The 2024 Masters Champion Scottie Scheffler Chronicles His Second Green Jacket Victory

Now a two time Masters Champion, Scottie Scheffler meets with the media following a masterful 68 in the Final Round of the 2024 Masters.

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Since 1934, the Masters Tournament has been home to some of golf’s greatest moments. Amidst blooming azaleas, towering pines and flowering dogwoods, the first full week of April ushers in a stage unique to golf and to sport. Over four days and 72 holes, the smallest field in major championship golf competes for a chance to capture the Green Jacket and a place in Masters history.

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good evening ladies and
gentlemen it’s a privilege to welcome
our
2024 Master’s Champion Scotty Sheffer
Scotty congratulations on your great
Victory two years after your
breakthrough here at Augusta National
here you are again in a green jacket as
a two-time master’s Champion can you
describe your emotions as you hit your
final putt
today
um yeah glad I brought my my stroke
average my putting average down on 18
that was nice um down to you know five
Strokes two and a half is my average
that’s not bad um no it’s uh it’s hard
to put into words how special this is I
uh it’s been a long week a grind of a
week the golf course was so challenging
and to be sitting here wearing this
jacket again and getting to take it home
is uh is extremely special great let’s
open up the questions John Scotty um two
part question one
I see you’ve got some kinesiology tape
on I assume that’s from your neck and
two how was this Sunday morning
different than the Sunday morning two
years ago yeah the Sunday morning was
definitely different
um yeah instead of just me and Mar at
the house I had a couple my buddies with
me and we sat relaxed um tried not to
think about golf but it was increasingly
difficult um but you know they they were
great support for me this morning um
and uh yeah it was it was a long morning
but it was it was well worth it I’m glad
to be glad to be sitting here now joh
goty many congratulations your Rivals
will be hoping that at some point you’re
going to take the Your Eye Off the Ball
by the time of the next major in a
month’s time you’ll have a baby in your
arms what are the chances that you think
you will take your ey off the ball well
I’m definitely not going to
intentionally take my eye off the ball
um I I will go home soak in this victory
tonight um will definitely enjoy the
birth of my first child but with that
being said um you know I still I still
love competing um my priorities will
change here very soon you know my my son
or daughter will now be the main
priority along with my wife um so golf
will now be you know probably fourth in
line um
but I I still love competing um I don’t
plan on taking my off the ball anytime
soon that’s for sure Doug buy what do
you consider the most important shot you
hit today the most important shot I
would say the the best momentum Turner
that I had today was the birdie putt on
eight I hit two really good shots in
there long of the green I had an
extremely difficult pitch that I hit up
there about you know 10 12 feet from the
cup and it was a challenging read
because it turned early and it was
really straight at the end um so it was
a putt that you really had to start
online and um you know hope it held its
line and you know I poured that one in
and then um you know kind of gave me
some good momentum and I used that to to
birie n and 10 and um you know keep
pushing because I knew I knew there was
birdies out there on the back nine I had
a lot of really talented players trying
to chase me down and um I knew pars
weren weren’t going to get it done can
you explain the difference of of how it
feels emotionally between four putting
the last green and one
putting um one putting is significantly
easier
um yeah I I tried not to let my emotions
get the best of me this time um I kept
my head down I didn’t even I don’t even
think I took my hat off and waved to the
crowd when I was walking up 18 I I I did
my best to stay in the moment I wanted
to finish off the tournament the Right
Way um and I got to soak it in there
after one putting instead of four
putting which was uh which was a little
bit a little bit better Chris Scotty
Colin was talking about how much farther
you were than him on a couple of holes
and how you know much of an advantage
that is do you see it as just a massive
mental Advantage when you’re you know
couple hundred yards or 50 hundred yards
ahead of Colin I mean I don’t know if I
was that far ahead 50 yards 30 yard col
may have exaggerated a little bit but
yeah I I drove the ball really well this
week I was hitting it hard um today was
a day where I was able to to swing
freely and um around this place I mean
distances distance is very important
around this golf course um the fairways
are fairly wide and when the greens are
this firm you have to have short clubs
going into these greens especially with
the the little areas there are to where
they put the pins um and so I would say
I was swinging a bit harder this week
than I would in a normal PJ Tour event
just because there’s a bit more room off
the tea um at a regular tour stop or
US Open or something like that my tea
height may be a little bit lower and I
may be hitting more different types of
shots but a lot of the drives I hit this
week I was just teeing it high and
hitting it hard um that’s pretty much it
man congratulations Scotty I know you
said you kept your head down all day
basically but at any point did you allow
yourself to enjoy the lead you had enjoy
the lead no um I think just like any
human would your mind starts to wander a
little bit out there on the golf course
when we were out there for you know four
or five hours at a time you you got to
