Xander Schauffele had fairly a celebration after his PGA Championship win final month.
However fortunately for him, his hangover didn’t linger into this week’s Memorial Event, the place he carded a clear 4-under 68 throughout Thursday’s opening spherical.
“I’m proud of how I performed, with how I caught in there, and actually comfortable my brief sport bailed me out on a day that might have been loads worse,” Schauffele stated.
“I do know I would like to wash up a few of that longer stuff. This course is de facto arduous, and the wind is meant to blow actually arduous tomorrow, much more than right now, so I do know I would like to wash it up.”
Schauffele made zero bogeys on Thursday, due to his putter. He gained almost 4 strokes on the greens, rating first of the 73 gamers within the discipline through the first spherical. He made quite a few par saves, particularly on the fifth, eighth, and ninth holes, to maintain a clear card on the entrance 9.
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He then saved it rolling on the again, opening the closing aspect with a 16-foot par save on the tenth.
“If I didn’t make a number of the putts I wanted right now, it might have been a 2-over or most likely worse,” Schauffele stated.
“I noticed the strains type of shortly, even from the get-go. I used to be taking a look at leaving putts within the coronary heart brief. So, as quickly as I acquired the pace down, I used to be rolling.”
Schauffele didn’t have his greatest stuff from tee to inexperienced, however he has not performed competitively in three weeks. But, he did reveal that he started working towards once more on the Thursday after the PGA Championship—the identical day because the opening spherical of the Charles Schwab Problem.
“I began working towards, consider it or not—I do know you noticed some bizarre photographs right now, however I used to be working towards—I began working towards on Thursday after I acquired residence,” Schauffele stated.
“I used to be hungover on Monday, I had media on Tuesday and Wednesday, after which I began {golfing} on Thursday.”
Not less than that hangover has subsided now, or else Schauffele wouldn’t have seen his strains as clearly as he did through the opening spherical. However in some way, due to his scorching putter, Schauffele sits two photographs behind chief Adam Hadwin and one again of Scottie Scheffler, who sits in solo second.
Jack Milko is a golf workers author for SB Nation’s Taking part in By way of. Make sure you take a look at @_PlayingThrough for extra golf protection. You may observe him on Twitter @jack_milko as nicely.
