It was another dominant showing from Scottie Scheffler as he lifted the Claret Jug at Royal Portrush on Sunday, strolling to his second major victory of 2025 and the fourth of his career.
It was a fascinating week to follow the World No.1 – from his five minute monologue on his priorities in life earlier in the week to watching him on the course battle the Dunluce Links, the elements and an atmosphere from a crowd that clearly did not want him to win due to the presence of home favorite Rory McIlroy on the leaderboard.
Scottie spoke to us in the media tent following his dominant win, but these were the five main takeaways I took from his press conference.
He called his win the “best performance mentally” of his career
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Considering how good he has been up to this point, is Scottie suggesting he hasn’t even reached the top of his game yet?
“It’s taken a lot of work – not only a lot of work, but it takes a lot of patience. It’s a high level of focus over 72 holes of a tournament. This was one of my best performances mentally” he told media in his post-tournament presser.
“To only have one double bogey, really only one over par hole in the last 36 holes of a major championship, that’s how you’re able to win these tournaments.”
For as much as the critics cite Scottie’s lack of charisma on the course, there is a reason he’s so cold out there. Following him Saturday and Sunday, there was little to no emotion other than when an important putt dropped which sometimes meant a fist pump followed. There were little to no waves to the crowd, tips of the hat or recognition of crowd support at Royal Portrush. Why? Because he was so unbelievably locked in, with tunnel vision focus on one thing – winning.
If his mental game is improving, that makes him an even scarier prospect for the rest of his competition, if that was even possible.
Tiger comparisons are silly
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Humble as always, Scheffler branded comparisons to he and Tiger Woods as “silly”.
“Tiger won, what, 15 majors? This is my fourth. I just got one-fourth of the way there. I think Tiger stands alone in the game of golf,” he said.
“I’m not motivated by winning championships. I don’t look at the beginning of the year and just say, hey, I want to win X amount of…
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