Scottie Scheffler was each humorous and frank together with his replies because the world’s top-ranked golfer spoke to the media forward of the defence of his crown on the Hero World Problem that started at Albany on Thursday,
The American, who reaped it wealthy in 2024, mentioned that there wouldn’t be a lot of a change to his preparations after such an unbelievable 12 months.
“As 2024 went fairly nicely, it’s extra of simply persevering with to enhance on and improve the issues that we’ve labored on for years now. Getting higher will not be one thing that occurs in a single day. It takes plenty of time and I nonetheless really feel like there are areas of my sport that I can proceed to enhance with out making drastic modifications to the DNA of what I do”, mentioned Scheffler.
Queried on his views on the studies of People being paid for his or her providers within the Ryder Cup, Scheffler mentioned he had no downside with the concept however added that he was not within the sport for the cash.
“So far as I’m involved, I don’t play golf for cash. I’ve been taking part in golf my entire life without cost and the cash’s only a bonus. If any person desires to pay us to return out and play, that’s nice. I’m not going to say no to it.
“I’m going to do the very best I can in my neighborhood to steward that cash nicely,” was the matter-of-fact response from a star who led the Tour in earnings this 12 months, raking in additional than $29 million in prize cash.
On the similar time, he additionally echoed Irishman Rory McIlroy’s view that gamers have been greater than keen to pay to be a part of the workforce within the biennial competitors between USA and Europe.
(The author is in Bahamas on the invitation of Hero MotoCorp)