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18 hours ago
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Xander Schauffele has eight big wins and no trophies to show for it
Xander Schauffele of the United States reacts after putting on the 13th green during a practice round for the British Open golf championship at the Royal Portrush Golf Club, Northern Ireland, Tuesday, July 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Jon Super) PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland (AP) — Don't feel bad for Xander Schauffele having to return the claret jug when he arrived at Royal Portrush to defend his title in the British Open. It's not like he had anywhere to keep it. Schauffele has won eight times in his PGA Tour career. That includes two majors, the British Open and the PGA Championship. It includes the Tour Championship in his rookie season. And it includes the Olympic gold medal from Tokyo in 2021. Advertisement Where to keep it all? Not at his house. Schauffele said his parents keep all his trophies, 'probably in a bank vault.' They have a home in San Diego, and his father is building a place on Kauai, living in what Stefan Schauffele calls 'the container.' The gold medal? 'I actually have no idea where that is, to be completely honest,' Schauffele said. It's not all that surprising considering how simple Schauffele and his wife prefer to live. He celebrates a little more than Scottie Scheffler, but much like the world's No. 1 player, it's on to the next tournament to start over. 'What am I going to do with it? I don't really invite people over to my house. Am I just going to go look at it myself?' he said. 'I don't want to walk into a trophy room like, 'Look how great I am.' I was just raised to think that way, and it's kind of stuck.' Advertisement That begs the question: What is on the shelves of their Florida home if not trophies? 'My wife hung up some pictures of me in my gym of me winning the Olympic medal, and she put it so high up I can't reach it,' Schauffele said. 'I have to get a ladder now, and it bothers me. If anything, put up me in a Masters jacket, like that would piss me off, you know what I mean? Something like that is more motivating.' If it were up to Schauffele, he would hang photos of his dogs. Or nothing. Maybe a clock. 'I'm always late, so maybe a clock would be good for me,' he said. He said Ryder Cup captain Keegan Bradley has told him to be sure to enjoy big wins, and Schauffele figures he will do that at some point. Advertisement 'But right now I really want to keep my head down and keep charging,' he said. Doral in the mix? Sports Business Journal is reporting that Doral might be back on the PGA Tour schedule for the first time since the tour left it for Mexico in 2017. It cited industry sources as saying the PGA Tour plans to add the new tournament that would be April 30-May 3, which ordinarily would be a spot occupied by the Mexico Open. A PGA Tour spokesman said no such deal had been signed. The first part of the 2026 schedule already has some tweaks that include Pebble Beach and Riviera being in consecutive weeks in February, and the Nelson and Colonial in Texas being held in consecutive weeks for the first time since 2018. Advertisement Getting Doral back on the schedule would be a shot across the bow for Saudi-funded LIV Golf, which has held events at Trump Doral every year since it launched in 2022. It is one of the few courses on the LIV schedule that general golf fans know. Sports Business Journal reported earlier that Doral is no the LIV schedule for 2026. For years, Doral was the lead event on the Florida swing that had one of the strongest fields. It was turned into a World Golf Championship in 2006. But then President Donald Trump bought the resort, and the PGA Tour had trouble attracting a title sponsor. One reason was the company would be overshadowed by Trump's presence. A return could signal Trump warming to the PGA Tour. He stepped into negotiations between the tour and the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia — which funds LIV Golf — in February. The two sides could not agree to an investment deal. Advertisement LIV and OWGR LIV Golf has applied again to be part of the Official World Golf Ranking system. Still to be determined is whether the application mentions any changes. The OWGR denied LIV in October 2023. At issue was not the 54-hole events or not having cuts, but the closed shop of only 54 players in the league who stayed the same all year, with minimal ways for anyone to join. Bryson DeChambeau wants to see LIV get ranking points. He doesn't know what LIV will do, but he suggested that more relegation — players losing their spots with poor play — and more paths to LIV would be a start. Currently only one player gets in through its qualifier, and another comes off the Asian Tour (if he's not already on LIV). Advertisement 'I think a global tour, more association to a global tour, would be great for a feeder system into LIV,' DeChambeau said. 'Those things, I think, could help quite a bit.' DeChambeau at No. 15 is the only LIV player among the top 20 in the world ranking. Majors rely on the world ranking to fill their fields, and the heads of all four majors are on the OWGR that voted down LIV's last application. 