Augusta, Ga. – Scottie Scheffler is a force with which it has been necessary to count for three years on the PGA Tour.
In a stroke of ingenuity, Rolex signed Scheffler to be one of his brand ambassadors on Sunday before the Masters 2022, his first of the two green jackets. This must become one of the greater approval agreements in golf and it continues to collect awards. Scheffler enters the 89th Masters as a world n ° 1 and although he has not yet won this season, he remains the favorite to win him again. Before the Masters of 2025, Scheffler participated in a Q&R focused on masters thanks to its partnership with Rolex which approached its memories by winning the masters in 2022, the pivotal moments of last year, and much more.
Q: Winning the Masters for the first time has exceeded all the expectations and all the dreams you had as a growing golfer?
Scottie Scheffler: As a young golfer, you always dream of putting the putt on the 18th hole to win the masters. I have four blows the last hole, so it was not necessarily the dream, the moment of childhood to make the winning putt, but the march of the 18th hole was extremely surreal. My shopping cart, Ted Scott, and I had a conversation when we approached, saying thank you, being grateful and really enjoying the moment. I think we really did (appreciated the moment) and the results of my bet on the 18th probably show how much we appreciate. I think that the feeling you get with the success and recognition of being able to realize a dream for life is so special. It’s really fun to put the green jacket and when you come back next year, you can organize the champions dinner and do everything you dreamed of. Going from a little child who learns to play the game to win the masters is a really humiliating experience.
Q: What are your good memories of the final round last year?
SS: I had a very good Sunday. I think it was a Sunday where I played very well, especially the last 10 or 11 holes to separate myself, especially there. I had storms on the holes 9 and 10 and I think that the holes 13, 14 and 16, so some key birdies when I really needed.
Q: Do you remember what you said to your friends before the final round?
SS: I do not remember what I said to my friends, but I remember what my friends told me.
Q: During your press conference, you said you said to them: “I want me to want to win so badly.” Can you explain what you mean by that because you like to win?
SS: I do it – I like to win, and as it is the Masters, there is always something special about this. When you grow up here in the United States, this is the tournament I think we are looking at the most, just with the history of the tournament with Mr. Jones, the National Golf Club Ugusta and the same golf course year after year. I think you just dream of having a chance to play in this tournament and having the opportunity to win it, for the second time, you are sitting there in the morning and thinking “I want it so much”. I almost wish that if I wanted it less, it would be easier for me to go out and play, but you want something that you have worked for so long.
Q: During your first round at the Masters tournament, the 12 and 13 holes were a crucial turning point. Can you guide us through these two holes?
SS: Thursday of the week was a day in which I became the most absolute that I could have round. I think I pulled five or six sous and was close to my head, and it was a day when I got off the golf course and I did not feel like my swing was in an ideal place. I remember getting out of the course and Randy said to me: “Excellent work” and asked me how I felt there, and I thought I could not continue to make three days in this tournament with my swing feeling like that and that we have to go to understand something. I remember being a day when I was really, really very effective, go around the course. We went to the range and I told Randy what I felt in my swing and he gave me a little tip with my grip. I remember having hit a blow and feeling exactly the way I wanted to feel, and I hit another one and it was exactly the way I wanted to feel, then we left the range and it was the feeling that I stayed with the rest of the week and it worked fairly well.
Q: What was the point?
SS: It was just the way my left thumb was on my grip. He made me move along the handle just a touch. I’m going to let Randy try to explain why. He loves this kind of thing. But I just told him how it was, feeling a little loose in the backswing, and he told me to move my left thumb just a touch. And I remember hitting my first blow to the left, because what I was doing all day was to save him. When I rinsed him and he came out just left, I could feel what I was doing in my swing. And then I struck another blow, and I could feel it well in the slit. It was exactly the feeling that I was looking for and when I woke up the next day, he was still there, and I hit him very well the rest of the week.
Q: So you just hit two bullets and leave?
SS: I may have struck a few more after that, but I remember hitting two shots and saying to myself: “Very good, that’s all”. It was the feeling I was looking for. And I’m sure I hit a few more bullets after that, but I remember that we didn’t really talk about anything else. I just said, give me more clubs, let me hit a few shots. And then we left the range. And it was our feeling for the week.
Q: In the third round, you went double Bogey 10, Bogey 11, Eagle 13 and Birdie 18 to return to position. Do you remember this section?
SS: I remember reaching him close enough to 10 and he found himself on the green in a bush. I remember missing a fairly creative putt on 11. I had missed a few putts on the right that day and I remember asked Teddy if he had seen something, and he said that the ball could be barely back in your position. He said about my neighbor to move him. I remember having done about seven feet for the peer on the hole 12. It was a clumsy putt where I could not really say in which direction he was going to break. I hit him on my line and he went right in the middle. Then, I made this long long Putt key on 13 for Eagle which turned the day quite quickly. This putt that I made on hole 13 looked like a large momentum switch for me.
Q: During the final round, do you remember the conversation on hole 13 about going in half?
SS: I think Teddy said something in the sense of if it was someone else, He would plan to go to bed, but he said you are the best long iron player in the world, so hit the green shot. At this stage of the final round, I had an advance, so you don’t want to play defensive and we don’t want to change the way we approach the turn. It was a moment there on the nine rear where we could have changed our way of playing and maybe we tried to light up, but I remember asked Teddy to see where his thoughts were, and that is at this point that he said: “You are a great iron player, hit the ball on the green.” I remember having hit a good blow in the middle of green, beautiful putt with two strokes, and make another key to the next hole.
Q: After the Tour, you stopped to cry, just after the trophy ceremony, can you get through what made you cry?
SS: I am moved to tears quite easily. Usually, I do not manage to an interview so long without crying when you speak like masters and things like that, so I’m a little proud of me for that! I remember having finished and marked, and everything is still going so quickly after winning tournaments. I remember that they went through what will happen now and I just asked if I could go to the toilet and I didn’t need to use them at all, I just needed two minutes for me. I remember walking towards the locker room and some people congratulated me, but there is really no one there because everyone is on the side of the clubhouse which is on the golf course. I had a great walk in the Champions changing rooms by myself and it is something that I always wanted to do after winning the tournament once, I wanted to start again as a champion.
The guys from the locker room always joke about maintaining the locker room, so it was quite fun to go up there and celebrate with the attendants up there. Sometimes you just need a few minutes to recover your thoughts. That’s really everything. I am a pretty emotional guy, and sometimes I just need a little time to think about it. It was not long, but I remember having gone to the toilet and just standing for a minute, taking deep breaths and a moment to reset before returning to present the trophy.
