Gary Player is a huge admirer of Scottie Scheffler, both on and off the golf course.
Player is one of the most successful golfers ever to have played the game, with nine major championships to his name.
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Amazingly, though, Scheffler is currently just two victories short of the South African’s career PGA Tour win tally.
Scottie Scheffler has been the dominant player in the professional game for the past four years now.
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And Gary Player is seriously appreciative of the Texan’s accomplishments.
However, the 90-year-old wants to see more of Scheffler playing globally in the future.
What Gary Player believes Scottie Scheffler needs to do more
While speaking to Golf Monthly recently, Player suggested that he’d love to see Scheffler play more internationally.
“Scottie Scheffler is without a doubt the best player in the world today, and what I admire about Scottie Scheffler is that he’s very much a family man. And your family is so vitally important,“ Player said.
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“I was deprived of that because I had to travel away from my family from South Africa. At least he’s lucky he lives in America, he finishes a tournament, most of these guys have their own jets, they’re back home on Sunday night and they can see them.
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“But I would like to see Scottie Scheffler, who’s such a wonderful golfer and such a nice man, to travel and promote golf internationally more than he does because we have a debt incurred.
“Golf has done so much for us and if Scottie would travel and play just a little more, I would say five tournaments a year like Nicklaus did, like Palmer did, like Sam Snead did, like Trevino did, like Tom Watson.
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“I think he eventually will. I think at the moment he’s so intent on setting as many records in America and I’ll follow him with great interest.“
It is obviously Scheffler’s prerogative to play more in America than he does internationally.
However, it would undoubtedly be great for the game of golf if he decided to play more international tournaments in the future.
What Scottie Scheffler said about playing more internationally
Back in July, Scheffler was asked whether playing more tournaments outside of the United States interests him.
“It definitely interests me,“ the world number one replied.
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“I’d like to see how it shapes out the next couple of years. There’s a lot of places I think I’d like to play.
“There’s always just, you know, the time and the place for me. I’m at a time in my life where I have a young family at home and young kids. The fall is a special time for our family. It’s where we can really check out and be together, and I get to spend a lot of time with my kids. So I hold those moments pretty sacred.
“But at the same time I love golf and I would love to be able to play more internationally. Like Australia, New Zealand is a place we would love to be able to go to. My wife has always wanted to go to New Zealand.
“But like I said, I love this style of golf [links], and I feel like it’s pretty unique to here. But going to play the Sandbelt in Australia would be pretty special as well.
“Hopefully I can find the time. It’s definitely an intriguing part of the schedule and yeah, it definitely interests me, as well.“
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