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00:00Inevitability, comparisons to Tiger Woods in major championships.
00:05That is the Scotty Scheffler story once again.
00:08The fourth major win in his career in the first as he hoists a claret jug.
00:13The third leg of four in the career grand slam for Scotty Scheffler
00:17as he wins the Open Championship in 2025 in Northern Ireland at Royal Portrush by a lot.
00:25Four shots to be exact at 17 under par.
00:29By the time we left the airwaves, the RS, on Friday afternoon,
00:33Scotty Scheffler was beginning his second round at Royal Portrush.
00:37By the time round number two came to a close,
00:39Scotty Scheffler had a lead by multiple shots at the Open Championship.
00:44By the time that Saturday came around, he was the 54-hole leader.
00:48And by the time Sunday came to a close, and at times during Sunday,
00:52a seven-stroke advantage, Scotty Scheffler wins his fourth major championship
00:57in his career at the age of 29 and a third leg in four of the career grand slam.
01:04His first time being crowned a champion golfer of the year.
01:08Victoria is at the Open Championship.
01:10He was fantastic in all four rounds.
01:12Sometimes all you ask for, and the sports folks certainly understand this now from Scheffler,
01:16if he's lurking, which means five shots back by the time you get to the weekend,
01:20he's going to be a favorite because you know he's mentally stronger than 98% of the field
01:24and can just wear you out on Saturday moving day and then into Sunday on the back nine.
01:29But we didn't have any drama, and sometimes that's all we can ask for.
01:32Dominance is usually great for professional sports.
01:35You go back in the years, it was like, all right, well, Michael Jordan and the Bulls,
01:38well, they smashed everybody in the 90s, but we all watched.
01:40Every single time they got to the finals, you probably knew the Bulls were going to win,
01:43but we still watched because we liked the dominance.
01:45The Dallas Cowboys in the 1990s.
01:47Why are they America's team?
01:48Well, you know, a quarter of the country loves the Cowboys.
01:5175% of the country hates the Cowboys, but you know what?
01:53We all watch the Cowboys and that dominance.
01:55Me being a Philadelphia Eagles fan, a Super Bowl for the Eagles in the 90s
01:59was knocking the Cowboys off one time every year, and maybe it'd be a big game.
02:03Like, yeah, beat them, but oh no, Cowboys ended up winning the Super Bowl
02:06because we love to go up after the villains and the superstar athletes.
02:10Here's what we have with Scotty Scheffler, one of the most dominant athletes
02:12that we've seen over the past 15 years in golf, and he's absolutely tearing it up.
02:17But the problem for us is, what can we grasp onto?
02:20Like, we talked about last week with Scotty Scheffler, hey, you know what?
02:22I'm a professional, and you know, winning is fleeting at times,
02:25and it's just like, hey, I won, but on to the next tournament.
02:27I don't really get to enjoy it, but here I am as a millionaire.
02:30It's all fine and good.
02:31We just like those superstars to be either villains or tell you,
02:35I am such a dominant athlete, like a Kobe Bryant.
02:37Like, all that matters is me working out and taking your heart
02:40once we get out onto the basketball court.
02:43But Scotty Scheffler doing his dominance in a different way,
02:45we'll see if it holds up, because the one thing we knew,
02:47when Tiger was dominant, the ratings were sky high.
02:51Now we take a look at Scotty Scheffler being dominant.
02:53We'll see if we can get some of those ratings as well.
02:56Yeah, part of the DRS is his dominance,
02:58and just him absolutely lapping the field.
03:01We had a seven-shot advantage for Scotty Scheffler
03:03as he was about to make the turn on Sunday.
03:07There wasn't much drama, and it did not feel as though
03:10there was going to be any drama during the final round at Royal Portrush.
03:14Why? Because Scotty Scheffler has now won 11 consecutive tournaments
03:18when he has held that 54-hole lead at the end of three rounds.
03:23From a betting perspective, is there drama or even value?
03:27Donnie, every time that Scheffler is in a field,
03:30major championship or regular PGA Tour event,
03:33we ask Keith Stewart, variety of guests, ourselves,
03:37is there value on the price that is so drastically short on Scotty?
03:41And for a lot of times now, since he started this dominant run
03:45back in the spring of 2022, the answer is no.
03:49There might be value in terms of a number,
03:51but in terms of winning and cashing that ticket, absolutely not.
