Scheffler <\/a>admits he has no idea how his rival must feel having achieved a lifetime goal, but gave a fascinating comparison into his own emotions following victory at last month\u2019s PGA Championship which backed up two wins at The Masters.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0_2025-PGA-Championship-Round-Two.jpg\")
(Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\n
He explained: \u201cThere\u2019s definitely an aspect of having an achievement that you\u2019ve thought about for a long time and then being able to achieve that goal. Winning a major championship in general just takes a lot out of you. I think physically and mentally it\u2019s a pretty taxing thing to do. It\u2019s really hard to describe to somebody that hasn\u2019t really lived through it.<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean, when I woke up after the PGA Championship this year, I literally felt like I got hit by a bus. Like I felt terrible. And it\u2019s just part of the adrenaline, part of competing for four days on a really difficult golf course, keeping your head in it for 72 holes, which is a long time, and just mentally it\u2019s exhausting. Physically it\u2019s a grind too.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo if that\u2019s how I felt after the PGA, I can only imagine how Rory felt after winning the career Grand Slam and it\u2019s not easy to show up every week out here and play well. This is a very difficult sport. We play very difficult golf courses like this one.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re all out here just trying to do our best, it\u2019s a hard game and sometimes it can look easy and sometimes it can feel really difficult, but at the end of the day, we\u2019re just showing up trying to do our best and then we go home.\u201d<\/p>\n
Scheffler, meanwhile, also addressed his tasty exchange with coach Randy Smith which caught attention at Oakmont.<\/p>\n
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Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy(Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\n
The World No.1 didn\u2019t hide his US Open frustrations after struggling on Friday and headed straight from the course after his media duties to hit a load of balls and work on his game.<\/p>\n
Cameras caught an expressive Scheffler looking to have a feisty conversation with his coach Randy Smith as they sought solutions to the issues with caddie Teddy Scott in attendance.<\/p>\n
The Ryder Cup star got something out of it as he stayed in title contention through Saturday with an outside chance of catching leader and mate Sam Burns to win the crown and back-up his PGA title triumph with a fourth Major victory.<\/p>\n
Scheffler spoke out on the range-session after round three and explained: \u201cYeah, I would say in terms of a practice session after the round, that was pretty regular. We\u2019re just trying to figure stuff out out there.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo be honest with you, we left the range, I felt like I didn\u2019t figure anything out. Just one of those days where just the swing wasn\u2019t there.<\/p>\n
\u201cRandy had some thoughts for me that definitely helped today, but I\u2019m going to go hit a few more balls and see if we can figure something out.<\/p>\n
\u201cBrooks [Koepka] made some comments this week about his coach kind of getting in his grille. When have you that consistency and you have long-term relationships, there\u2019s a lot more trust that gets built up between people and a true friend is somebody that is there for you when you need them, but also they\u2019re not going to just be a yes-man, they\u2019re there to help you become the best version of yourself and especially when you look at a team.<\/p>\n
\u201cRandy\u2019s job is to help me become the better golfer. Randy\u2019s got a lot of other roles, but at the end of the day, as a golf coach your job is to help me become a better player and sometimes that\u2019s getting in my grille and then other times it\u2019s putting his arm around me and telling me it\u2019s okay.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think when you have those long relationships like that, there\u2019s a lot of trust that gets built up and you\u2019re able to say some things that you wouldn\u2019t really say in the first six months of working with somebody.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn terms of just your development as a player and a person, I think that consistency with the people around you is really important.<\/p>\n
\u201cSam\u2019s got a coach that he\u2019s had for a long time and you look at something like me getting frustrated on the range with my coach Randy, Sam\u2019s definitely been in that position before and it\u2019s just one of those deals.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you have the trust between people that you\u2019re almost like a family; you\u2019ve worked together for so long. I think that\u2019s how his team feels as well. When you have the great relationships with people, they\u2019re able to pick you up when you need to be picked up, need to be picked up, and then they\u2019re there to kind of keep you in line when things are not going the way they should be and if your attitude\u2019s a little bit off.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve had a pretty good stretch the last month and I felt well-rested coming into this week. Golf is a funny game, and for me to be sitting where I am this week not having really my best stuff I think is pretty good.\u201d<\/p>\n
Scheffler has a long road back, but said: \u201cAround this place, anything can happen. Do I feel like I\u2019m out of the tournament? No.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"World No.1 sticks up for his struggling rival as McIlroy struggles post-Masters glory 09:23, 15 Jun 2025Updated 10:22,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4106],"tags":[2826,4287,4321,4288,79,4364,16,15,18056],"class_list":{"0":"post-186883","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-rory-mcilroy","10":"tag-ryder-cup","11":"tag-scottie-scheffler","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-the-masters-golf","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-us-open-tennis"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114688548296778310","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Randy Smith (left) and Scottie Scheffler were at loggerheads on the range <\/p>\n