With 17 PGA Tour titles, Scottie Scheffler\u2019s trophy room is plenty busy, but adding the claret jug to the shelf following his victory last month at The Open Championship felt uniquely special.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Masters, you get the green jacket for a year and the Wanamaker [Trophy] is a big old trophy [for winning the PGA Championship] and then the claret jug is kind of the perfect size where you can just carry it around and sometimes people don\u2019t even really know you have it,\u201d Scheffler said Wednesday at the FedEx St. Jude Championship, his first start since winning at Royal Portrush. \u201cIt\u2019s fun.\u201d<\/p>\n
Given his history for understated celebrations, Scheffler\u2019s victory lap with the claret jug didn\u2019t seem to include the level of hijinks enjoyed by some previous Champion Golfers of the Year, but the world No. 1 did allow his most recent prize to make the rounds at his home club in Dallas.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had a party two weeks ago at home with some of our friends, and everybody got to drink out of it. It was a lot of fun,\u201d Scheffler said. \u201cI brought it up to Royal Oaks [Country Club] a couple times, my home course, and one afternoon I think [wife] Meredith was getting a haircut or something, and I was resting and so I had [son] Bennett, and I took him to Royal Oaks.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe whacked some golf balls around, and we hung out for a bit. I took him to the 19th hole with me, and I got some pretty funny pictures with Bennett sitting in the 19th hole at the men\u2019s only grill where I think you\u2019ve got to be 19 [years old] to get in there, but I figured if we bring in a couple major championship trophies with us, they\u2019ll let the rules slide on that one.\u201d<\/p>\n
Having won the Masters, PGA Championship and Open Championship, Scheffler can complete the career Grand Slam next summer at the U.S. Open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With 17 PGA Tour titles, Scottie Scheffler\u2019s trophy room is plenty busy, but adding the claret jug to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-51501","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}