Scotty Scheffler boring to watch?

[me05501]

True, Scheffler seem a bit robotic on the course.

 

The real issue is the strong impression that there just aren't many thoughts running through his mind at all. 

 

He seems like a blank slate. Every interview or puff piece they do about him seems to underscore the same impression. 

 

He's nice. He's a family man. He's extremely good at golf. This is the entire set of interesting facts about Scottie Scheffler. 

 

 

[me05501]

3 minutes ago, Obee said:

 

Rory is MUCH more exciting to watch. For me.

 

 

How much of that excitement is from the fact that Rory often makes mistakes in crucial situations?

 

I really think that's a factor. 

 

He often seems like he's playing on the razor's edge of his ability. Scottie always seems like he's in third gear. 

 

[TiScape]

11 minutes ago, me05501 said:

 

 

I prefer to say the Lady Vols won. In fact they won that game twice!

Did you attend the U of Tennessee?

[me05501]

8 minutes ago, TiScape said:

Oh please. A HR is a HR! Woulda been a shame to end on that 🐂 💩 ! 
 

Amendment G states it’s not reviewable… So 🤷🏼‍♂️

 

 

🤣

 

Would have been a shame, for sure. The rule is that the player needs to touch all the bases. I'm glad the gods saw fit to get the ending right. 

[me05501]

1 minute ago, TiScape said:

Did you attend the U of Tennessee?

 

Yes, but the Chattanooga campus. Currently paying tuition to UTK for my son. He works for the Vols football team.

[TiScape]

Just now, me05501 said:

 

Would have been a shame, for sure. The rule is that the player needs to touch all the bases. I'm glad the gods saw fit to get the ending right. 

Oh man, the gods are busy w/a softball 🥎 game! 
Well, that does explain a lot! 

[Obee]

Just now, me05501 said:

 

Would have been a shame, for sure. The rule is that the player needs to touch all the bases. I'm glad the gods saw fit to get the ending right. 

Holy crap, what did I miss? Did a team lose on important game because someone missed a base/home plate on (what would have been) a game-winning HR???

 

[TiScape]

Just now, me05501 said:

 

Yes, but the Chattanooga campus. Currently paying tuition to UTK for my son. *He works for the Vols football team.

Oh yes. I remember the post/pic now. Very cool 😊

Best of luck w/beating the long horns. Something we can agree on! 😁

[TiScape]

2 minutes ago, Obee said:

Holy crap, what did I miss? Did a team lose on important game because someone missed a base/home plate on (what would have been) a game-winning HR???

 

Thankfully no! 
 

But it took a almost 15min review to sort it out 

Edited June 2 by TiScape

[m d g]

3 hours ago, mat562 said:

An amazing run of form, but in the nicest possible way, it doesn't feel like it did when Woods was at his best.

 

I don't feel like I'm genuinely watching something historic, or a man who transcends the sport.

 

 

 

With Tiger, people and the media went all-in on the racial angle. I got the impression that Tiger just wanted to play golf.

[Cbfodalo]

Clearly Scheffler is a very good player. You don't win as much as he does without being good. I dont think he is boring, I just think the entire field is so good it's hard for any of top players to really stand out as much as Tiger did.

There are lots of good players today. From 97 -08 tiger woods was just so much better, so much more engaging, and was so daring he made the impossible seam possible. 

 

Todays golf is probabale overall a better product. I do not have data to support this, but I feel like the competition today is much better then 20 years ago. At least in depth of field.  There are so many guys winning tournaments, do current players win 8 or 9 events a season? 

I think, as in most sports, the equipment, conditioning, and training are more advanced today. 

Again, I do not have data to support this, just a thought. 

 

It just seams like none of the really top players are so much better then everyone else in the field. There are a group of guys who are clearly better, but there is not clear star. So perhaps yes Scotty  is boring because they are all pretty boring.  The pga has a very high quality product, the cources are stunning the players are amazing. I love tk watch it.  But it's hard to compare it to almost any late sunday when tiger was on tv. 

[Pepperturbo]

When someone knows his game, plays good golf, is guided by course management, doesn't do hero shots unless needed, and doesn't talk much, he's seen as boring. 

