“Well, you have to be available. Time spent with your children, you can’t get back,” Scott Scheffler , father of Scottie Scheffler , said once. Scottie is heading to his third consecutive Ryder Cup at Bethpage this week, and like it or not, a lot of the outcome will rest on his shoulders. During those times, he would need his family. Like he had his wife, Meredith, last time when the US suffered a bruising loss to Europe in Rome. And though Team US will try not to replicate that, the onus of playing on home turf, Scheffler senior has left no stone unturned to be there for his son.

Scott Scheffler confirmed on SiriusXM that he’ll be at the event, minivan and all, ready to support his son. “We literally are on the LI [Long Island] highway,” he said on a phone call to the Ryder C

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