Scottie Scheffler has gotten used to winning golf tournaments, it seems. On Sunday at Silverado Resort, the world No. 1 picked up his 19th PGA Tour title by outlasting a field full of talent at the Procore Championship. But you know what’s funny? Instead of basking in the glow of another trophy (it looks like we’ll lose count soon), Scheffler was mostly worried about what was happening on a football field hundreds of miles away.

During his post-round press conference, the 28-year-old admitted he had been tracking the Dallas Cowboys‘ Week 2 matchup against the New York Giants in the middle of his round! “Basically all the time,” he said when asked if he checks football scores mid-tournament. “I was pretty clued into the Cowboys game today before we were teeing off, and last I saw we were punting it away with two and a half minutes left in overtime. Last I heard, we won. I heard that from numerous people out there on the course, so if they were lying to me, I’m going to be kind of pissed. I don’t know if they were telling the truth.”

Turns out, the Napa Valley fans weren’t messing with him! The Cowboys actually pulled off a wild 40-37 overtime win, their first under new head coach Brian Schottenheimer. Brandon Aubrey drilled a 64-yard field goal to tie things at the end of the regulation, then iced the game with a 46-yarder in OT. For Scheffler, it ended up being a perfect day: another trophy in the cabinet and a Cowboy victory on top of that!

These moments show just how deep Mr. Inevitable’s football obsession runs. Born in New Jersey but raised in Dallas from the age of six, he’s been a diehard Cowboys supporter basically all his life. Back in July, the world found his undying love for them. At a Pardon My Take podcast, he confessed that he wouldn’t mind trading one of his major titles, or 10 regular PGA titles, just to see the Cowboys win the Super Bowl. “I would trade one for sure for a Super Bowl. I’ve been rooting for a Super Bowl for a long time. Long, hard work has gone into cheering on the Cowboys — arguably a lot more disappointment in football than there is in golf.”

That is really something, Scottie, damn! But in his defence, Scheffler has never seen his team win it all. The poor guy was born just five months after Dallas’ last Lombardi Trophy in 1996. Decades of playoff heartbreak later, he’s still hanging on. His love for football solidified during his high school days at Highland Park, where he dabbled in the sport quite often. Although he chose golf full-time, his love for football never went away.

Coming back to his victory in Napa, Scheffler, like 9 other men on the course, was spearheading for the Ryder Cup in two weeks, treating the Championship like a tune-up. He shook off an opening-round 70 that snapped his streak of 21 straight sub-70 scores. From there, he went 17-under across the final 54 holes with weekend rounds of 64 and 67. A hot start on Sunday, with three birdies in his first seven holes, set the mood. When Ben Griffin dulled in the middle of his round, Scheffler took that opportunity. In the end, the victory was his.

And yet, even with this one for the movies victory, his lovely Cowboys managed to sneak into the story. That’s the dual life Scheffler lives — one of the best golfers on the planet, but still a Texas kid who wants his football team to stop breaking his heart. Or as he once joked when asked about missing games because of his own tournaments: “I hope I can never watch the Cowboys if I’m playing golf.”

For now, he’ll settle for a win in Napa. But don’t be surprised if one day, Scottie Scheffler lifts another trophy and admits he’d swap it in a second for a Super Bowl parade down in Dallas.

Interestingly, he’s not the only golfer with an underlying football love.

Golf’s biggest football fanatics

Scottie Scheffler isn’t alone in blurring the lines between golf and football obsession. Rory McIlory has long worn his Manchester United loyalty on his sleeve (I know it’s soccer, but they call it football there, so). After his much-awaited career Grand Slam at Augusta earlier this year, McIlory was invited by manager Ruben Amorim to Old Trafford. McIlroy even quipped he’d happily bring the coveted Green Jacket to the stadium. While he once turned down the chance to invest in Leeds United — “as a Manchester United fan, can’t go anywhere near that,” he said — McIlroy has admitted he’d jump at owning even a tiny slice of his boyhood club.

Matt Fitzpatrick, meanwhile, openly claims he loves football more than golf. The 2022 US Open winner is obsessed with Sheffield United, so much so that he brought his trophy to Bramall Lane for a presentation after his major triumph. He has hinted several times that he would easily switch careers if given a chance. Tommy Fleetwood also has his own fandom story stitched. His love for Everton is known, and coincidentally, the Southport native lifted his first PGA Tour trophy at East Lake on the very same day his beloved Toffees opened their new stadium! Sounds similar to Scheffler’s story, huh?

So, as these golfer create ripples in modern era golf, their love for football (soccer in some cases, pardon me) needs to be studied.