‘This is not a fulfilling life’: Why success can’t satisfy

American golfer Scottie Scheffler made headlines at the Open Championship in Portrush last month – and not just for winning it. On the eve of the tournament, he gave an interview that made people around the world sit up and take notice. In a day when sports stars undergo media training and their answers to questions are routine and formulaic, Scheffler tore up the script by asking what the point of it all was.

Many would envy Scheffler – 14th on Forbes’ list of the 2025 ‘World’s Highest Paid Athletes’, jetting around the world to play sport. Yet when interviewed, Scheffler said bluntly: ‘This is not a fulfilling life’. He went on to elaborate: ‘It’s fulfilling from the sense of accomplishment but it’s not fulfilling from a sense of the deepest places of your heart. 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?”

Scheffler knows all about the relentless nature of chasing success only to be left feeling empty when you achieve it: ‘It feels like you work your whole life to celebrate winning a tournament for like a few minutes. It only lasts a few minutes, that kind of euphoric feeling.’ To read the rest of this article written by Rev. Stephen Steele for a local paper, click here.