Scottie Scheffler, Beau Hossler Confirm They Nearly Came To Blows On Course During College Days At Texas

Scottie Scheffler and Beau Hossler both seem like players that would be lumped into the ‘nice guys’ group on the PGA Tour, especially off the golf course. On the course is an entirely different story, especially for Scheffler. You don't become the No. 1 player in the world without being among the fiercest competitors in the sport.

The fire we've seen out of Scheffler over the last few years isn't some newly-found mindset, it's been burning inside of him since the early days, and Hossler had a front-row seat to Scheffler going beyond the edge during their college days at Texas.

John Fields, who is still the head coach of the Longhorns, recently joined the Subpar podcast and shared quite the story about Scheffler and Hossler nearly coming to blows on the golf course during an event hosted by rival Texas Tech.

Scheffler, a freshman at the time, was playing in the same group as Hossler during the one-day event but playing in separate matches. He lost his match earlier in the day, so his mood wasn't exactly great, but got much worse after he accidentally hit Hossler's golf ball in the fairway.

"You would’ve thought Mount Vesuvius just went off, like we had a volcano 15 yards below us," Fields said. "Scheffler got so mad when he figured out that he’d hit the wrong ball, he ran up to the green, 260 yards on a dead sprint, picked up the ball, ran back, and threw it at Beau’s feet." 

"Beau goes ahead and hits the right shot, and Scottie has lost the hole now. He’d just lost a hole, but it’s killing him. And now, they’re jawing against each other on the way up [to the green], and finally on the next hole, on the par-3, I told Beau, ‘We are not going another step farther until you apologize to Scottie for that.’"

Despite Fields being a first-hand witness to the situation and going into great detail, the story is still hard to believe given how calm, cool, and collected Scheffler and Hossler are.

Ahead of this week's Houston Open, Hossler not only confirmed the story, but said Fields downplayed the situation, if anything.

"No, it wasn't inflated. He [coach Fields] probably deflated it if anything," Hossler explained. "It was a bad deal. It didn't mean anything, but it was just -- we're really competitive, both of us," said Hossler. "That was the really cool part about our golf team at Texas, it was like every player on the team was like either a very good player or a pretty good player that was very competitive. We wanted to kick each other's ass all the time, he continued.

Scheffler confirmed the story as well, describing it as one of those moments the two had been around each other for so long that they essentially hit their boiling points.

Nobody in their right mind would have ever predicted Scheffler and Hossler nearly coming to blows in the middle of a match, but here we are. It's certainly a great story the two can always share as part of their journey to the PGA Tour.