'It was a rough day, hence the beer'
"It was a rough day at work, hence the beer," he smiled as he let his guard down a little.
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We learned Xander "used to wait for the rain to come in San Diego to go out and practice in it" because it rarely rained when he was growing up in the Californian city.
He's "happy" to have his Olympic gold medal but is a "traditionalist" and didn't think golf should have been in the Games.
He also revealed: "Every year my friends would bet on me for the majors, to win. I'm like, why… winning is tough. The PGA at Valhalla (which was his first major title, in 2024) was the first time the entire group stopped betting on me.
"They had been betting on me for six years straight years and that's when they stopped. I told them, you guys are never allowed to bet on me again."
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