let your mind wander um I tried to soak
in stuff around me today I I looked up
at the trees at times I looked up at the
fans occasionally and tried to soak in
you know some of their energy but
um did not ever let myself get attached
to the lead I just try to keep pushing I
mean I think if if I would have played a
little bit defensively it would have
been a significantly different finish
you know I went for the green and two on
13 was able to make birdie I attacked
the pin on 14 was able to make birdie
went for it again on 15 was able to make
a nice par and I hit a really good shot
there into 16 to make birdie and so you
know if I was just trying to play for
pars the whole back nine I would have
been standing there on 18 having to make
par um and hoping ludvig would only make
a par um and so around this golf course
you have to stay aggressive um you have
to hit the right shots there’s no way
there’s no way around it out here you
can’t play too defensive and you can’t
play too aggressive you just got to hit
the right shots and um fortunately today
I was able to do that Sean Martin um you
say constantly your identi is not not in
your golf scores um what is it about
winning and competing then that you find
satisfying you know that’s a really good
question I uh I was sitting around with
my buddies this morning I was I was a
bit overwhelmed because I told him I was
like I wish that I didn’t want to win as
badly as I did or as badly as I do I
think it would make the mornings easier
but I I love winning I hate losing I
really do and when you’re here in the
biggest moments when I’m sitting there
with a lead on Sunday I really really
want to win badly um and my told me this
morning you know my victory was Secure
on the cross and that’s um that’s a
pretty special feeling um to know that
I’m secure for forever and it doesn’t
matter you know whether or not I win
this tournament or if I lose this
tournament um you know my identity is
secure for forever James Scotty I’m
wondering what did you learn about
leading at this golf course from your
previous major Masters went to this one
I I think it’s a difficult Golf Course
to close out a win on I mean there’s
like I said you can’t play overly
defensive like 12’s a good example of um
a hole where if you play overly
defensive like where the pin is today
you’re trying to hit it right over that
bunker um right there in the middle of
the green and if you pull it for a
righty it goes further like you can see
Max home in the group in front of us
maybe pulled his a touch and it flies
into the bushes long I mean I’ve hit in
the bushes long there multiple times um
so you can’t just sit up there and play
overly defensive you have to play to the
correct spot and hit really good golf
shots um um and I did that to the best
of my abilities today and was
fortunately able to hit some really key
shots and um make some nice birdies
there on the back nine um really from
Whole eight on I just I played really
really nice golf
Andy uh you was speaking about your
faith Scotty could you just tell us a
bit about how much it features in your
head when you’re actually out there on
the course does it help you cope with
the sort of visites of the wind and
things like that bad
breaks yeah I mean I believe that
today’s plans were already laid out you
know many years ago and um I could do
nothing to mess up those plans you know
I I’ve been given given a a gift of this
talent and i’ I I use it for God’s glory
um that’s pretty much it so when I’m out
there I try to compete to the best of my
abilities like I said I really want to
win um I feel like that’s how I was
designed I’ve been that way since I was
a young kid um that’s always been a part
of me and I don’t think that should be
going away anytime soon and I don’t
believe there’s anything wrong with that
either but at the end of the day like I
said my identity secure already um and I
get to come out here and compete have
fun enjoy it and then at the end of the
day win or lose my identity secure Kyle
how much do you struggle with just the
idea of discontentment of of needing
whether it’s more wins More Money More
Fame to be satisfied and and when do you
find yourself most
content gosh that’s a good
question um I feel like playing
professional golf is an endlessly not
satisfying career
um for for instance in my head all I can
think about right now is getting home
I’m not thinking about the tournament
I’m not thinking about the Green Jacket
I’m trying to answer your questions I’m
trying to get home um I wish I wish I
could soak this in a little bit more
maybe I will tonight when I get home but
at the end of the day I think that’s
what the human heart does you always
want more and
um I think you got to fight those things
and and focus on what’s good um because
like I said winning this golf tournament
does not change my identity my identity
is secure and I cannot cannot emphasize
that enough Kev you mentioned you know
your life is going to change coming up
what are you looking forward most to
about being a
dad well looking forward to the next
couple weeks hopefully getting a bit of
sleep and then you know a couple months
of probably not getting any
sleep no but I I I mean I’m excited I
think it’s funny when when you get
married a lot of people tend to make
jokes about like oh your life’s over y
ya y um my friends were always very
excited for me to get married but you
get some people off offand just making
jokes and stuff like that when it comes
to having a kid every single person says
that it changes your life and it’s the
most special thing in the world so I
cannot marriage has been such a
tremendous aspect of my life I cannot
even imagine what being a parent is
going to be like Brian and Scotty you
seem like you’re in total control right
now of your game in the zone whatever it
might be how do you feel out there and
