🔥 Scottie Scheffler on Ryder Cup Redemption, Bryson’s Energy & Playing for Team USA 🇺🇸⛳

World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler sat down ahead of the 2025 Ryder Cup to reflect on lessons from Rome, his bond with teammates like Bryson DeChambeau and Sam Burns, and the pride of representing the United States on home soil. Calm but confident, Scheffler emphasized that expectations and outside pressure don’t drive him—his focus is preparation, passion for the game, and giving his best for Team USA.

He also opened up about learning from past defeats, the influence of putting coach Phil Kenyon, and the special motivation that comes from competing in front of a New York crowd with the President of the United States in attendance. With Scheffler leading the charge, the Americans are determined to bounce back and reclaim the Ryder Cup.

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going to go ahead and jump right into questions right here. Go ahead, Tom. Morning, Scotty. I know you were asked this a couple weeks ago, but how much motivation was what happened two years ago in Rome, not just well, what the motivation for here, but what it’s been through the the last two years. Uh, I don’t know if motivation’s really the right word. I think you can learn from, you know, your wins and your losses. And I’ve had some some nice wins out here and I’ve had some some tough losses as well. And um I think you can always learn from those experiences. And I think that would be the best way that I could describe it is how much I learned from the experience in Rome, how much I learned from the experience at Whistling Straits. And um I feel like I’m, you know, I have a large bank of knowledge over the course of my career that I can use to my advantage, especially when when things get tough. And um you know, I don’t think it can be understated how difficult of a week Rome was for us. you know, I think we could have done better for sure. That that wasn’t how I expected the week to go and, you know, I think we learned from it and um you know, we’re we’re as prepared as ever this time. Mark on two, please. Hey, Scotty. Um, you don’t see Bryson around that often, obviously, other than the majors. Uh, I’m just kind of curious what your take is on him as a as a teammate and, uh, and how explosive he can be for your team this week. Yeah, I mean, I think Bryson, he’s a tremendous competitor. He’s he’s a great partner as well. I I partnered with him in in 2021 at Whistling Straits and he was a tremendous guy to be out there on the golf course with. He’s a he’s a great guy. He’s a good friend and um you know, he’s been he’s been great in our team room. Like you said, he he brings a lot of energy. Um the people love him and I think he he he loves the opportunity to be able to represent his country. You know, he means a multiple time US Open winner and yeah, you know, that means means a lot to him and um being an American I think means a lot to him as well and I’m excited to kind of unleash him this week. Just one quick follow, unrelated. Uh, nobody knows Sam Burns as well as you do. What makes him such a good putter? Is it technique? Is it belief? What is it about him? Well, he’s got he’s got really sound technique. I mean, his fundamentals are really good. He works on them daily. But Sam, I think, does a good job of being free over a putt as anybody I’ve ever seen? I mean, I’ve I’ve talked to him about the way he reads greens and, you know, he does his aimoint stuff, but it’s almost not even like he doesn’t do aim point like everybody else does aim point. kind of gets an idea and then he just does what he thinks he should and he does it time and time and time again. And um his consistency with a putter is I mean it’s pretty amazing because you get guys that’ll have really good putting years and they’ll be up on top of the list but Sam year in year out is right up on top. To Doug on six. Scotty, should the um should the expectations of you be any different than any other player on the team? And whatever your answer is, if you could elaborate as much as you can, I would really appreciate it. Um, should the expectations of me be different than any other player? I mean, I don’t really think about that kind of stuff. I mean, if that’s something that you want to write about, then more power to you. Um, I don’t I don’t think I have any I don’t think about expectations. I don’t that I don’t bother with that kind of stuff because it’s unimportant to me. I what I focus on when I show up to tournaments is my preparation and I have prepared for this tournament. I’m ready to go out and compete. When I step up there on Friday, I can tell myself on the first two that I did every last little thing that I could in order to play well and it’s time to go do what I love to do and that’s compete and have fun. And um you know, I’m excited to be able to play in front of a home crowd, but I truly don’t think about expectations or anything like that. It’s uh that’s wasted space in my brain. We’re here on Mike 7. Scotty, you’re going to have a ton of home support obviously here this week, including from the