 

I don't play nearly as well as Scotty, but how I tackle golf is similar, I am nearly always in the fairway, make sensible shots, and don't talk much, friends joke I am boring.

[TiScape]

2 minutes ago, Pepperturbo said:

When someone knows his game, plays good golf, is guided by course management, doesn't do hero shots unless needed, and doesn't talk much, he's seen as boring. 

 

I don't play nearly as well as Scotty, but how I tackle golf is similar, I am nearly always in the fairway, make sensible shots, and don't talk much, *friends “joke” I am boring.

Perhaps Pepp. But a WRX legend nonetheless! Joke’s on them buddy 😉 

[Obee]

5 minutes ago, Pepperturbo said:

When someone knows his game, plays good golf, is guided by course management, doesn't do hero shots unless needed, and doesn't talk much, he's seen as boring. 

 

I don't play nearly as well as Scotty, but how I tackle golf is similar, I am nearly always in the fairway, make sensible shots, and don't talk much, friends joke I am boring.

If they joke about it, then you are! 😜

[jmck]

His course/game management is incredibly good, but that's just not exciting stuff.  

 

Take Rory for example.  Dude's never met a sucker pin he didn't want to go for.  Even if he's trying his level best not to, he'll end up hitting like a subconscious pull or push towards it at the last second.  Rory's just about physically incapable of playing boring golf, whereas Scottie's whole entire raison d'être is playing boring golf.  He might be historically good at playing boring golf, but it's still boring golf.  Fairways, greens, two putts.  That's a great way to score, but the kids aren't going to be putting posters of it up on their walls.

[PedronNiall]

34 minutes ago, TiScape said:

I don’t know man. And plz excuse this as it’s a bit “crude”. But Maximus is droppin’ WAY more panties than SS. 

 

Maximus was all business, like Scheffler. Almost no celebration in victory, no pageantry before, during, or after other than exactly what was required, no playing to the crowd, only focus on getting it done. Tigris in his signature helm, doing flourishes with his axes; Tiger in his Sunday red, doing club twirls and chasing shots down. 

 

Scottie has literally said golf is a job to him, like Maximus going through the motions because he has to. Tigris was so dedicated to it that even after being the only gladiator to win enough to retire he came back to the arena when asked. Like Tiger, he couldn't turn away from what he knew even when he didn't have the skill and speed left to be the very best any longer. He couldn't walk away even if it destroyed what was left of him. Whatever he may have felt at the start, in the end he lived for the crowds; reserved and private as Tiger might be, in the end he lived for the crowds and said he missed it when he was away. 

 

It has nothing to do with raw appeal or attractiveness, I'm referencing how they go about their business and what characterizes them.

[TiScape]

1 minute ago, PedronNiall said:

 

Maximus was all business, like Scheffler. Almost no celebration in victory, no pageantry before, during, or after other than exactly what was required, no playing to the crowd, only focus on getting it done. Tigris in his signature helm, doing flourishes with his axes; Tiger in his Sunday red, doing club twirls and chasing shots down. 

 

Scottie has literally said golf is a job to him, like Maximus going through the motions because he has to. Tigris was so dedicated to it that even after being the only gladiator to win enough to retire he came back to the arena when asked. Like Tiger, he couldn't turn away from what he knew even when he didn't have the skill and speed left to be the very best any longer. He couldn't walk away even if it destroyed what was left of him. Whatever he may have felt at the start, in the end he lived for the crowds; reserved and private as Tiger might be, in the end he lived for the crowds and said he missed it when he was away. 

 

It has nothing to do with raw appeal or attractiveness, I'm referencing how they go about their business and what characterizes them.

In my defense, empty stomach, an entire pot of French Roast ☕️!

 

😂

[TiScape]

4 minutes ago, PedronNiall said:

 

Maximus was all business, like Scheffler. Almost no celebration in victory, no pageantry before, during, or after other than exactly what was required, no playing to the crowd, only focus on getting it done. Tigris in his signature helm, doing flourishes with his axes; Tiger in his Sunday red, doing club twirls and chasing shots down. 

