What the World’s Top Golfer Can Learn From a Fellow Longhorn’s 1997 Win at the British Open

When he’s asked to compare Scottie Scheffler to another outstanding player in the history of golf, University of Texas golf coach John Fields typically mentions Seve Ballesteros, the Spanish champion with the ingenuity and dexterity of a sculptor shaping a lump of clay. Just as the late Ballesteros did throughout his decorated career, Scheffler uses his hands as an extension of a supple imagination occupied only by the shot that needs to be struck in a particular circumstance. “I’d only seen that one other place,” Fields says. “I still believe today that somewhere in [Scottie’s] body is some remnant of Seve.”Fields speaks from experience. After graduating from the University of New Mexico, he played professional golf in Europe in the early 1980s, when Ballesteros was…

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