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 is not as if he had anyplace to maintain it.
Schauffele has received 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 mother and father 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 fully trustworthy,” Schauffele mentioned.
It is not all that stunning contemplating how merely Schauffele and his spouse, Maya Lowe, want to stay. He celebrates somewhat greater than Scottie Scheffler, however, very like 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 assume that method, and it is type of caught.”
That begs the query: What’s on the cabinets of their Florida residence if not trophies?
“My spouse hung up some photos of me in my health club of me successful 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 might piss me off, what I imply? One thing like that’s extra motivating.”
If it have been as much as Schauffele, he would cling pictures of his canine. 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 informed him to you’ll want to take pleasure in huge wins, and Schauffele figures he’ll try this sooner or later.
“However proper now I actually wish to hold my head down and hold charging,” he mentioned.