03:55Plus 450 pre-tournament, he fires an opening round 68, three under par,
04:00one of four golfers ever at the open to shoot a 68 or better.
04:04And all four rounds in plus 450 by the time we got to Saturday was minus 300.
04:11That might be value on Scheffler himself.
04:14But Donnie, we are now talking about dominance.
04:16And you mentioned the man right there that is the natural comparison
04:19because it was dominance on a level we had never seen in the world of golf.
04:24That being Eldrick Tiger Woods.
04:26Scotty Scheffler wins his fourth major championship.
04:29He is one of four golfers prior to the age of 30 years old
04:33to capture a Masters in the modern major era, which dates back to 1934.
04:39One of four golfers to capture a green jacket at the Masters,
04:43a PGA and open championship prior to the age of 30.
04:47Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods, and Scotty Scheffler.
04:52Basically every time he wins DRS,
04:54we anoint him in this category of historical greats in golf.
04:57And that is certainly the resume Scotty Scheffler is stacking up.
05:01Yeah, and I'll tell you what would be interesting too,
05:02because we've seen some great golfers in their 20s sort of like, you know,
05:05fizzle out just a little bit like the Brooks Koepka.
05:07It's like, man, it was his decade to half.
05:09Now he should have turned it over to like Scotty Scheffler
05:11and see the way they win.
05:12But the reason I bring this up is so many times we look at athletes like of the past,
05:15like just chasing greatness.
05:17Like I think Tiger Woods would say, you know what?
05:19If you just work hard by the time you're 60 years old,
05:21you can still win another major.
05:22He'd go all the way to 60 with that competitive thirst.
05:24It seems like what we see out of Scotty Scheffler is,
05:27could there be a chance where he's like 36 years old and goes,
05:30hey man, won seven majors, could probably win a few more.
05:33I just want to be a husband and a family man.
05:35Now I'm just going to say goodbye to the game.
05:36Got more than enough money at this point here.
05:38Because back in the day, players used to play 20 plus years,
05:41not because they wanted to, because they needed the money.
05:44The golfers today, specifically Scotty Scheffler winning $3.1 million
05:47like he did yesterday in a major.
05:49Who knows how long he has to play?
05:50Because if we're already hearing about, yes, all my life I like to golf,
05:54but there's other things I like to do.
05:56How long is Scotty Scheffler going to play on the PGA Tour?
05:58I wonder about that.
05:59Yeah, I don't think that's really a fair statement.
06:01I think Scotty Scheffler will describe it himself following the break.
06:05As we hear from him, his competitive desire is certainly there
06:08as we see it displayed each and every week.
06:12Scotty Scheffler, the first ever player in the history of golf
06:15in the modern major era, which again,
06:17dates back to when the Masters started in March of 1934
06:21to win his first four major championships all by at least three shots.
06:26He captures the Open Championship in a clear jug for the first time.
06:31Four majors overall in his career, DRS.
06:33Three of the four in the career Grand Slam.
06:37He will have the opportunity to complete the career Grand Slam
06:40next June at Shinnecock out on Long Island.
06:44If he wins the United States Open in 2026, it will be on June 21st,
06:49which is Scotty Scheffler's 30th birthday.
06:51The dominance will continue for Scheffler,
06:54who has 20 wins since February of 2022.
06:58Over under four and a half years, Ben.
07:00Hangs it up.
07:01Don't like this game.
07:02I told you guys five years ago, I hated this sport.
07:05I don't want to show up to work.
07:06I hate winning.
07:07Let somebody else win and let me go back
07:08and just drive a John Deere on my property somewhere in Texas.
07:11All right, we'll hear from Scotty Scheffler up next
07:15as he will try to repeat what Donnie just claimed right there.
07:18Next.
07:20Scotty Scheffler wins the fourth major championship already in his career.
07:24Two Masters, a PGA Championship,
07:27and now the Champion Golfer of the Year at the Open,
07:30hoisting that clear-it jug.
07:32Of course, Scotty Scheffler entering the week DRS
07:34as world number one made headlines that we discussed here,
07:38getting ready for the Open with Keith Stewart.
07:40His introspective look at what fuels and fulfills him
07:45as a professional golfer and the best to do it.
07:49Let's hear from Scotty Scheffler at the end of winning the clear-it jug
07:52for the first time in his career in dominant fashion.
