Scottie Scheffler gave one of the most fascinating press conferences about golf, fame, and success.
Scottie Scheffler’s Honest Remarks About Success
Scottie Scheffler just gave one of the best (and deepest) press conference answers ever heard. pic.twitter.com/SUIRKuLwgb
— Golf Digest (@GolfDigest) July 15, 2025
After winning a golf tournament as the world’s No. 1 golfer, what comes next?
That’s the existential question Scheffler wrestled with while speaking to the media on Tuesday ahead of the Open Championship.
“This is not a fulfilling life. It’s fulfilling from the sense of accomplishment, but it’s not fulfilling from a sense of the deepest places of your heart,” Scheffler said via Golf Digest. “There’s a lot of people that make it to what they thought was going to fulfill them in life, and you get there, you get to No. 1 in the world, and they’re like, what’s the point? What is the point? Why do I want to win this tournament so bad? That’s something that I wrestle with on a daily basis.”
Scheffler is considered the best golfer on the planet, having been No. 1 in the world for 112 consecutive weeks.
Scheffler has 16 PGA Tour wins since 2022, including two Masters and a PGA Championship. If Scheffler wins the 2025 Open Championship, he will be a U.S. Open away from the career Grand Slam.
Scheffler credits his ability to reset mentally after every tournament for his continued success. Because of the tour’s week-to-week nature, Scheffler knows these feelings of success are only temporary.
“Look at this week [The Open Championship], for example. What’s the best-case scenario? I win this golf tournament, and then I’m going to show up in Memphis [his next tournament], and it’s like, ‘Okay, listen, you won two majors this year; what are you going to do this week?’ That’s the question you’re going to get asked,” Scheffler explained. “If I come in second this week or if I finish dead last, no matter what happens, we’re always on to the next week. That’s one of the beautiful things about golf, and it’s also one of the frustrating things because you can have such great accomplishments, but the show goes on. That’s just how it is.”
Scheffler brought up a relevant example of how winning the Byron Nelson tournament, which is just outside of his residence in Dallas, only provided him with brief gratification.
“To win the Byron Nelson Championship at home [in May]—I literally worked my entire life to become good at golf to have an opportunity to win that tournament,” Scheffler explained. “You win it, you celebrate, you get to hug my family, my sister’s there—it’s such an amazing moment. Then it’s like, ‘Okay, what are we going to eat for dinner?’ Life goes on.”
Scottie Scheffler Still Loves Competing
"I love putting in the work. I love getting to practice. I love getting to live out my dreams. But at the end of the day, sometimes I just don't understand the point."
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Although Scheffler might be grappling with existential feelings, that doesn’t affect his competitive drive. Scheffler enters tournaments to win, not lose.
“It sucks. I hate it, I really do,” Scheffler said of losing. “We work so hard for such little moments. I’m kind of sicko. I love putting in the work, I love getting to practice. I love getting to live out my dreams. But at the end of the day, sometimes I just don’t understand the point.”
Scheffler will try to win his first Open Championship this week at Royal Portrush. Scheffler’s best finish in the Open was a T7 in 2024.
