As Scottie was celebrating his newfound win, son Bennett—born last year to Scheffler and his high school sweetheart, Meredith—tried to make his way to Dad across the 18th green at Royal Portrush. And, well, the one-year-old struggled a bit.

Scottie Scheffler’s odds of winning the British Open got better and better until he finally secured the claret jug at Royal Portrush.

Scheffler not only gained strokes on Royal Portrush’s greens—more than 8.5 to be specific—he excelled. He finished four rounds ranked second in the field in SG/putting. While many will recall his dialled iron shots and pin-high approach play, there’s little doubt his improved putting was the difference this time around.

Scottie Scheffler saw an early eight-shot lead cut to five strokes during the final round of the British Open at Royal Portrush on Sunday, but remained on the brink of a first Claret Jug.Shane Lowry,

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The somewhat contradictory answer was that golf does fulfill Scheffler, along with his family, but that if the game ever affected his role as a husband and father he'd quit on the spot. Family matters the most to him, so he ends up asking himself the same question at tournament after tournament: