{"id":15554476,"date":"2024-12-09T18:38:48","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T23:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/golf.com\/?post_type=article&p=15554476"},"modified":"2024-12-10T15:09:15","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T20:09:15","slug":"scottie-scheffler-bob-macintyre-hero-liv-rumors","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/golf.com\/news\/scottie-scheffler-bob-macintyre-hero-liv-rumors\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottie’s common sense, Bob Mac’s sunset beer, LIV rumors | Monday Finish"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Welcome back to the Monday Finish, where we’re starting to think this Scottie Scheffler<\/strong> might have a real future in the game. To the news!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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GOLF STUFF I LIKE<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Appreciating the good stuff.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s natural to look forward. And, I think increasingly, cultural forces have us moving on to the next thing<\/em> even faster than ever. That’s doubly true for athletes, who are likely inspired by some end goal (winning the championship, say) but in order to get there must lose themselves in the process. An athlete’s comfort zone is having something left to prove, some skill yet to master, some distance to the mountaintop left to climb. Actually reaching the summit? That can be tough to process, in its own way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That brings us to Scottie Scheffler<\/strong>, who won again this weekend, this time at the Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas, his ninth worldwide victory this season. He redirected questions about what the victory meant<\/em>, as he’s used to doing by now, insisting that he plays not for money nor legacy but because he enjoys the competition. His is an aspirational outlook; if you’re in it purely for the joy of winning and the love of competing, you can soak up your victories while also looking ahead to the next chance to contend. Bravo, Scottie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The crossroads of accomplishment, satisfaction and winning also brings us to Bob MacIntyre<\/strong>. The 28-year-old Scotsman ended up with a fairy-tale season, but it didn’t begin that way. This was his first full year playing the PGA Tour and it took time to adjust; he initially based himself out of Orlando, Fla. but soon found that untethering and unsatisfying. After several months he moved home to Oban to re-center himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was right around that time that MacIntyre, missing home, brought home to him. He tapped in his father Dougie<\/strong> as a fill-in caddie for the RBC Canadian Open and, sure enough, won the whole damn thing. In the moments after the win I was struck by MacIntyre’s instincts. While CBS interviewer Amanda Balionis<\/strong> understandably assumed he’d then tap in for the following week’s Memorial Tournament, a big-money Tour event for which he was suddenly qualified, MacIntyre shook his head. He was headed home with his girlfriend and his family to celebrate a dream come true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The moment when Dougie MacIntyre starts saying \u201cI\u2019m a grass cutter\u201d and then breaks down \ud83e\udd79 pic.twitter.com\/GHH1zDhjqG<\/a><\/p>— Dylan Dethier (@dylan_dethier) June 2, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote>