Not a yes. Not a no. Which is about spot on for Scottie Scheffler<\/a>, your Open Championship<\/a> winner and now a four-time major winner. The question above, though, begs another question to chew on today:<\/p>\n Is Scheffler a transcendalist, period, at this point?<\/p>\n To answer it, perhaps turn to previous transcendentalists. Tiger<\/a>? He was mythical before he turned pro, mythical for a stretch as a pro, and maybe even more mythical now. He achieved things no one had ever achieved before, by doing things no one had ever done before. Shots over, under or around trouble. Shots while in trouble. Shots through his opponents\u2019 souls. You probably have a moment or 10 in mind. MJ was like that. And Brady. They kept coming too.\u00a0<\/p>\n They were a form of escapism. For the length of a round or a game, we could tune away from the routine to witness ridiculousness.<\/p>\n So what about Scheffler, then? He\u2019s flawless, outside of a funky delivery and an occasional flaky putter. He\u2019s an inextinguishable flame \u2014\u00a0who sucks the oxygen out of everyone else. And all of this fails to mention his off-the-course life, which he\u2019ll tell you trumps anything from his on-course one. (We\u2019ll get to all of that shortly.)\u00a0<\/p>\n But, again, does that transcend?<\/p>\n I think it\u2019s how you define it. Or maybe Scheffler is changing your definition. Isn\u2019t how he goes about his business the way you\u2019d want to? Isn\u2019t that inspirational?\u00a0<\/p>\n Isn\u2019t that more real?<\/p>\n Scottie Scheffler\u2019s most revealing Open moment came after he\u2019d won<\/a> As we look back at the Open Championship week that was, let\u2019s make that observation No. 1 then. We\u2019ll try for 49 more, and we\u2019ll be fueled by the anticipation of drinking a Guinness, which will be had as soon as the keyboarding concludes.<\/p>\n 2. I danced around it there, but Scheffler is a bit boring \u2014 but a bit boring is what you want in golf. Ask any pro. Three-hundred-yard drive down the middle, iron to 8 feet, putt, rinse and repeat.\u00a0<\/p>\n 3. One of Scheffler\u2019s issues is he\u2019s doing something they tell you never to do, though by no fault of his own:<\/p>\n He\u2019s following a superstar in the public eye.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Every stroke, tournament and word are measured against Woods \u2014 who entered pro golf at a time mostly absent of megastars.\u00a0<\/p>\n 4. That said, I wonder that whatever Scheffler accomplishes might get somewhat lost, that if he goes on to win, say, seven majors, the accomplishment is diminished somehow.<\/p>\n Which would be silly.\u00a0<\/p>\n 5. We do seem always in a rush to crown the \u201cnext,\u201d aren\u2019t we?\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n 6. So, how many majors does Scheffler win? Can he win 11 (!) more to catch Woods? Can he win 14 (!) more to catch Jack Nicklaus<\/a>? At this pace, right here, right now, that seems doable.\u00a0<\/p>\n Which we would\u2019ve also said about a decade ago with Rory McIlroy<\/a>. And with Jordan Spieth<\/a>. And five years ago with Brooks Koepka<\/a>. Funny things can happen because golf is a funny game.\u00a0<\/p>\n But if you\u2019ve come this far looking for a number, let\u2019s put it at 8.5.\u00a0<\/p>\n 7. So about The Quote<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n If you missed it, it came Tuesday from Scheffler, after the Associated Press\u2019 Doug Ferguson asked the following question:<\/p>\n You talk about the show goes on, which it does. What would be the longest you\u2019ve ever celebrated something? What was the most crushing loss or the time it took to get over one?<\/p>\n Scheffler\u2019s response is below<\/a>:<\/p>\n Afterward, seemingly everyone, from the players to those who watch the players, weighed in, and the subject followed Scheffler \u2014 all the way until Sunday, when it was brought up again, and the exchange is below<\/a>:<\/p>\n From a kid in Texas wearing pants in the summer\u2026 to Champion Golfer of the Year.<\/p>\n Scottie Scheffler addresses the viral moment from earlier this week and puts his Open Championship win into powerful perspective. pic.twitter.com\/3PPFBizmu8<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 GOLF.com (@GOLF_com) July 20, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n So what\u2019s the takeaway?<\/p>\n You don\u2019t hear such admissions from athletes, so it\u2019s jarring. We\u2019re conditioned to watching those who desire to conquer all \u2014 though there\u2019s no such thing. For a golfer, there\u2019s always another tournament. For a doctor, there\u2019s always another patient. For a writer, there\u2019s always another story. So cherish the victories. Cherish that you made your fans cheer. And cherish getting a chance to try again.