In 10th season, Xander Schauffele feeling like ‘old guy’ on tour
The Straits Times
It is the years themselves that are starting to pile up for the 32-year-old father. Read more at straitstimes.com.
LOS ANGELES – Xander Schauffele is the betting favourite at the Valspar Championship this week, thanks in large part to being the highest-ranked player in the field at No. 7 in the world.
It is not often he is playing in a tournament where the likes of Scottie Scheffler, Rory McIlroy and Tommy Fleetwood are absent, but Schauffele hardly feels the weight of being a favourite on tour anymore.
Instead, it is the years themselves that are starting to pile up for the 32-year-old father.
“It’s my 209th (career) start so I’m starting to feel like an old guy out here, to be honest,” Schauffele told reporters at Innisbrook Resort in Palm Harbor, Flordia.
“I feel that more than the actual rank in a field, you know what I mean. I think once the gun goes off and everyone tees off it’s sort of anyone’s game out here.”
Now in his 10th full season on the PGA Tour, Schauffele has become one of the more familiar faces and in 2024 coupled his consistency with his first two Major titles at the PGA and Open Championships.
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