'I think it's big for us to have these players that are just jumping onboard still collect points,' DeChambeau said. 'They are deserving of it. They're playing some incredible golf every week, and I think having a system in place for us as players would benefit the ecosystem of the game tremendously, especially for fans.' Scottie Scheffler also believes it is important to rank all the golfers in the world. He just found it hard to do on different leagues, comparing it with measuring college golfers who played mostly on the West Coast with those who played on the East Coast, rarely together. Advertisement 'The more often we can get the best players in the world playing together would be better, and that would only be better for the rankings as well,' he said. Divots Padraig Harrington of Ireland, a three-time major champion, has been selected to hit the opening tee shot at the British Open. Also in the first group is Tom McKibbin of Northern Ireland, who decided to join LIV Golf this year. Darren Clarke of Northern Ireland hit the opening tee shot at Royal Portrush in 2019. ... There are 48 Americans in the field at the British Open, compared with 90 American in the field at the U.S. Open. ... The British Open has 37 players making their debut in the championship. ... Hannah Darling of Scotland will make her pro debut next week in the ISPS Handa Women's Scottish Open. Darling played on three Curtis Cup teams. Stat of the week Advertisement Max Homa was No. 15 in the world when he played the British Open last year. He is No. 101 in the world this year and playing the Barracuda Championship in California. Final word 'Playing professional sports is a really weird thing to do. It really is. Just because we put in so much effort, we work so hard for something that's so fleeting. It really is. The feeling of winning just doesn't last that long.' — Scottie Scheffler. ___ AP golf:
Associated Press
18 hours ago
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- Associated Press
Xander Schauffele has eight big wins and no trophies to show for it
PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland (AP) — Don't feel bad for Xander Schauffele having to return the claret jug when he arrived at Royal Portrush to defend his title in the British Open. It's not like he had anywhere to keep it. Schauffele has won eight times in his PGA Tour career. That includes two majors, the British Open and the PGA Championship. It includes the Tour Championship in his rookie season. And it includes the Olympic gold medal from Tokyo in 2021. Where to keep it all? Not at his house. Schauffele said his parents keep all his trophies, 'probably in a bank vault.' They have a home in San Diego, and his father is building a place on Kauai, living in what Stefan Schauffele calls 'the container.' The gold medal? 'I actually have no idea where that is, to be completely honest,' Schauffele said. It's not all that surprising considering how simple Schauffele and his wife prefer to live. He celebrates a little more than Scottie Scheffler, but much like the world's No. 1 player, it's on to the next tournament to start over. 'What am I going to do with it? I don't really invite people over to my house. Am I just going to go look at it myself?' he said. 'I don't want to walk into a trophy room like, 'Look how great I am.' I was just raised to think that way, and it's kind of stuck.' That begs the question: What is on the shelves of their Florida home if not trophies? 'My wife hung up some pictures of me in my gym of me winning the Olympic medal, and she put it so high up I can't reach it,' Schauffele said. 'I have to get a ladder now, and it bothers me. If anything, put up me in a Masters jacket, like that would piss me off, you know what I mean? Something like that is more motivating.' If it were up to Schauffele, he would hang photos of his dogs. Or nothing. Maybe a clock. 'I'm always late, so maybe a clock would be good for me,' he said. He said Ryder Cup captain Keegan Bradley has told him to be sure to enjoy big wins, and Schauffele figures he will do that at some point. 'But right now I really want to keep my head down and keep charging,' he said. Doral in the mix? Sports Business Journal is reporting that Doral might be back on the PGA Tour schedule for the first time since the tour left it for Mexico in 2017. It cited industry sources as saying the PGA Tour plans to add the new tournament that would be April 30-May 3, which ordinarily would be a spot occupied by the Mexico Open. A PGA Tour spokesman said no such deal had been signed. The first part of the 2026 schedule already has some tweaks that include Pebble Beach and Riviera being in consecutive weeks in February, and the Nelson and Colonial in Texas being held in consecutive weeks for the first time since 2018. Getting Doral back on the schedule would be a shot across the bow for Saudi-funded LIV Golf, which has held events at Trump Doral every year since it launched in 2022. It is one of the few courses on the LIV schedule that general golf fans know. Sports Business Journal reported earlier that Doral is no the LIV schedule for 2026. For years, Doral was the lead event on the Florida swing that had one of the strongest fields. It was turned into a World Golf Championship in 2006. But then President Donald Trump bought the resort, and the PGA Tour had trouble attracting a title sponsor. One reason was the