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3. One of the things that stood out most to me on Sunday was what Spieth said about Scottie. You can watch it starting right here.
The money quote for me was as follows.
I think more so maybe it's less the golf swing and maybe more of his personality. 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.
He doesn't want to go do the stuff that a lot of us go do, corporately, anything like that.
He just wants to get away from the game and separate the two because I know that at one time, he felt it was too much, that he was taking it with him. Whenever he made that switch, I don't know what it was, but he has hobbies. He's always with his family. They're always doing stuff.
Jordan Spieth
This is …
1. One of the more unusual quotes I’ve ever heard about a superstar and …
2. Absolutely terrifying for every other golfer in the world.
I think anyone who has experienced success at any level in the workplace knows and understands how difficult it is not to get swept up in that, to be consumed by it, to take it with us everywhere. To capitalize on it with a bigger salary and fancier title. Now imagine if you were the best golfer on earth and people were soberly comparing you to Tiger Woods.
How do you just leave that at the office?!
I am personally always thinking about this newsletter, what I can write to get more readers, how I can delight the ones I have. I am consumed with self more often than I would like to admit and I’ve experienced about 1/1,000,000 the success Scheffler has.
This is not normal. Not even close. And it makes me think it’s just kind of hardwired into him. Like, this is just who he is. Yes, it takes some discipline to not give yourself over to the corporate overlords or the magazine photo shoots or BMW commercials, but there is an internal scale on which he measures the cost and the benefit, and that scale is not the same one everyone else has.
Here’s my guy Paolo Uggetti on Scottie’s dad from the weekend.
Scott chatted up the marshals nearby, sharing childhood stories of Scottie, raving about how he bounced back from the double bogey on No. 8, acknowledging the company his son now keeps in golf history while preaching the same kind of message his son has espoused at every turn.
"He doesn't ever think about that, he never has. He's just like, 'At the moment, I'm good at what I do,'" Scott said. "I always told him the joy was in the journey. You never know what you'll find along the way."
ESPN
I believe this is called contentment.
But even as someone who would say I find myself to be rather content, I think the way Scottie goes about things so unique and almost confounding. Even as someone who is content, I so often get swept up in my own minuscule headlines. Reading my own press. Searching for ways to squeeze out and extra $10,000.
We probably all do it. How could you not? But Scottie apparently either doesn’t do it or is far less enamored of both his own headlines and his own wealth than anyone else.
I agree with Spieth: “I don't think anybody is like him.”
