Scottie Scheffler is an example for Christian parents on getting priorities right

“Winning a golf tournament is not the be all and end all to me.” 

Most Pro Golfers don’t start the week of golf’s oldest and most prestigious championship by reflecting on how little fulfilment comes from winning a major. Certainly no one expected to hear that from the World No.1 but that is exactly what a room full of journalists heard from Scottie Scheffler on the eve of the British Open in Portrush last week.

This response came after a journalist asked Scheffler “What would be the longest you’ve ever celebrated something and what was the most crushing loss?” Scheffler responded by saying “it feels like you work your whole life to celebrate winning a tournament for a few minutes. It only lasts a few minutes, that kind of euphoric feeling. And to win the Byron Nelson Championship at home. I literally worked my whole life to become good at golf, to have an opportunity to win that tournament. And you win it, you celebrate. You get to hug your family, my sister is there. It’s such an amazing moment. And then it’s like – OK, now what are we going to eat for dinner?”

This is a man who understands that golf wins are fleeting, the pursuit like chasing the wind, so he fixes his eyes not on what is seen but on what is unseen and eternal

Scheffler went on to say he wasn’t here to ……