Scottie Scheffler has insisted that he does not think he is anything special despite winning his fourth major in three years after a dominant Open victory at Portrush.<\/p>\n
The 29-year-old American won by four shots<\/a> from Harris English to complete the third leg of a career grand slam, and afterwards he was compared to Tiger Woods by the Open winner last year, Xander Schauffele, and the 2019 champion, Shane Lowry.<\/p>\n Scheffler also doubled down when he was reminded he said before the Open that winning the Claret Jug would be awesome for only two minutes<\/a>, and that his family and faith were more important.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t think that I\u2019m anything special just because some weeks I\u2019m better at shooting a lower score than other guys are,\u201d Scheffler said.<\/p>\n \u201cAm I grateful for it? Do I enjoy it? Oh my gosh yes, this is a cool feeling. I can\u2019t wait to get home and celebrate this championship with the people that have helped me along the way. But at the end of the day, it doesn\u2019t fulfil the deepest desires of my heart. I don\u2019t know why I\u2019m so lucky that I get to live out my dreams, but it\u2019s something I\u2019m very grateful for.<\/p>\n \u201cIf somebody was going to listen to the comments I had this week, I would encourage them to listen to all of it, and I hope I did a good job communicating that this is amazing to win the Open Championship. But at the end of the day, having success in life, whether it be in golf, work, whatever it is, that\u2019s not what fulfils the deepest desires of your heart.\u201d<\/p>\n Pressed by reporters, Scheffler said: \u201cJust because you win a golf tournament or accomplish something, it doesn\u2019t make you happy. It doesn\u2019t \u2013 maybe for a few moments, maybe for a few days, but at the end of the day, there\u2019s more to life than playing golf. I\u2019m pretty excited to go home and celebrate this one.\u201d<\/p>\n Scheffler also played down comparisons with Tiger Woods. \u201cI still think they\u2019re a bit 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 was inspirational for me growing up. He was a very, very talented guy, and he was a special person to be able to be as good as he was at the game of golf.\u201d<\/p>\n Scheffler, who lifted the Claret Jug with one arm while holding his 14\u2011month\u2011old son Bennett, also revealed that his love of golf was already being passed down to his offspring. \u201cIt\u2019s very cool to have him here,\u201d Scheffler said. \u201cHe obviously has no clue what\u2019s going on.<\/p>\n skip past newsletter promotion<\/a><\/p>\n The best of our sports journalism from the past seven days and a heads-up on the weekend\u2019s action<\/p>\n Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. For more information see our Privacy Policy<\/a>. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy<\/a> and Terms of Service<\/a> apply.<\/p>\n after newsletter promotion<\/p>\n \u201cBennett started swinging a club back and forth. I put a golf ball down, and he hit it. To be able to occupy a one-year-old with anything is probably a pretty good thing for them to be able to focus on.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s pretty special to be able to celebrate here with my family. I hope Bennett\u2019s able to get into golf one day. The game of golf has taught me a tremendous amount. I feel like every day you go out and play golf you\u2019re looking in the mirror, and I\u2019ve met some of my best friends through the game of golf.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a very special game. You call penalties on yourself, and it\u2019s just \u2013 you learn a lot of good life lessons by playing golf. I hope he can play one day, and I hope he enjoys it as much as I do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scottie Scheffler has insisted that he does not think he is anything special despite winning his fourth major…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-9542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}