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Scottie Scheffler Makes Personal Confession Ahead of 2025 Open Championship
Scottie Scheffler Makes Personal Confession Ahead of 2025 Open Championship originally appeared on Athlon Sports. The Open Championship — the fourth and final major of the PGA Tour season — is set to begin Thursday at Royal Portrush in Northern Ireland, marking its first return to the venue since 2019. Advertisement As players begin arriving throughout the week, world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler spoke to the media Tuesday, looking to capture his first Open Championship title. Scheffler has put together another dominant campaign in 2025 and continues to hold the No. 1 ranking — a spot he's now occupied for well over a year. But during his press conference, he was asked a seemingly simple question that prompted a deep, introspective response. "What would be the longest you've ever celebrated something, and what was your most crushing loss?" a reporter asked. Instead of listing career highlights or regrets, Scheffler used the moment to open up. Advertisement "I think it's kind of funny," he began. "I think I said something after the Byron [Nelson] this year — which I won in a playoff in May — about how it feels like you work your whole life to celebrate winning a tournament for just a few minutes. That kind of euphoric feeling only lasts a few minutes. "To win the Byron Nelson at home, I literally worked my entire life to become good at golf, to have an opportunity to win that tournament. And you win it, you celebrate, you get to hug your family — my sister was there — it's such an amazing moment. And then it's like, 'OK… what are we going to eat for dinner?'' But Scheffler didn't stop there. His response quickly turned into something more personal. "This is not a fulfilling life. It's fulfilling from a sense of accomplishment, but it's not fulfilling from the deepest places of your heart. Advertisement "There are a lot of people who make it to what they thought was going to fulfill them in life, and then they get there and ask, 'What's the point?' You get to No. 1 in the world and suddenly wonder — why do I want this so badly? "That's something I wrestle with on a daily basis. Like showing up at the Masters every year — why do I want to win this golf tournament so badly? Why do I want to win the Open Championship so badly?' "I don't know," he added, "because if I win, it's going to be awesome for two minutes." Related: Tiger Woods Sends Strong Message Ahead of 2025 Open Championship This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports on Jul 15, 2025, where it first appeared.
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British Open 2025: Scottie Scheffler reckons with the psychological cost of victory
Tiger Woods didn't just rewrite the golf record book. He rewrote sports psychology too, he and Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan and every other maniacally driven, winning-is-everything athlete who placed their sport above everything else in their life. Now comes Scottie Scheffler, who's very much like Tiger in the record books but so very different from him in terms of psychological makeup. Where Woods would have shoved aside his own mother to win another tournament, Scheffler has a more balanced — and, let's be honest, healthy — view on life, golf and winning. Advertisement 'It feels like you work your whole life to celebrate winning a tournament for like a few minutes,' Scheffler said Tuesday morning prior to The Open Championship, which begins Thursday at Royal Portrush. 'It only lasts a few minutes, that kind of euphoric feeling.' He pinpointed his victory at the Byron Nelson earlier this year as an example: 'To win the Byron Nelson Championship at home, I literally worked my entire life to become good at golf to have an opportunity to win that tournament. You win it, you celebrate, 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.' Scheffler nailed the essence and the conflict at the heart of golf, or sports in general: there's a huge difference between winning, and fulfillment. 'Is it great to be able to win tournaments and to accomplish the things I have in the game of golf? Yeah, it brings tears to my eyes just to think about because I've literally worked my entire life to be good at this sport,' he said. 'To have that kind of sense of accomplishment, I think, is a pretty cool feeling. To get to live out your dreams is very special, but at the end of the day, I'm not out here to inspire the next generation of golfers. I'm not out here to inspire someone to be the best player in the world because what's the point? 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.' Advertisement And then we get to the Tiger-Kobe-MJ conundrum: What happens when you've achieved everything in your life that you want, and it's not enough. 'There's a lot of people that make it to what they thought was going to fulfill them in life,' Scheffler said, 'and you get there, you get to No. 1 in the world, and they're like, 'What's the point?'' (For what it's worth, this appears to be what's troubling Rory McIlroy right now in the wake of his epic, career-capping Masters victory.) Scheffler, to his credit, appears to have made peace with the fact that he simultaneously wants to win and knows it won't satisfy him: 'That's something that I wrestle with on a daily basis,' he said. 'It's like showing up at the Masters every year; it's like, why do I want to win this golf tournament so badly? Why do I want to win The Open Championship so badly? I don't know because, if I win, it's going to be awesome for two minutes. Then we're going to get to the next week: 'Hey, you won two majors this year; how important is it for you to win the FedExCup playoffs?' And we're back here again.' What's salvaged Scheffler? According to him, family. 'I'm blessed to be able to come out here and play golf, but if my golf ever started affecting my home life or it ever affected the relationship I have with my wife or my son, that's going to be the last day that I play out here for a living,' he said. 'This is not the be all, end all. This is not the most important thing in my life. That's why I wrestle with, why is this so important to me? Because I'd much rather be a great father than I would be a great golfer. At the end of the day, that's what's more important to me.' Can you even imagine prime Tiger or prime Kobe saying that? Both seemed to work their way around to that philosophy once their most competitive playing days were done, but not while they were in the heart of their careers. Advertisement Scheffler's entire answer is well worth watching in full: 'Playing professional sports is a really weird thing to do,' he said. 'It really is. Just because we put in so much effort, we work so hard for something that's so fleeting. It really is. The feeling of winning just doesn't last that long.' Fortunately for Scheffler, he gets more opportunities than most to enjoy those fleeting moments of victory.
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Two former Illini open up play at John Deere Classic
Two former Illini open up play at John Deere Classic SILVIS, Ill. (WCIA) — Brian Campbell and Nick Hardy opened up day one of competition at TPC Deere Run. Campbell charged up into a tie for eighth, going -6 for round one. He had zero bogeys and six birdies for his opening round. Advertisement Hardy responded with a pair of birdies after making the turn to the front nine, but a bogey on hole nine gave him a -1 for his scorecard after round one. Campbell tees off at 7:51 a.m. on hole 10 for his second round on Friday, while Hardy tees off on hole one at 7:18 a.m. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to
