Xander Schauffele: What's in the bag of the six-time PGA Tour winner?

Xander Schauffele became the latest Callaway staff player to win on the PGA Tour in 2022, securing a two-shot win at the Travelers Championship.

Matt Chivers

27 Jun 2022

Xander Schauffele: What's in the bag of the six-time PGA Tour winner?

Xander Schauffele capitalised on a dramatic blunder by Sahith Theegala on the 72nd hole to win the Travelers Championship at TPC River Highlands.

Despite leading for the majority of the week, Theegala took a one-shot lead into the 18th hole, but he came unstuck in the fairway bunker and went on to make a double-bogey.

Schauffele calmly found the fairway on the 18th hole and expertly approached the green to make a birdie. He secured a two-shot win and his sixth PGA Tour victory.

It is the first 54-hole lead the 28-year-old has converted on tour and it is his first individual title since winning the Sentry Tournament of Champions in 2019.

"Yeah, my mind was telling me hit a good drive and you're going to have a sand wedge or lob wedge in there and a really good look at birdie with that pin kind of on the slope. And to sit there and watch sort of what happened was a bit of a shock obviously," Schauffele said.

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"I really had to try and focus on the task at hand. And sitting there waiting, sort of watching, not really knowing what's going on, but having an idea is a strange thing. So was happy to just hit that tee shot straight down the fairway."

"It feels really good. Everyone talks about how hard it is and I only had the Olympics to fall back on having a lead and closing it. I've never done it on the PGA Tour."