to succeed because he works to restore each week, an essential attribute in a sport where both success and failure are extremely temporary. But the quick nature of the game plays the tricks for it as well.

“Look this week, for example,” Scheffler said, referring to Open. “What is the best case scenario? I win this golf tour, and then I will appear (on his next tour) in Memfis, and it’s like, ‘well, listen, you won two degrees this year; what will you do this week?” This is the question you will ask.

“If I come to second place this week or if I finish the last dead, no matter what happens, we’re always in the next week. This is one of the beautiful things for golf, and it’s also one of the disappointing things because you can have such great achievements, but the show is as it is.”

The show goes on. This has always been true in the tournament, which plays the tour most of the weeks of the year. The tour ends on Sunday, and preparing for the next week’s event starts on Monday. Success is fast in every sport but especially this; Consider they don’t play a NFL game for months after the Super Bowl nor a baseball game for months after the world series but they I DO Play a tour of the week after the masters, and the next week after that, and the other, and the other, and the other.

Later in the session, another reporter returned to that topic, and this is when Scheffler really got existential, using a victory in his hometown tour as an example:

“It only takes a few minutes, that kind of euphoric feeling,” he said. “To win the Byron Nelson Championship at home (in May) – I literally worked my whole life to do well in golf to have an opportunity to win that tournament. You win it, you celebrate, get to hug my family, my sister there is such an amazing moment. Then it’s like, what will we eat for dinner? ‘ Life goes on.

This is not to say that Scheffler does not like his lifestyle; He went out of his way to emphasize how much he loves golf, how much he wants and how much he loves the improvement process. But he added a warning word:

“This is not a fulfilling life. It is being fulfilled by the feeling of achievement, but it is not fulfilled by a feeling of the deepest places of your heart,” he said. “There are a lot of people who do it in what they thought they would meet them in life, and you get there, you go to No. 1 in the world, and they’re like what is the goal? Why do you want to win this tour so bad? That’s something I can with which I can.”

It is important to note that Scheffler was cheerful and of good nature in everyone; This seemed more of a point of annoyance and curiosity than any kind of existential spiral. Scheffler seems to realize that he loves golf not because he likes to own trophies, but because he likes the way to get there.

“I’m a sick kind; I like to work. I like to go into practice. I like to live out of my dreams. But at the end of the day, sometimes I just don’t understand the point,” he said.

Then he stopped.

“I don’t know if I have any meaning or not,” he continued. “I like to be able to play this game for a living. One of the greatest joys of my life, but it fulfills the deepest desires and desires of my heart? Absolutely not.”

Then Scheffler really reached the heart of the matter, which is the best in the world with everything – especially when it is a game – it’s a special existence.

“Playing professional sports is a really strange thing to do. In fact it is. Just because we make so much effort, we work so hard for something that is so fast,” Scheffler said.

After all, Scheffler cares heavily that he wins – for loss, said Scheffler, “this inhales” and “I hate it” – and he delights him from doing so.

“When I sit down at the end of the year and try to reflect on things, like, having that feeling of winning the Masters Tour, from winning the PGA championship, I have a deep sense of gratitude and appreciation for it,” he said. “But I think what I’m trying to say is that this is not the place to seek your pleasure.

“As I said, it’s literally one of the most fun things I can do in my whole life. I want to be able to go out here and compete, but at the end of the day, it’s not what pleases me, if that makes sense.”

And with that, the moderator completed the press conference.

“That was interesting,” he said. He was right. And Scheffler was out to practice.

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