Yes, while taking the lead at the age of five, he turned 18th Green Sunday into a comedy worthy of his childhood’s Rockland County mini-golf over the Hudson River. He had done so hard and for such a long time over 71 ¹ / 2 exhausting holes in a brutal course, he decided to relax, break this steel grip in his concentration and have fun. Scheffler snatched his mouth with a parody of horror after his third losing sport, inspiring the gallery to stand up and cheer for him and successfully place this fourth double boot in the cup. But man, the kid never won. “I will give myself a free pass for that,” Scheffler said wearing the green jacket. He has a free pass at Augusta National forever now, as the first Jersey Boy champion. As it turned out, the road to a 10-under goal and a three-year victory over Rory McIlroy was not as easy as it seemed. On Saturday night, Scheffler watched some reruns of the 4th season of his favorite show, “The Office,” after throwing his dinner in the car on the way home, much to the delight of his wife, Meredith. The next morning, however, was a completely different story. It was then that his weight to keep the lead of the Masters from Friday fell on him. Scottie Scheffler poses with the Masters trophy. Getty Images “I cried like a baby this morning,” Scheffler said Sunday night. “I was so anxious. I did not know what to do.” He had won three PGA Tour events in the last two months and was already a certified Ryder Cup hero, yet for the first time in his career Scheffler collapsed before one final round. He told Meredith that he was not ready for the challenge, that he felt depressed. She gave her husband a pleasant chat, made him a hearty breakfast, and Scott calmed down when he arrived at the office. “This golf course and this tournament are just different,” Scheffler explained. He conquered it anyway, showing the public no fear in the process. Seventeen years after the day after Tiger Woods plunged his magical, mysterious chip-in into the 16th to win his fourth green jacket, Scheffler sank his own into the third hole to win his first while spending the week wearing Tiger shirts and shoes and waving the Tiger. irons. Cameron Smith, a strong winner of the Australian Players’ Championship, had turned the three-year deficit into a one-year deficit in the first two holes and seemed to be squeezing the leader hard. Scottie Scheffler in the 18th green. REUTERS The chip-in defined 25-year-old Scheffler as a study in a big game. When the victory was secured, Scheffler’s father, Scott, began collecting memories from his son’s youth – hitting snowballs at 9W and later in the icy darkness of the nine-hole Orchard Hills class at Bergen Community College. Scott was standing near a torchbearer with a flashlight near his daughters, and Scott was throwing a few sticks right at them. “He was yelling at us when he hit it,” Scott said. “It would hit the girls.” The course manager fired the Schefflers more than once, at least until Scott persuaded the man to take action on his son’s game. “Then it didn’t bother us anymore,” Scott said. The father learned to move away from the flag with his flashlight as his son aimed. Scottie Scheffler sinks to final place as he wins the Masters. EPA What a special trip to New Jersey / New York. Born in Ridgewood, NJ, Scottie was 4 years old when he first started asking his father to take him to the old 9W drive. A Navy veteran and professional named George Kopak ran the area and could not believe the strength and accuracy of the young Scotty swing. On angry winter days, Kopac would leave a Super Jumbo-sized bucket for the boy behind the shed and make sure a rubber T-shirt and a lawn mat were cleared of snow. The routine was simple: Scottie hit balls for hours in an otherwise closed area, and members of the Kopac family picked them up after the snow melted. So, of course, a month after George’s death at the age of 88, all the Copas were stuck on their televisions on Sunday in Rockland. “I wish my dad was here to see what a wonderful man Scottie has become,” Kathy Kopac wrote in The Post. “Many tears of joy were shed for Scotty today. I know my dad is up there and he says, “I knew he could do it.” ” Scottie did it because his father, Scott, was a devoted father who lived at home, while his mother worked tirelessly as an executive at a Manhattan law firm and then as a COO law firm in Dallas. The son of a car salesman, Scott raised a public order child in a town (Englewood Cliffs, NJ) determined by the standard of living on a private track. “We were the dead ends,” Scott said. He was a tough basketball player in the legendary high school of St. Cecilia, where once lived a football coach named Vince Lombardi. He raised a child tough enough to win the Golf Super Bowl. “He’s just a nice little kid who was born in New Jersey and raised in Texas, and he has a little bit of both, which is great,” Scott said of his boy. “It simply came to our notice then. It’s public now, which is a little scary. But he will represent himself well. “ Don’t worry, Scottie Scheffler already has it.
