In Royal Portrush the British Open is played twice. An edition the dispute only that has no rivals in the countryside, as if walking alone in the streets and greens Battered by the North Ireland Sea, the ruins of Dunluce Castle by cutting in the orange light of the sunset and the giant road emerging on the coast. It is a melancholic landscape and its only contender is history. The other tournament is the one that welcomes the rest of the best golfers on the planet. A wide handful of players is elbow, but everyone knows that for them the goal is a second place. In the first one expects Scheffler, who travels the 18 holes as the seconds of an countdown to glory.
Scottie Scheffler wins the British Open, and said this is almost the slightest news, or at least the most anticipated, given its absolute mastery of the game and the scene. The American is crowned with 17 blows under the pair, four advantage over Harris English (-13; with the Galician Ramón Bescansa as caddie and coach), five about Chris Gotterup (-12), six about Wyndham Clark, Matt Fitzpatrick and Haotong Li (-11), seven about Robert MacIntyre, Xander Schauffele and Rory Mcilroy (-10). Sergio García and Jon Rahm see the final battle with binoculars: -3, in 34th position. The distance between Scheffler and the second (four blows) is the same as between the second and the thirteenth.
The Clarete jug is already in the hands of the age of 29, Scheffler lifts the most prestigious trophy in the history of golf, the one that forges the legends, its large room after the green jackets of the Augusta Masters in 2022 and 2024 and the PGA championship of this course. Only the US Open subtracts to complete an Olympus in which they also generate Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods. Precisely at the time of Tigre’s tyranny sends Scheffler’s domain.
The golf playing machine started with a birdie In the 1 to postpone any suspense. And showed his emotions by pressing his fist and jaw by saving the pair in 6 and 7 with two putts long, although it no longer escaped a double bogey In 8 when getting caught in the bunker. Was the robot really human? It was a minimum loophole that closed very soon to discount stages until entering the green From 18 with Royal Portrush’s stands standing. After the last emboque he already let his emotions flow, hugged his wife, Meredith, and took his little son, Bennett in his arms.
Scheffler adds the British to the successes this year at the Byron Nelson, the Memorial and the PGA, and that taking into account that the season began with several weeks off at his record in the greats of this campaign portrays that splendor: Fourth in the Masters, first in the PGA, seventh in the US Open and again winner in the British Open. It is one of the best sequences ever seen. The Texan will dawn on Monday in its 150th week on the world throne, only behind Tiger (683) and Greg Norman (331) in the historic record (Seve added 61 weeks; Rahm, 52). Since May 2023, nobody gets off the pedestal. It doesn’t even get closer. Last year (eight titles and Olympic gold in Paris) signed the lowest registered average (68.01) in the American circuit.
The records are piled up while he gives off naturalness. “I only try to compete and win,” summarizes this very religious man who thanks God for his talent; “That does not change me as a person when I return home. If I started to take my trophies and walk big, my wife would slap me. Winning golf tournaments doesn’t make me different.” But it is. Only.
“Everything does well,” Jon Rahm defines him, someone who; “It is very accurate from the teevery accurate with irons, but what is not talked about so much is the good short game it has. He has also made a change. He is able to wear the good and bad times very well as if nothing happened and get the best of himself when it is necessary. ”According to Tiger, when he kicks at his best level,“ do not see him. ”It is what happened in the British Open of Royal Portrush.
