When you’re the world’s best golfer, you can afford flash cars, million-dollar mansions, even your own private jet. But Scottie Scheffler? He just forked out $50 on eBay for… a divot repair tool.
Yes, a divot repair tool, according to PGATour.com’s Sean Martin.
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The reigning FedExCup champ is famously obsessive about routine — same coach since childhood, the same training grip you’d hand a beginner, even the same SUV long after the odometer clicked into six digits. That love of consistency extends to the smallest details in his golf life.
“It’s more checkpoints,” Scheffler explained this week. “I have a routine that I go through at tournaments… getting used to the grass, knowing how far the ball is going, getting used to the speed of the greens, getting used to the amount of sand in the bunkers.”
And somewhere in that carefully choreographed process is a trusty little piece of metal — the perfect divot repair tool he first picked up at Cypress Point.
“It’s just the right size and it’s metal,” Scheffler said Thursday after shooting 67 in the opening round of the FedEx St Jude Championship. “They don’t really make those types of divot tools anymore, so I found one there and I’ve stuck with it.”
The problem? He lost it. And no replacement seemed to exist. That sent the Masters champ into the deepest corners of the internet until – jackpot – one popped up on eBay.
Cost: $50.
Regret: zero.
Scheffler didn’t even hide behind an alias. “The seller included a nice note with the shipment,” he said with a grin.
Still, he wasn’t making the same mistake twice. When he returned to Cypress Point earlier this year, Scheffler made sure to stockpile his prized implement.
“They were a little cheaper on-site, so I got a couple extras,” he said.
It’s a story that sums up Scheffler perfectly: a man who won’t compromise on the small things, because the small things add up to big results. And if that means paying collector’s prices for a humble divot tool, so be it.
After all, in golf – as in life – it’s the details that make the difference.