company would be overshadowed by Trump's presence. A return could signal Trump warming to the PGA Tour. He stepped into negotiations between the tour and the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia — which funds LIV Golf — in February. The two sides could not agree to an investment deal. LIV and OWGR LIV Golf has applied again to be part of the Official World Golf Ranking system. Still to be determined is whether the application mentions any changes. The OWGR denied LIV in October 2023. At issue was not the 54-hole events or not having cuts, but the closed shop of only 54 players in the league who stayed the same all year, with minimal ways for anyone to join. Bryson DeChambeau wants to see LIV get ranking points. He doesn't know what LIV will do, but he suggested that more relegation — players losing their spots with poor play — and more paths to LIV would be a start. Currently only one player gets in through its qualifier, and another comes off the Asian Tour (if he's not already on LIV). 'I think a global tour, more association to a global tour, would be great for a feeder system into LIV,' DeChambeau said. 'Those things, I think, could help quite a bit.' DeChambeau at No. 15 is the only LIV player among the top 20 in the world ranking. Majors rely on the world ranking to fill their fields, and the heads of all four majors are on the OWGR that voted down LIV's last application. 'I think it's big for us to have these players that are just jumping onboard still collect points,' DeChambeau said. 'They are deserving of it. They're playing some incredible golf every week, and I think having a system in place for us as players would benefit the ecosystem of the game tremendously, especially for fans.' Scottie Scheffler also believes it is important to rank all the golfers in the world. He just found it hard to do on different leagues, comparing it with measuring college golfers who played mostly on the West Coast with those who played on the East Coast, rarely together. 'The more often we can get the best players in the world playing together would be better, and that would only be better for the rankings as well,' he said. Divots Padraig Harrington of Ireland, a three-time major champion, has been selected to hit the opening tee shot at the British Open. Also in the first group is Tom McKibbin of Northern Ireland, who decided to join LIV Golf this year. Darren Clarke of Northern Ireland hit the opening tee shot at Royal Portrush in 2019. ... There are 48 Americans in the field at the British Open, compared with 90 American in the field at the U.S. Open. ... The British Open has 37 players making their debut in the championship. ... Hannah Darling of Scotland will make her pro debut next week in the ISPS Handa Women's Scottish Open. Darling played on three Curtis Cup teams. Stat of the week Max Homa was No. 15 in the world when he played the British Open last year. He is No. 101 in the world this year and playing the Barracuda Championship in California. Final word 'Playing professional sports is a really weird thing to do. It really is. Just because we put in so much effort, we work so hard for something that's so fleeting. It really is. The feeling of winning just doesn't last that long.' — Scottie Scheffler. ___ AP golf:
Fox News
21 hours ago
- Sport
- Fox News
PGA star's dad skipping 'unwatchable' Ryder Cup at Bethpage Black: 'Afraid of what's going to happen'
The Ryder Cup countdown is on, and this year has the potential to be one for the history books. This year's event will take place at Bethpage Black outside of New York City. It will be the second time a team competition has been in the tri-state area, along with the 2017 Presidents Cup at Liberty National in Jersey City. The United States and Europe have alternated winning the Cup, with the home team winning each event, rather convincingly, each year since 2016. Xander Schauffele has been a part of Team USA for each Ryder and Presidents Cup since 2019, and he currently has an automatic bid as the second-ranked American in the FedEx Cup standings (the top six players get automatic bids). However, his own dad wants no part of it. Stefan Schauffele told The London Times that he is "not going" to the Ryder Cup in September. "I'm afraid of what's going to happen in New York. I was there [at Whistling Straits] when they called Shane Lowry's wife a whore in front of him. I couldn't believe my ears," Stefan revealed. Stefan also said he was turned off by the tempers flaring between Rory McIlroy and Patrick Cantlay's caddie, Joe LaCava, in Rome two years ago. McIlroy was not happy with LaCava's celebration of a long putt from Cantlay, who opted not to wear a hat in protest of players not being paid to play in the event. This year, U.S. players will receive a $200,000 stipend and another $300,000 to donate to charity. "That was utterly disgusting claiming this money bulls---, and Rory behaved disgustingly in my opinion," Schauffele continued. "It's only going to get worse. It's ruined my appetite for the Ryder Cup. It becomes unwatchable." McIlroy then had to be held back from LaCava in the parking lot after the round. The rivalry between the two teams is undoubtedly hotter than ever - but apparently, Mr. Schauffele has no interest. Follow Fox News Digital's sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.
