{"id":435830,"date":"2025-07-15T23:24:41","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T23:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/?p=435830"},"modified":"2025-07-15T23:24:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T23:24:41","slug":"the-open-victories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/the-open-victories\/","title":{"rendered":"The Open Sparks Talks About Success And Whats Next"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the PGA Tour continues on in this 2025 season of play, one of the most notable and awaited tournaments is set to take place July 17th. The Open will be a stage many of the top golfers around, will be looking to play their best at. Previous winner in <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/xander-schauffele-mental-struggles\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Xander Schauffele<\/a> is expecting another strong outing, having overcome the odds stacked against him last time around. With many considering this to be the most prestigious event like that of The Masters, many have expressed what a victory at The Open would mean or even still leave in question.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>The Most Prestigious Event\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With many discussions throughout media appearances all being centered upon The Open, players within the Tour have voiced what it means to them. From those like Jon Rahm, Scottie<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/scottie-scheffler-opens-up-about-finding-purpose-beyond-golf\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\"> Scheffler,<\/a> and many others who understand the opportunity gearing up to take place.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;The most prestigious event you can win in golf,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/UnderdogGolf\/status\/1945165500515770716\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rahm said.<\/a> &#8220;There&#8217;s an order to it too because it changes venues, so if you can win it in St Andrews, I don&#8217;t think anything in golf can come close to that.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_435832\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-435832\" style=\"width: 254px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-435832\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2025\/07\/USATSI_26598269_168416625_lowres-254x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2025\/07\/USATSI_26598269_168416625_lowres-254x300.jpg 254w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2025\/07\/USATSI_26598269_168416625_lowres-867x1024.jpg 867w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2025\/07\/USATSI_26598269_168416625_lowres-768x908.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2025\/07\/USATSI_26598269_168416625_lowres.jpg 1117w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 254px) 100vw, 254px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-435832\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">No. 26\u2026Lou Graham (Father Ryan High-Memphis State): Here, Graham of Nashville proudly holds his U.S. Open championship trophy he won last month, which arrive here on July 17, 1975. Graham was at Richland Country Club getting some practice and skipping the Pleasant Valley Golf Classic this week of the PGA tour.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Levels to the difficulty or even course location, can amplify the meaning of the tournament taking place. On the other hand, you have those like No. one in the sport in Scottie Scheffler who feel different. Different in the sense that now, Scheffler is wondering early on about what\u2019s next and the newly centered upon career goal. When you reach a mountaintop of success, there is often a new created eagerness for more. Taking a win at this upcoming Open Championship, will only add to the already long list of achievements for Scheffler and company.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Why do I want to win The Open Championship so badly? I don&#8217;t know because, if I win, it&#8217;s going to be awesome for two minutes&#8230; we work so hard for such little moments,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KylePorterNS\/status\/1945107140965728684\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Scheffler said.\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>What Is The End Goal?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Like with any career lane or mindset, there is an end goal of some sort. A big topic and even question similarly seen in this season of Tour play. Realizing that career victories are not the only ones that matter, but also all the wins outside of the sport. There will be a new energy and atmosphere surrounding this season&#8217;s Open Championship, and due to the field of golfers coming to deeper understanding. A win here will mean the world to arguably all in competition, yet it will be the next steps after that many will try and decipher early on.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI think I\u2019ve always been a player that struggles to play after a big event, after I win whatever tournament,\u201d Rory McIlroy said. \u201cI always struggle to show up with motivation the next week because you\u2019ve just accomplished something and you want to enjoy it and you want to sort of relish the fact that you\u2019ve achieved a goal.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It will be interesting to see competitive nature at The Open, including any outbursts that may come due to the pressure and environment. A tournament does not get much bigger than this, especially when those in competition have different viewpoints than before.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Main Photo Credit: \u00a9 Jack Gruber \/ USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the PGA Tour continues on in this 2025 season of play, one of the most notable and awaited tournaments is set to take place July 17th. The Open will be a stage many of the top golfers around, will be looking to play their best at. Previous winner in Xander Schauffele is expecting another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5427,"featured_media":435831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,19],"tags":[79,34,154,83],"class_list":["post-435830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-golf","category-pga","tag-jon-rahm","tag-rory-mcilroy","tag-scottie-scheffler","tag-the-open-championship"],"modified_by":"Orlando Fuller","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":435833,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435830\/revisions\/435833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}