Scottie Scheffler won The Open Championship this past weekend—his fourth major title. Only three other golfers have won four majors before the age of 30.
Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus, and Tiger Woods.
The last time someone won their first four majors by three strokes or more was in 1909. Before The Masters even existed.
But Scottie wasn’t thinking about the historic implications of his win.
“You just don’t know what’s going to happen. So it doesn’t ever really feel like the tournament’s won sometimes until the ball is in the hole. Golf is a funny game. You’ve got to stay focused for the entire tournament.”
Scottie was focused on the next shot.
He has an otherworldly ability to pick now.
He doesn’t get lost in what the leaderboard says, or what the moment could mean or what’s coming on the next hole. He doesn’t spiral into what-if scenarios or try to force an outcome.
He looks at the ball. Where is it? What’s the lie?
In the fairway? In the deep rough? In a pot bunker?
All the practice, all the knowledge, coming down to one shot. This one.
He does the one thing that matters: he takes the best swing he can, for this moment, from this lie, for this shot.
He picks now.
And then he does it again. Shot after shot.
At the end of four days, he’s a champion. Or he’s not.
That’s how you lead.
Not by trying to solve everything at once. Not by waiting until you’re sure. Not by rehearsing a thousand futures.
But by picking the next right thing in front of you. The next swing. The next move.
Do that—over and over again—and your life will change.
Be like Scottie Scheffler.
Pick now.