If you missed it, this week the PGA number 1 in the world made the following comments:

“There are a lot of people that make it to what they thought was going to fulfil them in life, and you get there, you get to number one in the world, and they’re like, ‘what’s the point?’ I really do believe that because, what is the point? Why do I want to win this tournament so bad? That’s something that I wrestle with on a daily basis.”

— Scottie Scheffler, July 2025

This is an incredible moment of brutal honesty, where Scheffler says the quiet part out loud. He’s the number one golfer in the world. He has trophies, accolades, the respect of fans and peers alike—and by all accounts, he’s a decent and thoughtful man. But in a moment of raw honesty, Scottie spoke what millions of people think every day: it’s still not enough.

Accomplishment Can’t Satisfy the Soul

We live in a culture that trains us to believe that if we just climb high enough—on the leaderboard, the corporate ladder, the social media feed—then we’ll finally be full. And yet, here is a man who has climbed to the top of one of the world’s most demanding sports—and he’s still hungry.

Of course he is.

Because no matter how many green jackets or Sunday back-nines you win, accomplishment cannot save you. It can’t forgive your sins. It can’t still your soul. It can’t fill the void. And it certainly can’t carry you through suffering or death. In fact, accomplishments often reveal just how hollow we really are. 

What Scottie Scheffler Needs—What We All Need

Scottie doesn’t need another major. He needs the good news that he is more than the sum of his achievements. He needs the truth that the Son of God entered history, not to recruit elite performers, but to rescue sinners—people like me, like you, and yes, like Scottie Scheffler.

The gospel is not a pep talk. 

It’s not a motivational swing tip. 

It’s an announcement:

“You are more broken than you ever imagined, and more loved than you ever dared hope.”

Jesus Christ lived the perfect life we could not live, died the death we deserved, and rose again in victory—offering peace with God, eternal life, and a joy that no missed putt or public failure can shake. Accomplishments may bring happiness for a moment, but only Christ gives joy that endures—because happiness depends on circumstances, but joy depends on Him.

What If?

What if Scottie’s sense of “something missing” isn’t a curse, but a gift? What if the emptiness is actually an invitation?

“Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy?”

– Isaiah 55:2

Scottie, if you ever read this:

The answer to your emptiness isn’t another trophy.

It’s a Person.

His name is Jesus—and He is enough.

*EDIT*

Since publishing this, a few people have reached out and pointed out that Scheffler has elsewhere professed to be a Christian, and have helpfully located some statements from him in the past. And friends, that is GREAT news! Because here is what that means: though Scottie may not have brought it up in this interview, he knows where fullness is found. And as he wrestles with the flesh, putting on the new man and putting off the old, he is identifying—like Solomon in Ecclesiastes—that everything under the sun of vanity, all vanity.

God bless Scottie!