president of the United States. He’s going to be making a visit. How do you think it feels for you and the guys to have him here? Yeah, I think our team as a whole is very we’re very proud to be Americans. I think the the flag means a lot to us and um being here in New York um I think is very special as well. and to have the president here is um you know I think it’s been it’s been a tough few weeks for our country with some of the stuff that’s been going on and um you know to have our president here and for us to be able to represent the United States of America albeit in a golf tournament is extremely important to us and we’re excited to to be here on home soil with a home crowd and um we’re ready to to get this tournament started. Alex Meli here. Hey Scotty, could you talk about when Tiger was on these teams, it was always hard for the captain to pair somebody with him because he was the world number one. Everybody looked up to him. I’m suggesting maybe that in some ways that’s where you fall this year in this team. Have you thought about the difficulty of pairing somebody with you and how you might want to react because you are the world number one and because you are the guy that people are going to look up to? You know, I think on our team, I think we have we have 12 guys that are all equal. I don’t think one player is more important than another. And um I think that is something that is through our team room. And I’d like to think that I’m not difficult to pair with people. I like to think myself as a nice guy and someone that’s easy to get along with. And um I’ve had different partners over the years and have had some success. And um I would definitely not not put myself in that category. I think maybe some of the difficulty you have of playing with Tiger. Um, I mean, I don’t even know what it could be. It could it could just be the the aura that was Tiger Woods. I mean, there was some times there where he was doing nothing but winning golf tournaments and just beating the absolute crap out of people time and time again. And um, I couldn’t tell you what was difficult for those partners because I wasn’t there. Um, for me, I’d like to think I’m an easy guy to pair with. Um, so so you don’t think there’s an aura of being Scotty Sheffller? Not really. I don’t have much to elaborate on that. You know, it’s uh Yeah. Up to Ian on 19. Scotty, you you raised quite a few eyebrows with your comments at the Open Championship in terms of what golf overall means to you as a as an individual and how quickly you move on from the triumphs. I just wonder if that dynamic is altered in any way when you’re playing for your country as you are at a Ryder Cup. Yeah, I think what what I was trying to say at the Open Championship is that immediately after a tournament ends, there’s this like euphoric feeling of actually winning the golf tournament, but it just doesn’t really last that long. I have a deep sense of satisfaction and pride in what I’ve been able to accomplish in this game. You know, this game means a lot to me. I never even really liked the saying, you know, it’s just a game because I mean, for the amount of work it takes for me to come out here and play golf, this is a lot more than just a game to me. This is something that’s very important to me. This is essentially my life’s work right now. You know, this is this is what I spend. If I’m not with my family, I’m thinking about golf. I’m thinking about how to get better. I’m I wish that I could turn my brain off to something else. And sometimes when you get home, I have to find new hobbies or new things to become obsessed with because if not, I’m just going to be thinking about golf literally all the time. And so when it comes to playing for team and playing for country, I don’t really have to change much because I think my passion for the game of golf runs so deep. My passion for my country runs so deep that when it comes to these team events, it’s just another way to continue to be motivated, to work hard, to want to get the most out of myself, and to to be a good friend and be a good teammate to the guys on this team because um the RDER Cup is it’s a really special event and it’s something that we’re very excited for and um like I said, we take a lot of pride in being Americans and um we’re excited to to play for our country this week and um play in front of a home crowd. And could I just follow up on that? Obviously, this is the first time that the American players are receiving the the stipend to go with the charitable uh giving. What what’s your stance on on on that particular issue? Um on that particular issue? Yeah. Well, in terms of are you keeping the stipend? Is it going to charity? What what are you doing there? Um I don’t know if we’ve met before, but I’m my wife and I we like to do a lot of stuff in our local community and I’ve never been one to announce what we do. Um, I don’t like to give charitable dollars for some sort of recognition and we have something planned for the money that we’ll be receiving and um, you know, I think it’s a really cool thing that the PJ of America has empowered us to do. I have a deep passion