SOUTHPORT, England — Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy are both chasing a second claret jug at the British Open this week.The world’s top two golfers are unmoved about what that would mean for their legacies.“I’ll be long gone. I’ll be dead,” McIlroy said Tuesday when asked if winning more trophies and breaking more records would shape how he’ll be viewed in a hundred years.“I don’t think I’ll be seeing what people say about me. I’ll be six feet under. I don’t think I’ll be a ghost.”Seems Scheffler’s goal isn’t about chasing a place in history, either.“This is going to sound a little morbid,” the top-ranked American said. “At the end of the day, I’m going to live my life and it’s going to end. When it ends, I’m going somewhere else, and I’m not going to be here anymore.”Coming over to play the Open Championship seems to bring the philosophical side out of Scheffler.It was around this time last year, speaking days before winning golf’s oldest championship at Royal Portrush, that Scheffler delivered a soliloquy about fulfillment and what being good at golf really means.“I love being able to play this game for a living,” he said back then, before adding: “But does …
