How does a Masters champion celebrate after winning a first Green Jacket?
If you’re world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler, you buy a bottle of tequila and a cold tub.
What will Scheffler splurge on if he successfully defends his title on Sunday, joining Tiger Woods, Nick Faldo and Jack Nicklaus as the only golfers to win back-to-back Masters?
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Maybe a new car.
“One of our kind of somewhat traditions is buying a bottle of nice tequila after each win, and that’s pretty much the extent of it,” Scheffler said. “I’m sure eventually maybe I’ll get a new car. I don’t know... I haven’t got a new car. Still in the same house.”
“I bought a cold tub. That was a pretty big indulgence. Still not running at home, but we bought it,” he said.
With more than US$33 million in career earnings, including US$2.7 million from his Masters victory, it is not that Scheffler cannot afford to go on a shopping spree.
His lifestyle is a reflection of his golf, unassuming, reliable and unflappable. There is nothing particularly flashy about Scheffler’s game, just rock-solid like a well-built home or car.
While cool, calm and collected on the course, Scheffler is prone to the occasional emotional outburst away from it.
Ahead of last year’s final round Scheffler said he had cried “like a baby” before teeing off.
“I’ll definitely get emotional. I wish I didn’t, but I always do,” said Scheffler after Tuesday’s practice round. “I don’t know what it is.”
No player has won the Masters in consecutive years since Tiger Woods accomplished the feat in 2001-2002.
“Any time you can get mentioned in the same breath as a Tiger and a Jack and a Nick Faldo is really special, but it’s not a motivating factor for me to come out here and play,” Scheffler said. “It’s so special and cool when it happens, but it doesn’t motivate me out here. I’m just trying to come out here and play good golf and have fun.”
“Legacy is just a complicated thing. In a hundred years I’m going to be forgotten and it’s not a big deal,” he added.
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