for the city of Dallas. I have a deep passion for the organizations that that we support at home and I’m excited to be able to take this money and be able to do some good in our local community. Let’s go over to Rex on five. Got it. Just before Rome, you started working with Phil Kenyan. How would you characterize how comfortable you are with the work that you two are doing now versus then? How would I characterize it? Um, I feel like when we were in Rome, I mean, I yeah, when we were in Rome, I had only been working with Phil for a few weeks. So I had called him after the uh after the tour championship and we had started working on some stuff and um it was really I think fresh then where now we have a body of work of you know basically two years of trial and error and have some results to look back on and kind of see the progress that we’ve made and um I think just in a really comfortable position with where my game’s at. you know, Phil has been tremendous for me. Um, keeping things simple, keeping my mind clear, and I just have so much confidence in what we’re working on. Whereas, I think two years ago in Rome, the relationship was just so fresh. You’re almost kind of testing things out, if that, if that makes sense. Just because Phil was really the first coach that I’ve ever I’d ever seen outside of outside of Randy. Over here on Mike 8, please. Hi, Scotty. Uh, when the president went to the Yankees recently, he actually went into the clubhouse and addressed the players. is I just wondered if you had any plans to have or if you have or have any plans for meet him before or with Um I personally don’t have any plans. Um you know the president’s kind of funny he he loves the game of golf. He loves supporting um supporting golfers and I get a call or a text from him sometimes after wins and um he just loves the game of golf and he’s one of those guys when you’re around him um you know he does such a good job of like almost like feeding confidence into everybody around him. That was one of the things I noticed a lot with the the little bit of time I spent him is um he treats everybody the same and treats people with the utmost respect. And um whether you’re the person serving us lunch or the caddy on the golf course or the guy who’s the president of the club that we’re at, he treats everybody like they’re the greatest person in the world. And um I don’t think he has any plans to address us as a team. But um I’m sure if things go well, we’ll hear from him this week. Are you able to give us any insight into what he says when you when he calls you? All right, great job. We got time for one more quick one. We’ll go right here. Mike 13, please. Scotty, I’m sure you’re relatively satisfied with your career since Rome, but what do you remember particularly about that game against Victor and Ludvig? And do you do you take a layer of scar tissue from that? Is there a score to be settled? I mean, what would be your memories of that day in particular? Um, I think satisfied is also a very dangerous word to use when you’re talking about your career in the game of golf. Um, I would say even after tournaments that I win, I think satisfaction is something that doesn’t really creep into my mind. Uh, I’m a perfectionist at heart and um, I think that’s what’s so great about the game of golf. That’s what I love about it is there’s literally always something that you can improve on. And so that’s what I focus on day in day out. There’s always little things that we’re working on, little things that I’m trying to improve. And in terms of the the match with um Victor and Levig, do I carry anything from it? No. I mean, I lost a point. It was a tough day. Um came back the next day, played my best, ended up having a having a match with Rom and um we ended up losing the cup. And like I said, there’s always things you can learn from those experiences. And I I don’t use them. I think motivation is a weird word to use. I think satisfaction is definitely a dangerous word to use in terms of golf. And um I have my motivation has always been internal and um you know like I said I love being able to practice and play and you’re always trying to work on something in the game of golf and it’s like a it’s like a puzzle that can never be solved and um I think that’s what excites me. That’s what excites me about coming to these weeks and um you know like I said I’m just excited for the week to get started. Is there a part of you though that would quite like to draw them again? Um I’m really excited to play whoever I’m going to be going up against. It’s going to be a fun week. You know, like I said, we’re playing in front of a home crowd. There’s there’s nothing better than this type of competition where you’re out there with your partner, you’re playing for your country, you’re playing for your team, and um these are the weeks that when you look back on your career, these are the weeks so far that that I remember the most. I have some of my best memories of my whole life playing these tournaments. And um like I said, I’m just excited for Friday to get started. Thanks for your time, Scotty. We appreciate it. Thanks, y’all.