{"id":19396,"date":"2025-07-24T03:39:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T03:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/19396\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T03:39:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T03:39:17","slug":"scottie-scheffler-and-wife-called-pga-tour-star-immediately-after-awkward-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/19396\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottie Scheffler and wife called PGA Tour star immediately after awkward incident"},"content":{"rendered":"

Childhood friends Scottie Scheffler and Sam Burns have both ascended the ranks to become PGA Tour winners – but their friendship was massively put to the test in 2021\"SamSam Burns and Scottie Scheffler are close friends on the PGA Tour(Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Scottie Scheffler and his wife reached out to PGA Tour <\/a>star Sam Burns<\/a> for a lengthy phone call after an awkward Ryder Cup<\/a> incident threatened to “ruin” their friendship. World No. 1 Scheffler<\/a> has been friends with the 22nd-ranked Burns since their teenage years. Their shared journey to stardom on the PGA Tour has only strengthened their bond.<\/p>\n

Burns, 29, hails from Louisiana and was even the best man at Scheffler’s wedding when he married Meredith Scudder <\/a>in December 2020. Their families have become close over the years, sharing rental homes at numerous tour stops, holidaying together, and even hosting couples’ board game nights.<\/p>\n

But their close friendship, which is more like family, was threatened by an awkward and unusual scenario back in 2021. Both players were in the running for the final Ryder Cup roster spot, but US Captain Steve Stricker decided to snub five-time PGA Tour winner Burns, phoning him to inform him he wouldn’t be on the team.<\/p>\n

The spot went to Scheffler, who had not yet claimed a victory on the tour. But rather than letting the awkwardness and any bad feelings linger, the Texan and his wife made the classy move to call his long-time friend, talking for half an hour while processing their emotions.<\/p>\n

“That can ruin a friendship if it\u2019s not something that\u2019s talked about,” Scheffler later admitted. Burns recalled: \u201cMe, Caroline, Scottie and Meredith spent a long time on a phone call with these weird<\/a> emotions of like, man, I am really sad but also happy for him. If it had been someone else, I would have been more disappointed that I wasn\u2019t on the team.\u201d<\/p>\n

The decision turned out to be the right one, as Scheffler went on to defeat then-world No. 1 Jon Rahm in the US victory. Since then, Scheffler has been on an upward trajectory, clinching four majors and becoming the most dominant golfer since Tiger Woods.<\/a><\/p>\n

The 29-year-old has held the world’s No. 1 ranking since May 2023, making his current streak at the top the longest since Woods’ from June 2005 to October 2010.<\/p>\n

\"ScottieScheffler and his wife Meredith spend a lot of time with the Burns family(Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\n

However, his meteoric rise hasn’t affected their friendship, with Scheffler giving a sneak peek into what their morning routine would look like ahead of this year’s US Open at Oakmont.<\/p>\n

Scheffler said: \u201cThe conversation in the morning will be that we\u2019ll just hang out, there will be our two little kids running around. There\u2019s nothing crazy, there\u2019s not much to say.<\/p>\n

\u201cSam has been preparing for moments like this for a long time and he\u2019s put himself into a position to win the golf<\/a> tournament. He\u2019s going to go out and try to execute. At the end of the day, all he\u2019s going to do is try to do his best and that\u2019s what I\u2019m going to do tomorrow as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Burns remains a proud friend, having watched Scheffler’s remarkable achievements from up close. Aside from being Scheffler’s biggest supporter on the fairways, he has also benefitted by receiving advice from the golfing powerhouse.<\/p>\n

Burns explained earlier this year: \u201cScottie is obviously an incredible player, I don\u2019t think I need to say that. We spend a lot of time together and being able to talk to him, learn from him and ask him questions has been really cool.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs good of a player he is, he\u2019s an even better guy and I think that\u2019s what makes it really special to watch, you want to root for someone like that. He\u2019s an easy guy to root for. It\u2019s been nice to pick his brain and ask him certain things.\u201d<\/p>\n

When asked whether he’d felt slightly envious of Scheffler’s achievements, Burns candidly responded: \u201cOf course, as a competitor, that\u2019s why we show up to play and we play to win. Watching him have success brings me a lot of joy.<\/p>\n

\u201cHim, his wife Meredith and son Bennett, they are an unbelievable family and it\u2019s been such a joy to watch how they steward that success to others around them. The amount of respect we have for them is very high.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Scheffler delivered a stunning performance to claim his first Claret Jug by four shots at Royal Portrush last week<\/a>, Burns ended up T45 after posting one-under.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Childhood friends Scottie Scheffler and Sam Burns have both ascended the ranks to become PGA Tour winners –…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,8693,6547,12426,3026,101,2626,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-19396","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-pga-tour","10":"tag-ryder-cup","11":"tag-sam-burns","12":"tag-scottie-scheffler","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-the-open-championship","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}