Xander Schauffele has seen plenty of greatness in his career—but even he admits he didn’t expect this. In a candid post-round interview at The Open Championship at Royal Portrush, Xander revealed his genuine shock at the relentless dominance of Scottie Scheffler. From consistency off the tee to clutch putting, Scheffler has taken control of the leaderboard—and even his peers are taking notice.
Watch as Xander opens up about Scottie’s current run, what makes him so unstoppable, and how the rest of the field is struggling to keep up. You won’t want to miss this honest and revealing reaction from one of golf’s most respected players.
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struggles with the batter today, maybe during the week, too. Do you think that was the main factor for this week? Um, I kind of did the the back and forth. I felt like I started to hit the ball a lot better and as soon as I started to hit the ball a lot better, um, I gave myself a lot of chances and I started putting a lot worse. Uh, putted better when I was hitting it worse and then putted worse when I was hitting it better. So, uh, I got golfed today and and and this week and yeah, I mean, I’m I tried my very my very best and need to obviously address sort of, you know, I feel like I just wasn’t hitting my putts hard enough uh for what Fescue and kind of how bumpy the greens are late in the afternoon. Um, so something I need to to address moving forward. And the last thing you see Scotty right now, you were talking about the black box these days. What do you think is going on through your head? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, he’s I’m sure he’s doing his shot by shot. Uh c cruising along here. You know, it’s nice to have 17 and 18. You can hit irons off both TE’s um with a four shot lead. He might hit driver just because he hits it really straight. So, um but yeah, he he’s incredible. He he really is uh you know, I I don’t think we we thought the golfing world would see sort of someone as dominant as Tiger come through so soon. And you know, here’s Scotty sort of taking that throne of dominance. you know, you can’t even say he’s on a run. He’s just been killing it for over two years now. So, uh, you know, he he’s he’s a tough man to beat, and when you see his name up on the leaderboard, it’s it sucks for us. Very good. Perfect. Nice.
