Scheffler Loves The Louvre & Left In Awe Of The Mona Lisa

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There’s no question the golf world is currently in awe of Scottie Scheffler and his winning ways this season but the American admitted he was star-struck in visiting the Louvre, and home to Leonardo Da Vinci’s masterpiece – the Mona Lisa.

Scheffler took in the Paris sights ahead of this week’s 2024 Olympic Games in the French capital.

The two-time Masters champion, 28, along with his wife Meredith and their very young son Bennett, 3 months, shared pictures of their adventures in and around Paris.

In one photo, the family toured the famed Louvre museum, and in another, they smiled beneath an umbrella as they posed on a bridge along the Seine river.

“Made it to Paris & Bennett loved the Louvre #parisolympics,” Scheffler captioned his post.

Elsewhere on his Instagram Story, Scheffler shared a video of a woman making a crêpe, captioning the post, “Crêpes in Paris are [fire].” In the next slide, he showed off an assortment of pastries, including a chocolate croissant, and wrote, “…so are these.”

Like all 2024 athletes, Olympic debutant Scheffler is taking advantage of the absence of COVID restrictions that marked the Tokyo Games to soak up the atmosphere of the host city and watch other events.

That included a visit to the world’s biggest museum on Saturday where was able to roam freely with little attention, he told @OlympicGolfreporters.

“I could not believe how many people were in there and how big it was,” he said of the Louvre during a press conference at Le Golf National, the Olympic venue south of Paris.

“I would say the paintings were something that really took me back,” he said, mentioning Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa as part of “one tenth of the museum at most” that he saw.

After a packed PGA Tour season, including a final major of the season in wild Scottish weather at The Open this month, Scheffler said he enjoyed having his wife and baby boy with him last week as he practiced further south in France before coming up to Paris.

The downtime included Olympic table-tennis and Scheffler plans to catch gymnastics on Tuesday before focusing on the men’s golf tournament Thursday-Sunday.

Joining his U.S. teammates for practice since Sunday, he praised Schauffele’s unchanged, down-to-earth nature after the Tokyo gold medalist also had a stellar year with two major titles including the British Open.

And as he prepares at the Le Golf National, Scheffler has been able to pick the brains of his caddie Ted Scott, who was part of the U.S. Ryder Cup team that played Europe in 2018 at the same venue. Scheffler heads a field of 60 players who will compete in a 72-hole stroke play format from Thursday.



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