Overview

• Scheffler secured his fourth major at Royal Portrush with a four-stroke victory that reinforced his position as world No. 1.
• NBC’s final-round coverage of The Open averaged 4.1 million viewers and peaked at 6.1 million, marking a 21 percent year-over-year increase.
• On the “Pardon My Take” podcast he joked he would swap one of his major championships for a Dallas Cowboys Super Bowl win.
• He acknowledged that the loud noise picked up by broadcast microphones on the 17th hole was indeed his own doing.
• He rebuffed comparisons to Tiger Woods as “silly,” noting that Woods’s 15 majors keep him in a class of his own.