Scottie Scheffler explains the mental toll of constant attention
Scottie Scheffler explains how constant attention, cameras and the spotlight impact golfers mentally throughout the season.
Video Transcript
I think the reasons that are hard to define is more just like, you can't win every single golf tournament.
You just, you just can't do it.
Like, nobody's been able to do it.
The, in golf, no matter what, you, you lose a lot more often than you win.
But I think it's more of just, like, mentally, I think especially in this day and age, there's just a lot of noise all the time at, at golf tournaments.
Like, I think golf is unique in a sense, too, of the mental grind that the sport entails and then the There's just a lot more stuff that's going on at tournaments.
Like, for instance, this week, you know, I show up on Sunday thinking there's not gonna be any fans out there, and, we get out there on the first hole and, you know, there's fans out there, which is, I, I love being able to play in front of fans.
Like, that's a tremendous amount of fun.
But, like, I get into the, the bunker on the first hole, and I turn around and within six feet of me, there's literally two cameras, like, right in my face.
And I kinda turn around and look at the guys.
I'm like, "Hey, y'all, like, y'all, y'all gonna be this close all day, or you think we could get, like, a little bit of room?"
And so I think just being in the spotlight all the time just is, puts a different burden on a player in this day and age just because, like, everything is recorded.
Like, when you're walking around, somebody, when they're saying hello to you, they got your cell phone out, and you're Sometimes you can be, like you're walking on eggshells a little bit, and I think that, that can drain people.
But for me, that's why I say I can't play so many tournaments in a row just because of the demands that you have within a given week and being recorded all the time.
You know, I'm, I'm very far from a perfect person and, you know, I'm trying to find the right words, but I think just sometimes it can be hard when you're just being, you know, recorded all the time.
Yeah.