do you feel like you’re playing your
best golf right now I feel like I’m
playing really good golf right now
um I feel like I’m in control of my
emotions as I’ve ever been um which is a
good place to be I feel like I’m I’m
maturing as a person on the golf course
which is a good place to be um I think
it’s hard to argue with the results of
the last few weeks I’ve been playing
some really nice golf but I really try
not to focus too much on the past I uh
I’m gonna go home and reflect on this
week and and soak it in as best I can
but um you know like I said it’s not uh
it’s not very satisfying sport because
I’m supposed to teat up again on
Thursday so um back to the Grind pretty
quick Adam Scotty was there anything
Meredith said to you this morning that
helped you and on your way to Victory
today uh she just asked how she could
pray for me and I actually wasn’t able
to talk to her for very long this
morning which was unusual um but you
know she sent a lot of prayers my neck
was bugging me a little bit so you know
prayed for some healing and um you know
just prayed for for me to have a lot of
peace out there uh had a good
conversation with my buddies that were
here this morning about about Victory
and that Victory are being secure
um so yeah yeah it was it was a longer
morning again than anticipated this year
but I I I would say it wasn’t as long as
it was a couple years ago but but still
a long morning that the only time this
week that your neck bothered you this
morning yeah I think it was I think when
you get stressed out I think your body
just reacts to it whether or not it’s a
stomach ache or your body starts aching
I think my body was just reacting to the
stress and
um yeah that’s pretty much it Ryan scti
can you take us back through the
decision that you and Randy made to hire
Phil Kenyan and what that meant to you
at the time and what it means
now after East Lake last year riding
home on the plane and um sitting there
talking to Blake and I we kind of look
at each each other and I think we both
were thinking the same thing and we both
kind of looked at each other I was like
you know I think I want to see a putting
coach and Blake goes I think that’s a
good idea let’s talk to Randy um and I’d
watched Phil before I watched him Coach
players and I I think when you’re out
here for as long as I have been you I
just see stuff and I loved the way that
Phil coached his players um you know you
look at a guy like Fitzy who lines up a
lot of his putts and uses a you know a
putter that has a lot of Swing to it and
then you look at a guy like Keegan
Bradley who Phil also teaches who
doesn’t use a line on the ball uses a
big giant putter with cross-handed he
putts good and so as I watched Phil I
could tell that he was open-minded and
um that’s the type of people I like to
work with and um we kind of hit the
ground running there in the fall and you
know I can’t I can’t speak highly enough
of the decision that Randy also made to
just be open-minded not take an ego to
it just sit there watch us work watch
Phil do his thing Phil is also a guy
that does not have a big ego he just
wants what’s best for his players
players and um you know I’m really
really fortunate to have those two guys
as part of my team um I I can’t it’s
hard to it’s hard to
describe what it’s like you know having
somebody I mean Randy had taught me for
almost 20 years every single aspect of
the game and so for me to have to bring
in somebody else could have been a shot
to his ego and he may not have wanted me
to do it but Randy sat there and he said
you know what I think it’s I think it’s
this is the right time and so we called
Phil and about a week later he came in
and and had a visit we worked for a
couple days and
um yeah now we’re here Mike Keegan in
the back hi Scotty um I just wondered
when you talk about you your own parents
and your upbringing if there was one
thing that from that that you will
definitely use when you become a father
and also how long you think you’re going
to leave it until you put a plastic Club
in the baby’s
hand um
I guess starting with my upbringing you
know my parents always wanted what’s
best for me um I swear my dad I think
would would lay in front of traffic if
it means that I wouldn’t get a scratch
on my arm I mean he would he would die
for any of his kids I mean both my
parents would there’s there’s such
special people um and so first and
foremost I think how much love they had
for us growing up I
mean that’s what I’m looking forward to
most I think about being a parent is
being able to love love my child like
like my parents love me
um how long will it take me to put a
plastic clove in my my kids hands um you
know it’s funny I I watch my nephew a
lot my my older sister had her first
child and he turns two in June and some
people want to be like their parents and
some people don’t want to be like their
parents and Hayes is a kid that wants to
be just like his dad and his dad loves
grass and I got a video from my sister
the other day of Hayes following his dad
around in the backyard with his dad was
mowing the lawn and Hayes was following
him with his plastic lawn mower and
Andrew loves to play golf Hayes loves to
play gol off um what’s my kid going to
like who the heck knows um who knows
what they’ll pick up on but whatever it
is um you know I’m just I just want to
be there to support them it doesn’t
matter what they’re doing Jeffrey body
when you look across your your game and
the week as a whole what do you think he
did
best I would say the two aspects of my
game that were probably the best were
were short game and driving I think um
probably short game being the most I
mean just looking at a day like today um
first two holes or first three holes
really for that matter first hole Teddy
and I got the wind completely wrong um I
