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Something astir nan Open Championship seems to bring retired nan philosopher successful Scottie Scheffler. Last twelvemonth nan world’s champion golfer questioned nan meaning of life before claiming his 4th awesome title. This year, though, it was his bequest that was much connected his mind.
Scheffler was successful an ebullient mood, contempt missing his first trim successful 79 tournaments astatine nan Scottish Open past week. So erstwhile talk turned to his comments astatine Portrush – erstwhile he famously asked ‘What is nan constituent of it all?’ – he couldn’t thief but grin erstwhile he recovered himself saying “at nan extremity of nan time I americium going to unrecorded my life and it’s going to end” this clip around.
“Is that going to beryllium a quote aft past year’s ‘what’s nan point?’ Scheffler queried. “This twelvemonth we’re each going to die.”
Once nan laughs had subsided, Scheffler made a much superior constituent astir why he didn’t really attraction astir his bequest – aliases really galore titles he could win.
“I person ne'er erstwhile thought astir really I’m going to beryllium remembered,” he said. “To me, it genuinely doesn’t matter from a consciousness of accomplishment. Like erstwhile I die, ‘hey, Scottie won 4 fields and 20 tournaments and he won this overmuch money’. That has zero effect connected me.
“History to maine isn’t that important,” he added. “I don’t needfully want to beryllium remembered for winning nan tournaments that I won. I’d overmuch alternatively beryllium remembered for nan measurement that I did it: doing things nan correct way, treating group nan correct way.”
“Some of my champion friends successful nan world I met done playing golf. When I was young, I took myself a spot excessively seriously. I’ve gotten amended arsenic I’ve gotten older of letting nan title beryllium nan competition, and erstwhile you’re done, return your chapeau disconnected and shingle hands and we’re connected to nan adjacent week. History for maine has ne'er been nan astir important thing.”
And while Scheffler has sometimes trim a disappointment fig connected nan people this season, having wn only 1 event, he insists his mind is astatine bid arsenic he intends to clasp nan Claret Jug.
“I conjecture nan constituent for maine was figuring retired your ‘why’,” he explained. “Why americium I doing this? Why do I want to triumph this tourney truthful badly? Why do I take to play this athletics for a living? I deliberation that’s erstwhile I’m astatine bid nan most.”
Scheffler’s comments were echoed by Rory McIlroy erstwhile he was asked really he wanted to beryllium remembered successful 100 years’ time.
“I don’t really care,” came nan reply. “I would for illustration to deliberation that nan group that emotion and attraction astir maine deliberation a definite measurement of me, but yeah, I’ll beryllium agelong gone. I’ll beryllium dead.
“I don’t deliberation I’ll beryllium seeing what group opportunity astir me,” he added. “I’ll beryllium six feet under. I don’t deliberation I’ll beryllium a ghost. I don’t deliberation I’ll be, you know, for illustration – yeah, I don’t care.”
McIlroy is nan 2nd favourite to triumph his seventh awesome title but he insisted that he nary longer had a one-track mind erstwhile it came to his legacy.
“I deliberation it would beryllium a beautiful 11fulfilling pursuit if you’re conscionable chasing records and chasing results,” he added. “You person to bask nan process. You person to bask nan travel to get there. I’ve learned that nan difficult measurement astatine times by chasing results and chasing records excessively much.”