\u00a0<\/p>\n And then go home. To use some of Scheffler\u2019s words, go fill the deepest wants and desires of your heart, whatever that may look like.<\/p>\n But really, if Scheffler\u2019s figured out the ever-confounding issue of proper work-life balance, watch out.\u00a0<\/p>\n That 8.5 number listed above will be considered very low.\u00a0<\/p>\n 8. In regards to Scheffler\u2019s comment on Tuesday (the first video above), I thought Padraig Harrington added some good thoughts in response in the video below<\/a>:<\/p>\n 9. In regards to Scheffler\u2019s comment on Sunday (the second video above), I wonder what his Chipotle order is.\u00a0<\/p>\n In his honor, I ate there on Sunday night. (I had a bowl with chicken, white rice, black beans, mild salsa, cheese and guac, if you\u2019re wondering.)<\/p>\n 10. What would Scheffler have done this year without the hand injury<\/a>?<\/p>\n 11. This Scheffler moment below<\/a> was, well something.\u00a0<\/p>\n 12. Let\u2019s talk about some other players, and we\u2019ll go down the leaderboard.\u00a0<\/p>\n Harris English<\/a> wins an Open at some point. His mentality is built for links golf.\u00a0<\/p>\n 13. Chris Gotterup<\/a> wins an Open at some point. His game is built for links golf.<\/p>\n 14. Matt Fitzpatrick<\/a> breaks the Englishman drought at some point. No one from England has won an Open since 1992.\u00a0<\/p>\n 15. Haotong Li<\/a> will make some headlines when he reaches the PGA Tour. He\u2019s electric.\u00a0<\/p>\n 16. Break time! Let\u2019s talk about that dateline at the start of this article. I didn\u2019t travel out for the Open, but before this story publishes, a Guinness<\/a> will be had in the city where I live, New York. After careful research, I\u2019m going to the Long Hall Pub & Grocery<\/a>, which most every well-intentioned reviewer says has the best Guinness in town.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n 17. Maybe it\u2019s his accent, maybe it\u2019s the way he seems to reflect before he speaks, but I think Robert MacIntyre<\/a> is turning into one of my favorite interviews in golf.\u00a0<\/p>\n This was good (the reporter\u2019s questions are in italics):<\/p>\n What\u2019s your mental look like? You\u2019re on your own?<\/p>\n \u201cI can do whatever I want for an hour,\u201d MacIntyre said. \u201cJust anything I want. You can break things. You can literally do whatever I want for an hour. After that hour is gone, my job\u2019s done. For an hour and a half before my round, two hours before my round, I\u2019m preparing, so nobody gets in my way. It\u2019s warmup, stretching, gym work, all of that. So there\u2019s a five-, six-, seven-, eight-hour window that I\u2019m working.<\/p>\n \u201cIf you have a bad day at work, you\u2019re going to be annoyed. It happens more often than not for me as well. It\u2019s just about once that\u2019s gone, it\u2019s been difficult in the past for me to reset, but nowadays, there\u2019s so many golf tournaments and you don\u2019t know what\u2019s coming the next week.\u201d<\/p>\n That fire is what can be the difference in making you feel ready to win a major? That\u2019s what you need?<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m fiery on the golf course when I\u2019m in tournament rounds,\u201d MacIntyre said. \u201cI\u2019ll drop, I was going to say the odd, but a few bad words in there. I\u2019ll hit the bag. I\u2019ll say some harsh things, but that\u2019s what gets me going.<\/p>\n \u201cIf I walk around and I\u2019m all happy I just made a double bogey or people are clapping, thanks very much, that\u2019s not me. I\u2019m needing to smash something up. I want to rip a glove. I do something to get that anger out. It\u2019s better out than in for me. Some people, it\u2019s better holding it, but for me, it\u2019s get it out and then just do not let it affect the next shot. Simple.\u201d<\/p>\n 18. The video below<\/a> was stunning, though.\u00a0<\/p>\n 19. Xander Schauffele<\/a> seems nearly back from the rib injury that shelved him earlier in the season.\u00a0<\/p>\n 20. This was good from Schauffele, who, after revealing that he didn\u2019t know where his trophies were, was asked why he didn\u2019t:<\/p>\n \u201cWhat am I going to do with it? I don\u2019t really invite people over to my house. Am I just going to go look at it myself? That\u2019s the way I feel about it. I don\u2019t want to walk into a trophy room like, \u2018Look how great I am.