Texas’s storied rivalry was back on Saturday night as the Texas Longhorns faced Texas A&M after a decade. It was a fight for a heavyweight championship, and the Longhorns preserved, securing 17-7 and now gearing up for the Southeastern Conference Championship title in their first season in the SEC. They will be facing the Georgia Bulldogs and aiming to get the SEC title, which the Texas A&M’s have never done even though they joined the league way before them.

As the Aggies and Longhorns were seated to watch the intense match between the two Texan teams, Scottie Scheffler and Jordan Spieth from the University of Texas were also glued to their screens, and so was Aggie Ryan Palmer. So, once the A&M faced the disappointing loss, the Longhorns had the chance to rub salt all over this wound. Palmer and Spieth joined at the PGA Tour SiriusXM Radio after the match.

It was so intense that it even forced Scheffler to act out of character and fire up a text to Palmer just to remind him of the loss. Spieth talked about the incident and said, “I was surprised. Scottie’s not normally one to fire first, so that was kind of nice.” The 13-time PGA Tour winner also expressed that usually, he is the one to run his mouth, so he was glad the world no. 1 took the initiative.

Even Palmer backed the hidden characteristic of the Scheffler. He added, “That’s the funny thing about what people don’t know about Scottie: he is not afraid to throw jabs.” He surely is not, and many on the PGA Tour know all about it. The 14-time PGA Tour winner is so good at roasting people that he didn’t even let his best friend off the hook.

Scottie Scheffler knows when to fire up and how

The Thursday of the Presidents Cup was a fiery match as Scottie Scheffler faced one of his good friends, Tom Kim, at the Royal Montreal Golf Club. The match took an intense turn when Kim birdied a putt from inside 30 feet, celebrated like crazy, and screamed at Scheffler, “Let’s go.” Now one thing about the world no. 1 is that he rarely lost in the 2024 season, and if you trolled him, he would do that more brutally than before.

So, when it came to Scheffler’s chance to putt the par-3 seventh hole, he made a birdie too from a similar length but with much more force, and with a smirk, shouted at Kim’s way, “What was that?” After that, Kim and his partner, Sungjae Im, did not win a single hole as Scheffler and Russell Henley ended the match 3 & 2 up. Even at the press conference, the world no. 1 rubbed the defeat in the International team’s face and said, “Looked like he poked the bear, from my perspective.”

The rivalry was getting intensified, and to not hear another celebratory remark from Scheffler at the 8th green, Kim decided to not see Scheffler putt and just walk onto the 9th tee. This was a huge controversy at that time, as the Korean pro was deemed disrespectful. But Scheffler and Kim were doing it all knowing they were friends and would be even after the match. Nonetheless, what we all know is that you don’t want to strike a fight with Scheffler because his jabs are absolutely brutal.