Scottie Scheffler opens up to parents. And the mother did not ask a single question how

Scottie Scheffler talks about the score.

This is the week of the PGA Championship, but this story is about a small event he played in when he was 12 years old. It was a qualifying event, he explained, and you could take your result and enter that week’s main tournament, or use it in the future. But Scheffler’s father, Scott, didn’t make it an either/or proposition. His son could only play in the qualifiers. There is no competition that week. Family had to be somewhere.

A feast. Scott got off Scottie. Scottie played. Scottie called him when it was over.

“You go, ‘I don’t like this. This is not what I want to hear,'” the younger Scheffler said Tuesday at Aronimink Golf Club, a PGA official. “I said, ‘Well, dad, I won the qualifier.’ So if I win the qualifying game, I get into the tournament, and I get to save the release. So I’m like, I have to play in the tournament.

He’s like, ‘Scottie, I told you, you can’t play in the tournament. I’m like, ‘But dad, I won.’

Yes, he would remember that story.

He was just listening to his mother.

Scheffler was asked at a pre-PGA press conference for advice from young golfers and their parents, and he said his parents never pushed him. They were going to bring down coach Randy Smith, and then he left.

“I think there were more important things to them than my golf game,” Scheffler said. “I think growing up, especially when you look at youth sports today, I think you see a lot of overzealous parents. That doesn’t come from a place where they don’t care. I think they want their kids to be successful. I think they want to do well. I think sometimes pushing for something is the best way to do it.

“Maybe it doesn’t happen in other situations, but I think I did my best when my parents left me on the golf course and let me do my own thing.” One of the first things Randy taught my dad was that when Scottie got to the golf course, he took his own bag out of the cart and took his place. helping, but not pressuring me to be anything other than a good student and a good person it wasn’t just golf with them.

And his mother, Diane, did what was “interesting,” he said. He had a law.

“He never asked me to shoot,” Scheffler said. He said, ‘If you want me to know what you shot, you will tell me.

“‘I don’t have to ask you why you shot.’

Good advice, and the benefits are obvious. Later in the press conference, Scheffler talked about how he’s focused on the inside and how he enjoys improving, and you can see where that started. However, you still want to know.

Did Scheffler play in that little tournament?

And how did you do it?

He remembered that, too.

“So he ends up letting me play in the tournament,” said Scheffler, “and I remember calling him when the tournament ended, because the tournament was a few hours away, and he had to leave me there for a while.

“I called him after the tournament, because the tournament is over, everything is fixed, and he won’t be back for an hour or two. So I just practiced after the tournament. I called him, ‘Well, dad’ – I told him what I was excited about, I finished in fifth place. Now I’m not completely released. We don’t have to worry about the qualifiers to play as a couple, ‘Okay’. hours.'”

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