\u2019 I was just raised to think that way, and it\u2019s kind of stuck. I really don\u2019t sit at home, you know what I mean?<\/p>\n \u201cMy wife hung up some pictures of me in my gym of me winning the Olympic medal, and she put it so high up I can\u2019t reach it. I have to get a ladder now, and it bothers me,\u201d Schauffele said. \u201cLike if anything, put up like me in a Masters jacket, like that would p*ss me off, you know what I mean? Something like that is more motivating than like, all right, that\u2019s not great. I don\u2019t want to look at that.\u201d<\/p>\n 21. McIlroy\u2019s Saturday charge<\/a> was great theater.\u00a0<\/p>\n 22. McIlroy\u2019s second-ball trick<\/a> on Saturday was great magic.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n 23. If we\u2019re going to wait 260-whatever days until the next men\u2019s golf major, let\u2019s make sure we get Scheffler and McIlroy in Sunday singles at the Ryder Cup.\u00a0<\/p>\n 24. Speaking of, I\u2019m not sure golf has ever seen a bigger production than what DeChambeau will produce at the Ryder Cup. \u201cReinvented\u201d DeChambeau will be at full \u201creinvented\u201d DeChambeau powers at Bethpage.\u00a0<\/p>\n 25. Has he figured out links golf? Let\u2019s wait to make that call, though his 65-68-64 run over the weekend impressed.<\/p>\n 26. So what about the ball<\/a> he says he\u2019s working on? Stay tuned.\u00a0<\/p>\n But I thought the video below<\/a> was interesting.\u00a0<\/p>\n 27. I really thought this was Tommy Fleetwood\u2019s<\/a> week.\u00a0<\/p>\n I\u2019ll very likely say that next year at this time.\u00a0<\/p>\n 28. I hope Justin Rose<\/a> has one more major run in him.\u00a0<\/p>\n 29. Tyrrell Hatton is good for a laugh, but he\u2019s also posted 10 top-30s over his past 16 major starts<\/a>, with just one missed cut.\u00a0<\/p>\n 30. Over that same stretch<\/a>, Dustin Johnson has missed seven cuts and posted five top-30s.\u00a0<\/p>\n 31. Break time! Next month, my wife and I are going to Dublin for vacation. Gimme your recommendations!\u00a0<\/p>\n 32. Keegan Bradley<\/a> really does sound like he\u2019ll be playing in the Ryder Cup, doesn\u2019t he?<\/p>\n I thought this exchange was interesting, with the reporter\u2019s question in italics.\u00a0<\/p>\n Because this is kind of an unknown territory for most of us, including yourself, have you been talking about how you would actually work through this operationally?<\/p>\n \u201cYeah, it\u2019s interesting because so many times in my career I\u2019ve leaned on other players to help me go through situations, whether it\u2019s endorsements or certain situations or how I feel in tournaments,\u201d Bradley said. \u201cI have no one to talk to about this. I can\u2019t call someone who\u2019s done it. Tiger Woods did it at the Presidents Cup. I\u2019ve spoken to him a ton about this. There\u2019s a few other guys that have done it in the Presidents Cup. The Ryder Cup is a much different animal.<\/p>\n \u201cBut we have a plan. We have a \u2018for instance\u2019 that could happen. That can obviously change during the week. You\u2019ve got to see how each player is playing. But we\u2019re learning as we go just like everybody else.\u201d<\/p>\n Here\u2019s my guess for the U.S. team, as of July 21: Scheffler, Schauffele, DeChambeau, English, Bradley, J.J. Spaun, Russell Henley, Justin Thomas, Collin Morikawa, Patrick Cantlay, Ben Griffin and Maverick McNealy.\u00a0<\/p>\n A lot could change there.\u00a0<\/p>\n 33. I\u2019d like to see Sergio Garcia<\/a> in front of the New York crowds. It might be close.<\/p>\n Rory McIlroy lost the Open \u2014 but found something he\u2019d been missing<\/a> Here\u2019s my guess for the European team: McIlroy, MacIntyre, Fleetwood, Hatton, Rose, Fitzpatrick, Shane Lowry, Sepp Straka, Ludvig Aberg, Viktor Hovland, Jon Rahm and Rasmus Hojgaard.\u00a0<\/p>\n Does maybe one or two of those names change?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n 34. I\u2019d like to see Lee Westwood<\/a> and Ian Poulter at Bethpage, too.\u00a0<\/p>\n 35. Or Phil Mickelson<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n 36. Or Woods.\u00a0<\/p>\n 37. What do we make of the Lowry ruling on Friday? If you missed it, below is summary of what happened, and it\u2019s taken from a story<\/a> I wrote on Saturday:<\/p>\n Lowry took a practice swing ahead of his second shot on the 12th hole at Royal Portrush \u2014 and a TV replay showed that Lowry\u2019s ball slightly moved in the process, though he later said he didn\u2019t see it happen in the moment. After the round, officials met with Lowry and his playing partners, Scottie Scheffler and Collin Morikawa, and an agreement was made that Lowry would be given a two-stroke penalty.