hit a good shot and we missed our Target
by like 25 yards and that’s the kind of
stuff that happens around here but I was
hit a nice chip up there to about four
or five feet knocked it in number two we
get the win wrong again um didn’t hit a
great shot I didn’t hit that bad of a
shot it should have still been on the
green um and instead I air M now I’m in
a really tough spot and hit another
really good pitch to about four or five
feet and then on number three um hit a
good drive ends up there in the bunker
and it’s not an easy bunker shot you’re
going up the slow Direction but the
bunker is extremely deep and hit a great
bunker shot in there about three feet
knock that in um so I’d say I think
probably the short game was was was most
important Steve congratulations you are
doing some remarkable things right now I
know it’s a humbling game but uh you
haven’t had one round overpower the
entire year uh you win your second major
here can you talk about what’s allowing
you to to play so well you talk to the
other golfers they say you’re here and
the rest of them start there do you
sense that you’re doing something
different and something special right
now I try not to to think about the past
or the future too much I I love trying
to live in the present
um I’ve had a really good start to the
year and I hope that I can continue on
this this path that I’m on
um I’m going to continue to put in the
work that’s that’s got me here I
uh I mean yeah that’s pretty much it I’m
just going to continue to put in the
work keep my head down um I like when I
step up on the tea at a tournament being
able to tell myself that I did
everything I could to play well and the
rest isn’t up to me and so when I step
on the te next week um you know I’m
going to be thinking about the
preparation what it took to get there
and I’m going to go out and just try and
play as freely as possible are any of
these things impressive to you for
example the no rounds overp par this
year I mean no rounds overp par is great
I mean I hate shooting overpar I can’t
tell you how much I hate shooting over
par so it’s nice to have to not
experience that yet this year clar hi
Scotty have you talked to Meredith yet
and what was her setup for watching
today I I did FaceTime her Al although
it was very brief um she was at her
aunt’s house they just built a new house
in Dallas where she actually stayed most
of this weekend um and so they had a
nice nice little group there watching I
saw maybe seven or eight people um in
the background but honestly my head’s
been spinning since I got off the the
tea I can’t even really tell you who was
in that in the film or in the video
other than other than
Meredith just a couple more questions uh
let’s go to
Reeves first of all Scotty right back
here to your left congratulations second
of all when you take a look back at your
win here in 2022 and your win here today
what stands out most to you between
getting your first green jacket and your
second other than just adding a green
jacket to the collection yeah I think I
think when I look at the tournament from
two years ago um I built myself a lead
on Friday afternoon and was able bble to
I mean Cruise isn’t really the right
word for how it went over the weekend
but I was able to just play with the
lead and play comfortably whereas this
week I felt like I was battling the
whole week um you know you go out go out
there on Thursday and it’s so windy and
was able to shoot a great score um and
then the next two days were really just
a fight I mean I was fighting this golf
course the last couple days I
mean I think it was Friday afternoon we
went out I can’t even describe to you
how difficult the conditions were I mean
I hit driver three iron so 15 was was
into the wind on Thursday and I had
driver three iron on the green 15 was
into the wind again today and I had
driver four iron onto the green and I
took some off the four iron on Friday
afternoon I hit driver three iron and I
had 70 yards left to the pin I mean it
was insane how windy it was and it was
just a battle it was a long week you
know I had to battle some up and ups and
downs and um you know I’m just I’m very
fortunate to be sitting here but yeah it
was it was definitely a different type
of week and last question
Andy Scotty when you got on the back
nine was there any point where where you
decided no matter what I’m not
leaving even if you got a call oh oh I
was like what are you talking
about of course I’m not leaving no no
you know I guess that’s a that’s a
testament to what good a how good of a
headp space I was in I I wasn’t thinking
about that much I was doing my best to
stay in the moment stay calm execute
shots I was I was very focused out there
today um I feel like I did a really good
job you know Teddy did a great job of
making sure that we kept the golf course
in front of us you know I didn’t get off
to the the best start but had some key
up and downs and you know Teddy once
again did a great job of of keeping me
in it and um yeah we we we had a great
week well Scotty before we go could you
take us through which clubs you use when
you made your birdies and Bogies today
so we have that for the historical
record
okay birdies and Bogies so number three
I use a driver and a lob wedge and a
putter um no I uh and then I bogey on
four I hit a three iron over the green
um parred five par six seven was unusual
because I hit driver four iron lob wedge
and then missed the putt for power um
number eight was driver three iron lob
wedge number nine was driver lob wedge
10 was driver pitching wedge um 11 was a
bogey that was driver seven iron lob
wedge um 13 was driver four iron 14 was
three-wood wedge um 16 was a eight iron
and then the yeah those bars great okay
well Scotty thank you and
congratulations on your incredible
second Masters thanks y’all appreciate
it thank you guys see you