 

Scottie has literally said golf is a job to him, like Maximus going through the motions because he has to. Tigris was so dedicated to it that even after being the only gladiator to win enough to retire he came back to the arena when asked. Like Tiger, he couldn't turn away from what he knew even when he didn't have the skill and speed left to be the very best any longer. He couldn't walk away even if it destroyed what was left of him. Whatever he may have felt at the start, in the end he lived for the crowds; reserved and private as Tiger might be, in the end he lived for the crowds and said he missed it when he was away. 

 

It has nothing to do with raw appeal or attractiveness, I'm referencing how they go about their business and what characterizes them.

And sure Maximus n SS are both all business. But the difference is Max’ had mad rizz and SS probably doesn’t even know what that is! 🤣

[st1800e]

1 hour ago, TiScape said:

 

*I also believe the husband on that old genie in a bottle show was replaced. But that was b4 my time. 

Cross referencing “I Dream of Jeannie” with “Bewitched”, unless Larry Hagman had a husband. 😉

[TiScape]

Just now, st1800e said:

Cross referencing “I Dream of Jeannie” with “Bewitched”, unless Larry Hagman had a husband. 😉

🤷🏼‍♂️ He could have and…

[Pepperturbo]

7 minutes ago, Obee said:

If they joke about it, then you are! 😜

Can't count how many times my buddies have said I am boring to play with.  Comes after seeing my Drive land in the fairway over and over, or GIR, plus I don't talk much and won't get into any serous conversations. 

 

Yesterday, when I missed the green by 3', using LW I flipped the ball up to a 6" to tap in par.  Did that 5 times yesterday and holed out once.  I hit a weak drive (shortest of everyone) but landed in the middle of the fairway, then hit a towering 6i over tree tops to in front of green 40yds short of Red pin, LW to 12" tap in.  When we walked off the green, the joke was how boring my golf is.

[Shilgy]

1 hour ago, TiScape said:

Thanks! The answer is BOTH! 😁

 

*I also believe the husband on that old genie in a bottle show was replaced. But that was b4 my time. 

No no no…the husband was replaced on Bewitched.  Cosby the wife was always Phylicia Rashad. Wife was swapped on Fresh Prince.

[TiScape]

Just now, Shilgy said:

No no no…the husband was replaced on Bewitched.  Cosby the wife was always Phylicia Rashad. Wife was swapped on Fresh Prince.

 

[Ferguson]

4 hours ago, mat562 said:

An amazing run of form, but in the nicest possible way, it doesn't feel like it did when Woods was at his best.

 

I don't feel like I'm genuinely watching something historic, or a man who transcends the sport.

 

 

 

As is often the case with @mat562 -  eloquently stated.   

 

 

 

 

[TiScape]

1 minute ago, Ferguson said:

 

As is often the case with @mat562 -  eloquently stated.   

 

 

 

 

Big fan of mat562’s posts, not so much SS…

 

🤣

Edited June 2 by TiScape

[Shilgy]

1 hour ago, MK7Golf21 said:

 

I think a lot of it is how they interact with the media, Dj, Koepka and Scotty are pretty plain jane when it comes to the media. Rory is a bit better with it, been on the late night shows various times etc. Tiger was the best at it, he was a Hollywood figure as much as a golfer.

Tiger was best with the media?🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

 

I loved watching Tiger but when he was playing there were numerous threads and posts referring to how Tiger gave the media nothing but canned answers that gave away nothing.

[Ferguson]

3 hours ago, mosesgolf said:

Watching a winner like Scotty never gets boring.  He doesn’t seem to have a weakness in any parts of his game at the moment.  

 

I would rather watch an afternoon of Bryce Dallas Howard movies then watch Scheffler mosey through a final round. 

 

 

[jimecherry]

1 minute ago, Ferguson said:

 

I would rather watch an afternoon of Bryce Dallas Howard movies then watch Scheffler mosey through a final round. 

 

 

why am i not shocked a guy named moses likes ss golf i mean fairways and greens is the way god intended golf to be played ;}

[Shilgy]

9 minutes ago, TiScape said:

 

It’s two different shows!  The whole family of characters even had a different name.

 

You're saying the Newhart dream was real?🤯

[TiScape]

5 minutes ago, Ferguson said:

 

I would rather watch an afternoon of Bryce Dallas Howard movies then watch Scheffler mosey through a final round. 

 

 

Who wouldn’t?!