"I'm gonna try and get better" - Netflix's Full Swing showcases Masters Champion Scottie Scheffler's exceptional mindset

Scottie Scheffler is one of the best golfers in the world right now, especially after winning the WM Phoenix Open and getting back atop the OWGR rankings. He usurped Rory McIlroy, who did the same to him late last year, though Jon Rahm has since taken that spot.

There are a lot of factors behind why Scheffler is on top of the world right now. For starters, he's obviously one of the most talented players to pick up a club right now. He has the talent to do all of this. Something that might go overlooked is his mindset, which was on full display during the Full Swing documentary on Netflix.

Scottie Scheffler said:

"Not taking bad rounds home. Not ruining the rest of my evening. You know, I'm not saying I need to win this amount of tournaments or I need to win this tournament now or do this certain thing. I'm gonna try and get better and show up at a tournament and just try to do my best."

Two months after saying that, he added:

"I've never really been much of an expectations guy. For me, it's always about working as hard as I can, and everything after that isn't up to me. "

For comparison, before Scheffler revealed his thoughts, Brooks Koepka, a notable LIV Golf defector, stated that he would only consider a year a success if he was able to win a major tournament. Koepka reportedly defected in large part because he didn't think he could do that anymore, but perhaps it's a mindset issue.

Koepka did rise to world number one back in 2018, but he's fallen off since then and is now with LIV, so that ranking will remain the only time he's achieved such heights.

Scottie Scheffler, who may be going back and forth with McIlroy and trying to fight off the red-hot Jon Rahm, isn't too worried about it and it's working wonders for his game.

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Jon Rahm surpasses Scottie Scheffler as world number one

Scottie Scheffler held the top spot on the OWGR leaderboard only briefly. After returning to the top spot, he was shortly thereafter usurped by Jon Rahm, who said via CBS Sports:

"If I were not to ... get to No. 1 at this point, I don't really care. I've won five out of my last nine starts, I haven't finished worse than top seven and I've won three tournaments already. I don't need a ranking to validate anything, right?

Jon Rahm surpassed Scottie Scheffler

Rahm continued:

"Having the best season of my life and hopefully I can keep it going. I said it before: For the ranking to be accurate, we're going to have to wait about a year and a half for all those points to kind of, I don't know if recycle is the right word, but for the people that earned points before they changed the system for everything to even out."

"I'm also right on what I said earlier on the year. I mean, if I get to No. 1, I'm the third player to be No. 1 in the world in, what, just over a month and a half."

Much like Scheffler, Rahm isn't as worried about the results.