Greatness on the golf course met greatness on the gridiron on Wednesday at TPC Scottsdale as world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler ted it up with Super Bowl-winning quarterback Aaron Rodgers at the WM Phoenix Open Pro-Am.

“Anytime you can be around somebody so great, you just want to pick their brains on certain stuff,” Scheffler said during his pre-tournament press conference. “Aaron is a guy who's always looking for new ways to get better. You think of certain stuff in his health journey and how he was able to recover from his Achilles injury. After my surgery, oddly enough, I did get some advice through him from another player on Tour that was able to help me recover from injury. He's a good guy just to be able to ask questions and pick his brain a little bit on stuff.”

Scheffler said he avoided asking too many direct questions about football and how his mind works but enjoyed the nine holes they spent together.

“He's a super-cool guy, great to meet. He liked to have fun, had good BS,” Scheffler said.

Scheffler, 28, made his season debut last week at Pebble Beach Golf Links after hand surgery in December and finished T-9, including a final-round 67. He ranked first in Strokes Gained: Approach and T-6 in greens in regulation  (54 of 72), suggesting his ball-striking remains elite. A balky putter kept him from being in the thick of the trophy hunt as he finished 41st in Strokes Gained: Putting, a weakness he’ll be sure to tackle with Aaron Rodgers-like intensity.

“I'm getting back in the swing of things, getting back to normal. Still shaking off a little bit of the rust, but I think that'll only improve as I continue to get out here and play,” Scheffler said. “It was definitely good to get a week under my belt last week and did some good things. Did some things I can improve on but overall was happy with the season debut.”

Still, this week is a return to one of his favorite hunting grounds, site of his first Tour title in 2022 and a successful title defense in 2023. Scheffler finished T-3 last year at the WM and his peers know that every time he tees it up, he’s the man to beat.

“The way Scottie has played the last two, three years, there's a lot to emulate or you want to emulate with him,” defending champion Nick Taylor said. “Playing with him on Sunday two years ago, I think was definitely a shift in my career really trajectory of not winning but feeling like I could stack up at certain times certainly with him.”

Few have stacked up with Scheffler, who since that first win here has reeled off another 12 official Tour titles, including seven last year but it’s still hard to fathom for Scheffler that he finally broke the seal in the Desert just three years ago.

“It's a weird feeling because it feels like a lifetime ago, but at the same time it feels like I just started out here. It's kind of a weird balance,” Scheffler said. “I feel like you could have told me it was 30 years ago or three months ago, I wouldn't really know the difference. I feel like that's just how life is sometimes.”

Winning never grows old and that’s what brings the most joy to Scheffler. He loves to compete and see how his game stacks up against the best. He still sees room for improvement in his own game. It was here in 2022 that he learned that he didn't have to play perfect golf to win. Since then, he's been tough to beat. Winning breeds more winning, he said.

“You get a little taste of it and you just want more,” he said. “It's part of how the human heart is. You just want more of it.”

And Scheffler, for one, is not the type to grow complacent. Of those seven wins last season, which along with an Olympic gold medal and unofficial win at the 20-man Hero World Challenge lifted him to a third straight PGA Tour Player of the Year Award, he said, “it's in the rear-view mirror and I can't sit and rest on the accomplishments that I had in the past. I didn't come here to celebrate my two wins from 2022 and 2023; I came here to try to win the tournament this year."

This article originally appeared on Golfweek: Scottie Scheffler played with Aaron Rodgers at WM Phoenix Open pro-am