A few days before this ran, Scottie gave a press conference at the 2025 Open Championship that kind of broke the internet. Asked what winning actually means to him, he went on this long, totally unscripted riff about how chasing trophies isn’t fulfilling — “it’s fulfilling from the sense of accomplishment, but not from the deepest places of your heart” — and that if golf ever got in the way of his family, that’d be the last day he played for a living. The clip blew up. Some outlets called it one of the most candid press conferences in golf history; others (the New York Times reportedly nicknamed him “Nihilist Scottie”) read it as bleak out of context. Either way, he won the tournament four days later with his wife and baby son waiting for him — and we leaned all the way into it.
