PORTRUSH, Northern Eire — Do not feel dangerous for Xander Schauffele having to return the Claret Jug when he arrived at Royal Portrush to defend his title within the Open Championship. It isn’t as if he had wherever to maintain it.
Schauffele has gained eight occasions in his PGA Tour profession, together with The Open, the PGA Championship and the Tour Championship. There’s additionally the Olympic gold medal from Tokyo in 2021.
The place to maintain all of it? Not at his home. Schauffele mentioned his dad and mom hold all his trophies, “in all probability in a financial institution vault.” They’ve a house in San Diego, and his father is constructing a spot on Kauai, dwelling in what Stefan Schauffele calls “the container.”
The gold medal?
“I truly do not know the place that’s, to be utterly sincere,” Schauffele mentioned.
It isn’t all that shocking contemplating how merely Schauffele and his spouse, Maya Lowe, want to stay. He celebrates a bit greater than Scottie Scheffler, however, very similar to with the world’s No. 1 participant, it’s on to the next tournament to start over.
“What am I going to do with it? I do not actually invite individuals over to my home. Am I simply going to go take a look at it myself?” Schauffele mentioned. “I do not wish to stroll right into a trophy room like, ‘Look how nice I’m.’ I used to be simply raised to suppose that approach, and it is form of caught.”
That begs the query: What’s on the cabinets of their Florida residence if not trophies?
“My spouse hung up some footage of me in my fitness center of me profitable the Olympic medal, and she or he put it so excessive up I can not attain it,” Schauffele mentioned. “I’ve to get a ladder now, and it bothers me. If something, put up me in a Masters jacket, like that may piss me off, you recognize what I imply? One thing like that’s extra motivating.”
If it have been as much as Schauffele, he would grasp pictures of his canines. Or nothing. Possibly a clock.
“I am all the time late, so perhaps a clock can be good for me,” Schauffele mentioned.
He mentioned Ryder Cup captain Keegan Bradley has instructed him to you should definitely get pleasure from large wins, and Schauffele figures he’ll do this sooner or later.
“However proper now I actually wish to hold my head down and hold charging,” he mentioned.