I once wrote a song with the line in it, “is there anything more boring than golf?” This, of course, was from the uninitiated viewer’s perspective; and in the song’s case from a disgruntled girlfriend of a golfer. Scottie Scheffler and the boring golfer problem highlights this age old issue in the sporting canon. You see, golf is a largely internalised sporting process. By this, I mean, a lot of the dramatic stuff happens on the inside where spectators cannot see. The placid visage of Scheffler makes it hard for viewers to get excited about him or his golf. Therefore, it means that outcomes have to be enough because the processes appear to be nonplussed.
Scottie Scheffler & Does He Have A Pulse?
The tall Texan laconically lopes around the golf course. Do a little dance and get that ball down the fairway folks. The bearded major golfer makes playing this game look too easy. Where is the struggle? Where is the fortitude inspired overcoming of the fear of failure? Probably there, but all on the inside. Scheffler and the boring golfer problem has gripped the nation, well groped it somewhat, perhaps? Scottie is still a young man and the celebrity attention has him flummoxed, I reckon.
2025 Golfer Of The Year Is Scottie Scheffler
Indeed, we have seen Scottie Scheffler angry and frustrated this year on coming back from injury. The expectations so high and not winning every week was, obviously, pissing him off. Now, however, he is back at the pinnacle of golf and things are tickety-boo. Scottie is an Open champion in 2025 at Royal Portrush – despite this being a week long celebration of being Irish festival. The Rory roar could not overcome Scheffler’s boring talent in the end. The world’s most boring superstar golfer reigned supreme over the links and left the field in his placid wake.
Irish Golf Fest & Those Damned Americans
I did think that the Americans appeared to be more hardnosed about the Open and three of then finished at the top. Even if one of them was called English, the best the Brits could do was a distant fourth. I suppose the Yanks coming from the Trump regime’s dystopian USA had less to feel cheerful about. The Brits were in thrall to the warm glow of the hundreds of thousands of golf fans cheering them on come rain, hail or shine. On the weekend it did shine on the coast of North Ireland where the weather was benign. It was most unlike an Open and very different from 2019. Scottie Scheffler was too good despite the fine weather for challengers and Rory McIlroy never mounted a realistic attempt at a charge.
“The American realised his dream to win The 153rd Open with a performance that will live long in the memory for its relentlessness, its efficiency and its immense skill.
Scheffler did not just win at Royal Portrush. He almost lapped the field while doing so, with a four-shot margin of victory that felt like even more.”
The Boring Best Golfer In The World
“Any hesitation about comparisons — besides the 15-4 tally in majors, as Scheffler is quick to point out — is their style of play. Woods was as dynamic as he was relentless, especially with recovery shots. Scheffler doesn’t have that many because he’s rarely out of position.
Woods was groomed for stardom when he appeared on “The Mike Douglas Show” at age 2. Scheffler never cared about anything other than playing golf and getting better at it.
“He doesn’t care to be a superstar. He’s not transcending the game like Tiger did. He’s not bringing it to a non-golf audience necessarily,” Jordan Spieth said. “He doesn’t want to go do the stuff that a lot of us go do, corporately, anything like that.”
He works. He competes. He wins. That’s what Woods did, and that’s what matters to Scheffler.”
Robert Sudha Hamilton is the author of The Stoic Golfer and America Matters: Pre-apocalyptic Posts & Essays in the Shadow of Trump.
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