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Why Scottie Scheffler is a unique superstar

Why Scottie Scheffler is a unique superstar


It seems like he is going to the same conversation every time Scottie wins Scheffler as Tiger Woods.

The British Open and on the edge of 17 PGA tour win with four main titles in the past three years is a pace that sport has not seen since Wood's flowering period.

Despite the dominance, some players believe that Scheffler's name does not bear the weight that forests have done once, and in some cases still.

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“If Scotties stayed stable and his swing looked like Adam Scotts, we would talk about him in the same words as Tiger Woods,” said Shane Lowry after the last round of the British Open. “I only think because it doesn't look so perfect that we don't talk about him so much. I think he is just incredible to see and his bad recordings are really good. Then you know that it is really good.”

However, Jordan Spieth said it was not a Scheffler mechanism that holds him under the radar.

“I think more, maybe it is less of the golf swing and maybe more of his personality,” said Spieth. “It is not important to him to be a superstar. He doesn't cross the game like Tiger. He does not necessarily make it to a non-golf audience. He doesn't want to do what many of us do, something like that.

“He only wants to get away from the game and separate them because I know that at a time he was too much that he was too, and whenever he made this change, I don't know what it was, but he has hobbies. He is always with his family. They always do things.”

In his press conference before the tournament at Royal Portrush, Scheffler, the World No. 1, answered a question about his success philosophical and admitted: “This is not a fulfilling life. It fulfills from the meaning of performance, but it does not come true of a feeling of the deepest places in her heart.”

It is difficult to imagine that Woods repeats this feeling. He always had one goal: Jack Nicklaus '18 main title (Woods has 15).

Wood's former swing trainer, Hank Haney, was quoted in a Woods biography of poor Keteyian and Jeff Benedict: “Tiger has never allowed himself to be satisfied, because in his thoughts the satisfaction of the enemy of success is.

Since Scheffler does not necessarily imitate this way of thinking, Spieth has another comparison for his fellow human beings from Dalla.

“I would not necessarily believe that the golf swing makes such a difference as that overlay,” he said. “I think of so many other sports and [Denver Nuggets center] Nikola Jokic is the only type that I can imagine that a superstar is equally inconspicuous in every sport, and I am happy if someone else can find a different example, but it is very rare. Most people bow to it and take advantage of it. “

Then a reporter suggested that the 20-time Grand Slam champion Roger Federer Scheffler-Isque could be.

“Federer, he gave a lot – he may be the same kind of behavior and person; that does not mean – he is different,” said Spieth, “but he made more of the place than he all the time, and he took care of it. When Scottie is ready, he won't show at tournaments again. I can promise them.”

Perhaps Spieth and Lowry will find raconies between Scheffler and Woods, but other tour professionals are ready to bring them into the same sentence.

“Scottie is Tiger closest said at the Players Championship In March, Scheffler added three victories to his curriculum vitae, including the PGA championship. “He is not only the No. 1 player in the world, he hugs it and he appears every week and almost wins or is in a fight or wins. It is very impressive.”

The more Scheffler does it, the more he will join the sizes in the record books. And he will do it while he's on his way, which currently seems to work well.

“I think it is more the difference in the personality of every other superstar you saw in modern times and maybe in every sport. I don't think someone is like it.”