He beat fellow American Kevin Kisner 4&3 within the ultimate to finish Jon Rahm’s 36-week keep on the most sensible of the scores.
Within the press convention after turning into international No. 1 for the primary time in his occupation, Scheffler mentioned that his head used to be nonetheless “spinning.”
“It isn’t one thing that I did not wish to succeed in or did not imagine that I may do. I grew up at Royal Oaks (Nation Membership in Dallas, Texas). I grew up dressed in lengthy pants to head apply as a result of I sought after to be a qualified golfer,” he defined.
“That is what I dreamed of. I dreamed of being out right here. I have all the time been, I might say, fiercely aggressive, and so for me getting out right here used to be a function in keeping with se, and being out right here, I love competing and I benefit from the problem of taking part in out right here each week. Simply competing out this is actually a laugh for me and simply with the ability to win tournaments is lovely superior.
“The scores by no means actually crossed my thoughts. It used to be all the time near to being out right here and competing.”
Scheffler’s upward push to the summit of golfing’s scores has come at the again of a few superb contemporary shape.
43 days in the past, the 25-year-old did not have a PGA Excursion victory to his title, however now, he has 3 in his closing 5 begins.
Scheffler received the Phoenix Open in February via beating Patrick Cantlay in a playoff, then clinched the Arnold Palmer Invitational previous this month.
And his victory on the WGC-Dell Applied sciences Fit Play tournament — through which he needed to beat former international No. 1 Dustin Johnson within the semifinal — on the Austin Nation Membership caps off a very good run of shape.
After going goodbye with no win, Scheffler theorized that now he is “making up for a bit of little bit of misplaced time perhaps the previous few weeks.”
“I by no means were given that a long way in my desires,” an emotional Scheffler mentioned right through the trophy rite. “I simply play golfing. I like competing. I am satisfied to be out right here, you realize?”
Given his contemporary spectacular run of shape, Scheffler has turn into one of the vital favorites for the Masters which start on April 7 at Augusta Nationwide.