07:56Yeah, I mean, you know, I think we live now in a day and age
08:00of where, you know, clickbait is kind of what people look for,
08:03and you can shorten a five-minute clip into, you know, three words,
08:06I think really underestimates what I was trying to communicate.
08:08You know, maybe I didn't do as effective of a job
08:11of what I would have hoped to in communicating that,
08:13but, you know, at the end of the day,
08:14I have a tremendous amount of gratitude towards moments like these.
08:17You know, I've literally worked my entire life
08:19to become somewhat good at this game,
08:22to be able to play this game for a living,
08:23and it's one of the great joys of my life being able to compete out here,
08:25and to be able to win the Open Championship here at Portrush
08:29is a feeling that's really hard to describe.
08:32DRS, basically trying to rebuke what you were just alluding to
08:36prior to the commercial break.
08:38Your response?
08:39Yeah, my response is this.
08:41You ever get together with the fellows on like a Friday night?
08:43It gets late, you know, just the boys are hanging around
08:45after, you know, you had a party around 12.30,
08:47one o'clock in the morning, a couple of whiskeys go down,
08:50and the truth starts to come out at that point.
08:52Like, oh, that's really interesting.
08:53And then the next day, the friend comes back over,
08:55Shake Shams is like, yeah, buddy,
08:56I didn't mean what I said last night.
08:58You absolutely meant every single word of what you sent last night
09:02without that filter on.
09:03That's about what Scotty Scheffler talking to the press yesterday.
09:06Like, you know what?
09:07I was off the cuff last week speaking my mind
09:09and speaking my true thoughts,
09:10and my agent, my team got together,
09:12and I'm even hearing it from the people over here in the Open.
09:14Like, you're telling me you're coming over to the Open,
09:15you really don't care about golf at this point,
09:17winning is fleeting, whatever's going to happen.
09:19It's amazing how much your mind will change
09:21when you hear the public feedback.
09:22But what I get out of this,
09:23he's trying to convince himself
09:24that he actually loves the game of golf at this point.
09:27It's not what I said last week where,
09:28man, I win and it doesn't even matter anymore.
09:30Now, 48 hours later, 72 hours later,
09:33it really means something?
09:34No, it doesn't.
09:35We'll have these conversations
09:36all the way through at this point.
09:37When you first open your mouth,
09:39take that man at his word.
09:41Don't have him at a press conference after he won
09:43going like, boy, I better nip this in the bug.
09:44Is this any great look for golf?
09:46I hate my job and I'm winning all these championships.
09:48Pretty soon sooner than later,
09:49maybe the fans turn on me at that point to say,
09:52hey, everything's happy and fine.
09:53No, it's not.
09:54I believe that's your first word.
09:56And your first word was,
09:57man, I don't know if I like the sport too much.
09:59That's what I got out of this week.
10:01So DRS basically saying drunk words are sober thoughts.
10:05Oh, yes.
10:06Post-climic junk words are pre-tournament thoughts,
10:10whatever that might be.
10:12Now, listen, I don't think the idea of clickbait is fair.
10:16Even the clip that we shared here in discussion with Keith
10:19on Wednesday pre-open championship,
10:22we played for about a minute and a half.
10:24But I did listen to all five plus minutes
10:28of Scotty Scheffler's answer
10:29because I think transparency and honesty
10:32and the interview standpoint of a dominant athlete
10:35is fascinating.
10:37We ask our athletes to not give us coach speak
10:39and to truly tell us what is going on in their minds,
10:42what is circling the wagons as they get ready to contend
10:46for the biggest stages in a sport.
10:49And I thought Scotty's introspective answer was fascinating
10:53because one, it just details who Scotty Scheffler is.
10:56He is a fiery competitor, but he's not Tiger Woods.
10:59He's an absolute champion, but he's not Kobe Bryant
11:02in the way that he approaches his maniacal sense of self
11:06on a golf course.
11:07But I think what Scotty did not do a great job
11:10of kind of throwing in DRS in that five-minute answer
11:14way back on Wednesday was the idea of,
11:17I still have the competitive fire.
11:18I'm going to go out here each and every week
11:20and try to smack around the competition
11:21as I have put on display in the last three plus years.
11:26Had he added that simple statement,
11:28I don't think we judge him in the same way that we do
11:30to his full answer.
11:32But I still think the idea of golf in championships
11:35not being his overall ultimate sense of fulfillment is fine.