The Sun
21 hours ago
- Sport
- The Sun
‘Was it illegal? Yes' – Open star's half-blind coach dad let him drink and try drugs as kid and now lives in the jungle
XANDER SCHAUFFELE was illegally allowed to try drugs, drink alcohol and smoke cigars as a child - by his own dad. Fast forward 16 years and the pair drank booze out of the Claret Jug after his Open glory. 5 5 Schauffele, 31, won The Open at Royal Troon 12 months ago - nine weeks after his maiden Major win at the PGA Championship - and arrives at Portrush as the defending champion. And as well as necking red wine and 'clear liquors' from golf's famous trophy a year ago, he admitted in his champion's press conference: 'I hate to say it, but I've had wine, of course, and then I've had tequila out of it, as well.' Schauffele, though, has been consuming alcohol with his old man Stefan since his early teens. His old man would even give French cognac and Cuban cigars to Xander and his childhood friends when they visited their San Diego home in the mid-noughties. Speaking to The Times, Stefan, 61, said: 'In America, the drinking age is 21 but you're allowed to be killed for your country at 18. This is bulls***. 'I told my boys [Xander and his older brother Nico]: I will teach you everything I know and cram in as many life experiences as I can until you're 16, then you're an adult in my mind. 'That included sexual experiences, even drugs. Someone was selling marijuana and cocaine at the middle school when Xander was 14, so you need to confront this. 'I said, 'I don't mind if you try, you just need to be aware it can f*** you up.' 'There were a lot of green faces with the cigars, some accidents with the alcohol, but they all learnt very quickly. 'Was it illegal? Yes. Can they put me in jail for it now? I don't think so.' Xander Schauffele jokes he was 'trending towards an alcoholic,' but he's happy to be back in Scotland Reflecting back on that upbringing, American Schauffele Jr added: 'He wanted to show me what's on the other side if you are successful. 'But maybe he just wanted a buddy to drink and smoke with.' Around the same age, Stefan challenged Xander to a full-on wrestling fight in the bathroom which ended up with a broken towel rail and the youngster in the bath. Xander added: 'Let's just say I didn't win the fight.' Stefan's parenting techniques have certainly raised question marks. But his determination for his son to succeed as a sporting professional is undeniable. And it is personal for Stefan, too. His own grandfather, Xander's great-grandfather, Richard was a 6ft 8ins 'monster' who played as a striker for Stuttgart before turning to athletics. He qualified for the Olympics discus event and was tipped for gold but injured his shoulder and would never reach the same heights again. HORROR CRASH Stuttgart-born Stefan inherited the sporting genes, initially in the long jump and javelin throw before joining the German national decathlon team. However, like his grandad, his career was cruelly ripped away from him when his car was hit head-on by a drink-driver in 1986. After six eye surgeries and two years in and out of hospital, he used the compensation payment to buy a one-way ticket to California, where he met Ping-Yi Chen, Xander's mother. The couple's first child tragically died of sudden infant death syndrome and they spent two years living in Tokyo, where Stefan discovered golf, a sport he found 'boring' but one he could play with his limited eyesight. So when Xander showed an interest in wanting to make a life out of the sport, Stefan was fully on board, regularly handing in sick notes at Xander's school to take him to the driving range. Now Schauffele has had three crowning moments in his illustrious career - and each one has a significant link to dad Stefan. The first was winning Olympic gold at the delayed Tokyo 2020 games four years ago. Xander gave Stefan - still coaching and representing him at the time - his precious medal. Xander said: 'That was a seriously emotional moment.' Stefan added: 'You're going to make me cry just thinking about it. 'He understood how huge the Olympics was for me. We got in the car and he gave me the medal and said, 'This is for you.'' Then came the PGA Championship win at Valhalla in May 2024 as Schauffele ditched his nearly-man tag by pipping Bryson DeChambeau by one shot. However, Stefan was not there to see his son become a Major champion. That is because he lives in a 20ft shipping container in the remote Hawaiian island of Kauai where he clears areas of jungle with a chainsaw. The mobile home - Stefan had been a 'complete hermit' before being forced to buy the semi-permanent pad - has no electricity or hot water. But he managed to find some electricity to watch the final seven holes of Xander's fourth round at the PGA. Then two months later, Stefan watched his son crowned Champion Golfer of the Year with his victory at Royal Troon. But despite career earnings about to reach £45million - he is 15th in the all-time PGA list - Xander has not lost touch with his humble roots, by still driving his 2015 Toyota Camry, a nod to his rental motor he would drive to qualifying rounds of tournaments ranked way down at No1,734 in the world. Schauffele - who turned down an offer worth a reported £150m from LIV Golf in 2022 - revealed: 'I drove it to Torrey Pines this year. 'I got some heckles for it but it's all good fun. 'It's a trophy that car. Those moments of despair are very important.' Come Sunday, Xander and Stefan will be hoping to keep hold of the other trophy for another year, too. 5
Times
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Times
Meet the Schauffeles — the most eccentric father-son team in sport
'T he Ogre', as Xander Schauffele lovingly refers to his father, didn't want to go to Royal Troon last year. Stefan had been 'living the dream' in a 20-foot-long shipping container without hot water or electricity, spending his days clearing dense patches of jungle with a chainsaw on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. For a while, he had been a 'complete hermit', but his family forced him to buy a mobile. Standing in a safari hat behind the 18th green as Xander reduced the final round of the Open to a procession, Stefan dabbed at the tears streaming from his blind left eye. 'He was a mess,' Xander, 31, says, laughing. 'He was the guy who was still wearing sunglasses when it's completely dark out.' Back in the warmth of the clubhouse, Xander offered his father, who has been his lifelong coach, the first sip out of the Claret Jug. 'We drank red wine and quickly learned that we shouldn't because we looked like absolute drunkards,' Stefan, 60, says. 'It's not easy to drink from it, so then we switched to clear liquors. It smelled bad but at least it wasn't visible.'
