Scottie Scheffler Shares How He Balances Being The Fiercest Of Competitors As A Humble Man Of Faith

Scottie Scheffler is the top-ranked player in the world and has been operating at a level of greatness on the golf course we haven't seen since Tiger Woods in the early 2000s. After winning the 2024 Masters, Scheffler finds himself on a run of four consecutive starts where he has lost to just one player while earning over $12.6 million in just a month's time.

One doesn't accomplish those things without being a ruthless competitor who is addicted to winning. Scheffler very clearly carries that mindset that he wants to dominate every facet of the game of golf, but has spoken on numerous occasions, including just days before his second victory at Augusta National, that golf is very much not his identity.

After slipping on the green jacket for the second time, Scheffler explained that golf would soon become the fourth priority in his life behind his Christian faith, his wife, and soon-to-be born first child. Nevertheless, there can be this stigma that a person of faith can't simultaneously carry themselves as a ruthless competitor, but Scheffler embodies both of those things.

Scottie Scheffler Balances His Faith And His Competitiveness

Following his four-shot win at the Masters, he joined the ‘Bible Caddie’ podcast and explained how he manages being one of the fiercest competitors in professional golf while also being a humble man of faith. 

"I feel like God kind of created me with a little bit of extra competitiveness," Scheffler began. "Since I was a kid, whatever we were doing I always wanted to be the best that I could be at that thing. Whether we were playing sports or sometimes even in school, I wanted to be the smartest kid in the class, the best basketball player, the best this. So I feel like I was created an extra-competitive guy, and I don't think that's a bad thing."

"It can become a bad thing when I'm looking to whatever it is for that satisfaction. So, when I'm out there playing golf, for those five hours I'm out there on the golf course, I'm competing to the best of my abilities, but when the round is over you take your hat off, shake hands, and we're friends again. But when we're out there competing, I'm competing to the best of my abilities and I don't think it's a bad thing at all to be extremely competitive as long as you're gracious in winning and in defeat."

Scheffler experienced both the emotion of faithfulness and competitiveness on Sunday at Augusta National.

After he found the winner's circle, he explained that he was anxious prior to his afternoon tee time, but a buddy staying with him calmed his nerves by reminding him that his victory had already been secured on the cross. That put him in a peaceful mindset until he put the tee in the ground on the first hole prior to going to work and making things look far easier than they were en route to major victory number two.