11:40He gets that in other areas.
11:41But still to have those euphoric moments
11:44that he says don't last all that much,
11:46he is still working harder than anybody else
11:48and is better at gaining those euphoric moments
11:51than anybody else we are currently seeing in golf.
11:54Yeah, and most of the time, like when you win,
11:56like it's euphoric in that moment.
11:58And I just like to pick on Scotty Scheffler.
12:00It's like, what do I do in the last win?
12:02Oh, spike your hat.
12:03Okay.
12:03Oh, what do I do this time?
12:04Uh, throw my hat up in the early graduation
12:06and then please get my family out here
12:08because I'm really not comfortable
12:09and I don't want to have to like wave to the crowd.
12:11At least I can hug my kid and, you know,
12:13have my wife out here with me.
12:14It just doesn't seem organic,
12:16which isn't a bad thing.
12:17He's a dominant golfer.
12:18He's fantastic at his job.
12:19But sometimes we just can't have it all
12:21where the guy wants to win at all costs
12:23and has ultra emotion.
12:25Those are the athletes that we typically love
12:26in the biggest moment.
12:27Let me tell you something right now.
12:292017, if the Eagles won the Super Bowl
12:30against the New England Patriots
12:31and walked out slowly
12:32and didn't celebrate that win,
12:33I'd have an issue with it.
12:35Show some passion.
12:36Hey.
12:38Donnie's favorite golfer,
12:39Scotty Scheffler.
12:40More next.
12:42So with Scotty Scheffler's dominance
12:43for a second time
12:45in a major championship this year,
12:47major championship season in golf,
12:49the RS has officially come to a close.
12:52And what a major season it was.
12:54Dating all the way back to April in Augusta,
12:57Rory McIlroy in a playoff
12:59over Justin Rose,
13:00completes the career grand slam
13:03after an 11-year drought.
13:05He wins the green jacket
13:06for the first time in his career.
13:08It was absolutely thrilling.
13:10Scotty Scheffler dominant
13:11at the PGA Championship,
13:13responding from the year prior in Louisville
13:15when he was arrested,
13:17entering round number two.
13:18Cops might be the only thing
13:20stopping Scotty from winning so many majors.
13:22It is crazy.
13:24JJ spawned in a rainy weekend at Oakmont,
13:28outlost everybody else in the United States Open,
13:30and Scotty Scheffler wins half
13:32of the four majors this year,
13:34the fourth in his career,
13:36all coming prior to the age of 30,
13:39winning a Claret Jug and the Open
13:41for the first time in his career.
13:43By the way,
13:44I'm sure everybody saw this stat yesterday.
13:47Scotty Scheffler won his first major championship
13:49of the 2022 Masters.
13:51He's won his fourth major championship
13:53here at the 2025 Open yesterday
13:56in Northern Ireland.
13:571,197 days between those titles.
14:03Same exact amount of time for Tiger Woods,
14:06who won his first major championship
14:07of the 1997 Masters,
14:10won his fourth major championship
14:12at the 2000 Open.
14:14Time in between,
14:161,197 days.
14:19The comparisons are there,
14:20DRS, between Scotty and Tiger,
14:22even if Scheffler said post-tournament yesterday,
14:26I still got to earn a lot
14:27before you can really put me
14:28in the same sentence as the big cat.
14:30Yeah, because we've seen a lot of people
14:32do some damage throughout their career,
14:34get on a nice hot run,
14:35but how long can you extend that run
14:36and how long can you be dominant for?
14:38There's only four majors of the season
14:40and we're already in the month of July.
14:41We're down all four majors.
14:43It used to be, what,
14:43the August month was for the PGA Championship,
14:45so now it's like,
14:46all right,
14:47how do I get myself up
14:48for the regular tournaments
14:48or the fake tour championship,
14:50which I don't even think the players liked
14:52and forced to change
14:52in the absolute format
14:53just to get them to keep coming back
14:55at this point.
14:56It's basically just the big money grab.
14:57You ever get yourself and say,
14:58hey, I'm going to walk into the mall
14:59and it's, hey,
15:00put yourself in here
15:01and the dollars swirl around
15:02and just try to grab them.
15:03Like, that's the end of the PGA Tour
15:04Championship season
15:05where it's like,
15:06it's just about money
15:07and not really about winning at all.
