Scottie Scheffler’s Masters, a religiously supported family affair

scottie scheffler It takes two months (57 days to be more exact) of vertigo. He has won four contests and, among them, the Masters. He is the second player in history to win 4 tournaments, including a Grand Slam and a World Cup. The other one? Tiger Woods: in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008. Eight weeks to shoot him at Number 1 in the world. This is going to be a good time.

Arrived at Augusta National as the leader of the newly released ranks, which included pressure, and the Green Jacket in his third participation. He tied for 19th in 2020 and 18th ex aequo in 2021. He debuted in first position in the world rankings and won the Masters, just like they did before. Ian Woosnam (1991), Fred Couples (1992), Tiger Woods (2001 and 2002), and Dustin Johnson (2020).

On Sunday morning he woke up crying like a child. He didn’t really know what was happening to him. There are five hours left to go out and play at the turn of his life, and one that will surely change his life, and all the tension of the past three days has come to the surface.

“I was so stressed. I didn’t know what to do. I was sitting there telling Meredith (her husband) that I thought she wasn’t ready for this yet. I’m not ready, I’m telling her, I’m not that. T feel ready for this kind of thing. I felt overwhelmed. ” , explained the champion in his media appearance wearing the Green Jacket on his shoulder.

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It was his wife, who in his time, once he reached No. 1, asked her to take the bag out of the trash and Scottie said how she was asked to do that when she became No. (funny anecdote revealed by his caddy, ted scott), took the bull by the horns. He did this by using the deep religious faith they share. “He said to me, ‘Who are you to say you’re not ready? Who am I to say I know what’s best for my life? And what we talked about was that God is in control and the Lord is leading me. And if today is my time, it’s my time. And if not, then I’ll hit 82 shots. It was a long morning. Very long, “Schffler said.

“I dreamed of having the opportunity to play this golf tournament. In fact, I was in tears the first time I received the invitation in the mail (2020). We were lucky to play here at the University and I love it. Place. I love it. this golf course.If you pick a golf tournament to win, this is the tournament I want to win.You don’t know how many chances that way, with a five-shot lead on Friday, you’ll have.I don’t want to waste it, Scheffler added. .

Scheffler confessed that he did not regain total peace until he reached the field. I feel really peaceful when I’m on the golf course. I think the hardest part of this process is when you’re not on the golf course. When I hit the ball on the 1st tee and signed my first pair of days, I finally became comfortable, ”he said.

Her children are teasing her

Scheffler didn’t care that his friends laughed at him when they were little. “I wore pants to the Royal Oaks because I wanted to play golf on the PGA Tour. I wore pants and a collared shirt to school and they laughed at me, just right. I wish I was always here, and I didn’t expect it. I didn’t. … you know I don’t expect to sit where I am right now.You don’t expect things to come to you.Just try to do all you can with the hand given to you.I don’t think I will. that’s great in golf, so I just kept practicing and trying, and that’s what I’m going to keep going, ”Scottie said.

Scheffler confessed that God was the most important thing in his life. “I’ll say yes. We don’t control our lives. My faith affects every aspect of my life, not just what’s going on on the golf course. The Lord has given me a skill and I’m trying to use it for His glory. “Outside of that, I’m just here trying to do my best,” he said.

He also admitted that he was a follower of another God, this one of rock music: the ‘Boss’ Bruce Springsteen. but Scottie continued to appeal to religion as his major support in golf. “It’s all because of my faith. The reason I play golf is because I try to give glory to God and everything he has done in my life. So for me, my identity is not marked by a golf. card.I won this golf tournament.now or if I lose and don’t win another golf tournament my husband will still love me I’m still the person Jesus loves us and nothing will change all I’m trying to do is glorify God. Life is not about a golf score. “

The Scheffler clan, the family, was also a bulwark in his life. Her parents Scott and Diane, and her siblings Callie, Molly and Sara (she is in Portugal). In upstate New Jersey, Scheffler’s children started golf. They moved to Dallas when Diane switched law firms as COO. They quickly decided to become members of the Royal Oaks Country Club largely because it meant Scott Scheffler could support all four children in one place. Scott acted as the family man while Diane worked. He doesn’t see it as something revolutionary or weird or unusual. “It’s just what you do as a parent for your kids,” Scott Scheffler said, tears streaming down his eyes. “You did for your children what you know. I did for them all. They gave us great joy. He did all the hard work, not me. I just raised him and tried to be a good father to the best of my ability. can. “

Maybe, but have to take ‘Team Scheffler’ to all those sporting events. Junior golf tournaments. High school basketball skills. The list seems endless. The fact Dad was driving. “Luckily for me, I grew up with three sisters and my dad was there, and he did a great job raising us,” the Masters champion muttered.

Scottie is not the only athlete in the family. Callie Scheffler played at Texas A&M and caddy for Scottie when he qualified for the 2016 US Open in Oakmont as a rookie (missed the cut), and Molly and Sara are also golfers. Though Scott Scheffler admitted with a laugh, “The Schefflers have their problems, but they’re good people. Scottie’s a nice young guy. He’s our son and Meredith’s husband and now I think he’s the best golfer in the world. . ”

The family relationship goes beyond Scheffler’s ‘team’. Rick Smith worked with Scottie for many years, and Rick’s son Blake was his Scheffler agent. Logically there’s also Ted Scott, the caddy who already knows what to win at the Masters because he carried the bag to Bubba Watson. Rick was at Scheffler’s house Saturday night, trying to calm him down as he held the three-shot lead into Sunday. They worked on the ball position. And in his will, watching Instagram videos in an effort to keep things normal. Although Scheffler admitted his stomach hurt over the weekend and he cried on Sunday morning because of the pressure, he suffered little on the last lap.

In early February, Scheffler was still looking for his first PGA Tour success. In early April, he was in the kind of career he couldn’t imagine as he put on North Jersey nights. “Now it’s public, which is pretty scary,” Scott Scheffler said. The only child of Scott and Diane Scheffler is aware that he barely made the journey from Bergen Community College to Augusta National alone. “They weren’t perfect parents, obviously, but to me, they did their best at all times, and I love them for it. You know, I can’t speak to how hard they’ve worked for us. I can ‘ t put it into words, really. ” I can’t “, ends the new Green Jacket.