\u00a0<\/p>\n Why, though, was Lowry penalized after he said he didn\u2019t see the ball move? Notably, a rule<\/a> instituted eight years ago limits the use of slow-motion replay in rule decisions. That rule reads: \u201cIf the committee concludes that such facts could not reasonably have been seen with the naked eye and the player was not otherwise aware of the potential breach, the player will be deemed not to have breached the Rules, even when video technology shows otherwise. This is an extension of the provision on ball-at-rest-moved cases, which was introduced in 2014.\u201d<\/p>\n In its statement on Friday, the R&A said this:<\/p>\n \u201cAssessing whether the movement of the ball was visible to the naked eye in such a situation assumes the player being in a normal address position for the stroke.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cIn Shane Lowry\u2019s situation, the movement of the ball to another spot, including the movement of the logo, was discernible to the naked eye. The naked eye test is satisfied whether or not the player was looking at the ball when it moved.\u201d<\/p>\n On Friday, though, Lowry said he never saw the movement \u2014\u00a0and he said he took the penalty \u201cbecause I can\u2019t have my name talked about or tossed around like that, and I just get on with it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n He\u2019s not wrong, which is unfortunate.\u00a0<\/p>\n 38. The video below<\/a> was also interesting, though not suitable for work:<\/p>\n 39. The video below<\/a> on Ryan Peake, from Golf Channel, was outstanding.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n “><\/p>\n 40. Here are a few of my favorite reads this week from the on-site GOLF.com staff. From Michael Bamberger, this story<\/a> on Scheffler\u2019s win was great.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n 41. From James Colgan, this story<\/a> on Scheffler\u2019s Chipotle habits was great.\u00a0<\/p>\n 42. From Dylan Dethier, this story<\/a> on Scheffler\u2019s superpower was great.\u00a0<\/p>\n 43. From Claire Rogers, this story<\/a> on the reasons why the Open is the loveliest spectator event was great.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n 44. From Sean Zak, this story<\/a> on the Hatton\u2019s Guinness drinking tips is an important read.\u00a0<\/p>\n 45. From my personal batch, I was able to track down Richard Teder of Estonia ahead of the Open, and that story can be read here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n 46. Our Seen and Heard franchise, shot by Emma Devine, is excellent. You can watch the Open Championship episodes by clicking here<\/a> and here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n 47. Last year, after the Open Championship, I made these predictions for this year:<\/p>\n \u2013Masters: Aberg As you can see, none of these players won. But we\u2019ll try again. Here are some picks for next year:<\/p>\n \u2013Masters: Aberg I had a thought of picking Scheffler for all of them. Instead, I picked him for none of them. We\u2019ll see.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n 48. I thought the photo compilation below<\/a>, from Golf Digest\u2019s Jamie Kennedy, was terrific.\u00a0<\/p>\n Links golf hits differently.<\/p>\n Official photographers have taken more than 20,000 photos at @TheOpen<\/a> so far this week.<\/p>\n I scanned through them all to pick the 25 best.<\/p>\n Enjoy \ud83e\uddf5 pic.twitter.com\/CzFPBRYi8b<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Jamie Kennedy (@jamierkennedy) July 20, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n 49. I thought the video below<\/a>, from the Sugar Loaf Social Club, was wonderful.\u00a0<\/p>\n 50. I got my Guinness, as you can see in the pic below.<\/p>\n Nick Piastowski <\/p>\n Editor\u2019s note: The author also wrote 50 observations from the Masters, the PGA Championship, and the U.S. Open. Those stories can be found here<\/a>, here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n “><\/p>\n Nick Piastowski<\/p>\n Nick Piastowski is a Senior Editor at Golf.com and Golf Magazine. In his role, he is responsible for editing, writing and developing stories across the golf space. And when he\u2019s not writing about ways to hit the golf ball farther and straighter, the Milwaukee native is probably playing the game, hitting the ball left, right and short, and drinking a cold beer to wash away his score. You can reach out to him about any of these topics \u2014 his stories, his game or his beers \u2014 at nick.piastowski@golf.com. <\/p>\n
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