15:09So it's going in the off season,
15:11then coming back for the Masters
15:12and re-gearing up
15:13to try to win one of those four
15:14just to continue your dominance.
15:15It's a tough sport
15:16because again,
15:17it does take its time off.
15:18Once you get after
15:19a major championship season,
15:20and also,
15:21they are competitors.
15:22They can tell you,
15:23hey, it's a week-to-week grind.
15:24No, it's not.
15:25Like, you do grind week-to-week,
15:26but you get really up for the majors
15:28and now that you don't have
15:29any more majors,
15:30it's always interesting
15:30to see how the rest
15:31of the season plays out.
15:32It's almost like,
15:33yeah, Sheffield won
15:34two more tournaments
15:35or whatever.
15:35It's like,
15:35well, they're not majors
15:36so they don't matter.
15:37Like, when you're winning
15:37at that stage
15:38and Tiger fell into the same thing.
15:40Like, well,
15:40I don't know if I'm going to play
15:41in the AT&T
15:42because they sponsor me,
15:43but Tiger didn't play
15:43a lot of golf tournaments
15:45basically saying,
15:46I'll play in a few,
15:47but the majors
15:47are the only thing
15:48I'm worried about at this point
15:49because that's the only win
15:50that matters for me.
15:52Since the start of 2022,
15:54Scotty Scheffler
15:55has won 20 times on tour,
15:57including four major championships
15:59and 20 wins
16:00can be internationally as well.
16:02In 81 total professional starts,
16:05he is winning a quarter
16:06of the time
16:07that he plays
16:08in a golf tournament.
16:09Two more weeks
16:10of the regular season
16:11on the PGA Tour.
16:13FedEx Cup playoffs
16:14begin the second full weekend
16:16of August.
16:17And DRS,
16:18the fun times in golf
16:19do not stop.
16:20A month from today,
16:22we will know
16:22the Ryder Cup teams
16:23for 2025.
16:25The Ryder Cup,
16:26of course,
16:26late September
16:27at Bethpage Black
16:29here on Long Island
16:31in New York City
16:32as Team USA
16:34under the captain
16:34Keegan Bradley
16:35will look to triumph
16:37over Europe
16:38on home soil
16:39once again.
16:40Very exciting times
16:41remain even at the close
16:43of the major championship
16:44season in golf.
16:46All right.
16:47Shall we move on
16:47to the first full weekend
16:49in Major League Baseball
16:50post All-Star break?
16:51Any final golf points
16:52before we transition?
16:54Yeah, by the Ryder Cup,
16:55absolutely sensational.
16:56If you had to rank
16:56like, you know,
16:57golf events, Ben,
16:58I would put the Masters first
17:00because it just feels
17:00like the rite of spring.
17:02You're used to it.
17:02It's the same golf course.
17:03It's legendary.
17:03And I would put
17:04the Ryder Cup number two
17:05before any other
17:06golf tournament
17:07on the planet
17:08at that point.
17:08I really enjoy
17:09the camaraderie specifically,
17:11not from the Americans,
17:11but the Europeans
17:12like galvanizing
17:13and how much it means
17:14for them to win
17:15where it seemed
17:15like for a while
17:16like USA lost its way
17:17like our individuals
17:18were not as a conglomerate
17:20and a joint team
17:21when you always see
17:22like, hey, man,
17:23they drink together.
17:23They smoke together.
17:24They hang out together
17:25and like the team Europeans,
17:27you know,
17:27very fun stuff.
17:28But I love the Ryder Cup,
17:30the pageantry,
17:30the pomp and circumstance
17:31and back at,
17:32you know,
17:32Beth Page
17:33where you know
17:34that New York
17:34influence crowd
17:35will be there.
17:36It's the only sport
17:37where a guy misses a putt
17:39and there's loud roars.
17:41Love the Ryder Cup, man.
17:43We got absolutely blitzed
17:45in Rome.
17:46When I say we,
17:46I mean the United States,
17:48but the last time
17:48it was on home soil,
17:50we absolutely blitzed
17:52the Europeans
17:52up in Wisconsin.
17:54It is going to be
17:55an absolute atmosphere
17:56at Beth Page Black
17:58come late September.
17:59Donnie,
18:00in terms of your list
18:00of golf events,
18:01completely agree.
18:03For me,
18:03it is the Masters
18:04first and foremost
18:05followed by the Ryder Cup
18:06and it's not all
18:07that far behind.
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