For Tiger Woods, golf was his life. It defined him, drove him. Perhaps Scottie Scheffler’s opposite attitude is what allows him to carry on so successfully and seamlessly.

There are no shortage of big names with their eyes on the Claret Jug at Royal Portrush this week - Rory McIlroy has a score to settle, Scottie Scheffler feels he must now add more Majors and Jon Rahm

Woods' career matches or even surpasses most golfers in history. He has 82 PGA Tour wins in his 29-year career. He began in 1996 and won his first major, the Masters, in 1997 at the age of 21. He became the youngest ever to win a major and three years later became the youngest to complete a grand slam, winning all four major tournaments.

Now comes Scottie Scheffler, who’s very much like Tiger in the record books but so very different from him in terms of psychological makeup. Where Woods would have shoved aside his own mother to win another tournament,

For all his undoubted brilliance, the 29-year-old knows it is what happens at The Open, this year or any other, that will define whether he’ll truly become an all-time great.