There’s nothing like the ultimate main of the golf calendar to show a few of the world’s greatest gamers into philosophers. Particularly when that remaining main is The Open Championship at Royal Birkdale, the place a particularly dried out course is predicted to result in agency fairways and more durable situations.
Heading into this week’s match, the defending Champion Golfer of the 12 months is world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler, who has had a little bit of a rocky season by his extraordinarily excessive requirements, together with a shocking missed reduce on the Genesis Scottish Open final week. However earlier than Scheffler gained final 12 months’s match at Royal Portrush, he famously mentioned “What’s the level of all of it?” when discussing what profitable and on-course success means to win.
Effectively, one thing in regards to the UK should make Scheffler a bit introspective, as a result of he is at it once more this 12 months. When requested about these feedback and whether or not he performs for his legacy or historical past, Scheffler could not resist cracking a little bit of a “morbid” joke about it.
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Scottie Scheffler of america is interviewed on the ninth gap through the Heroes Basic previous to The 154th Open Championship at Royal Birkdale in Southport, England, on July 14, 2026. (Richard Heathcote/Getty Pictures)
“To be fully sincere, probably not. I don’t actually play, like, for a spot in historical past,” he mentioned. “I’m not taking part in for something like that as a result of, that is going to sound a bit morbid, on the finish of the day, I’m going to dwell my life, and it’s going to finish. When it ends, I’m going someplace else, and I’m not going to be right here anymore.
“Is that going to be a quote after final 12 months’s ‘What’s the purpose’? (That) this 12 months (it is going to be) ‘we’re all going to die’?” he added with a smile.
Sure, Scottie, that’s completely going go to be this 12 months’s quote.
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Rory McIlroy had some related sentiments when requested about his ideas on legacy and what he hopes folks will consider him.
Rory McIlroy of Northern Eire appears throughout on the ninth inexperienced throughout a follow spherical earlier than The 154th Open Championship at Royal Birkdale in Southport, England. (Warren Little/Getty Pictures)
“I do not actually care,” he mentioned. “I wish to assume that the those who love and care about me assume a sure approach of me, however yeah, I will be lengthy gone. I will be lifeless. I do not assume I will be seeing what folks say about me. I will be six ft beneath. I do not assume I will be a ghost. I do not assume I will be, you realize, like…yeah, I do not care.”
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The 2 greatest gamers on this planet speaking about demise forward of a serious championship match. Simply what all of us anticipated. And to be truthful, they’re each proper. Legacy and historical past are for others to find out, and worrying about it throughout tournaments may affect their capability to lock in from shot to shot. Golfers particularly have to have the ability to flush their final shot and transfer on to the subsequent. Worrying about their spot in historical past would not lend itself to that mentality.
Scottie Scheffler, left, and Rory McIlroy headline two marquee groupings for the opening rounds of The Open Championship at Royal Birkdale. (Getty Pictures)
Jordan Spieth gained The Open by three pictures at -12 in 2017, the final time the match was held at Royal Birkdale, although scores could also be even decrease this coming weekend. Sure, the course is agency, and can drive gamers to make troublesome selections, however situations are anticipated to be gentle with temperatures within the mid-to-upper 60’s, no rain, and largely mild winds.
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Although on the finish of the day, what distinction does it make, trigger we’re all going to die anyway?
