AUGUSTA, GEORGIA - APRIL 10: Scottie Scheffler is awarded the Green Jacket by 2021 Masters champion Hideki Matsuyama of Japan during the Green Jacket Ceremony after he won the Masters at Augusta National Golf Club on April 10, 2022 in Augusta, Georgi AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) - Scottie Scheffler looked like a Masters champion even before he slipped into his green jacket, the model of calm as he methodically worked his way around the most stressful course in major championship golf.Sunday morning was different.
That turned out to be the toughest test he had all day."I cried like a baby this morning. I was so stressed out. I didn’t know what to do," Scheffler said after winning his first major. "I was sitting there telling (wife) Meredith, "I don’t think I’m ready for this ...
and I just felt overwhelmed."And then he capped off his torrid two-month stretch with his grandest feat of all, leading the entire weekend and strolling to a 1-under 71 — with one lapse in concentration at the end when it didn’t matter — for a three-shot victory over Rory McIlroy.RELATED: Tiger Woods: A look at the long road back to the Masters following car crashFor a guy who had won three of his previous five tournament, who reached No.
1 in the world, why suddenly be overcome with doubt?"I think because it’s the Masters. I dreamed of having a chance to play in this golf tournament.