Xander Schauffele spoke to the media at the Valspar Championship after finishing T-2nd at the PLAYERS Championship, just 1 stroke behind winner Scottie Scheffler. What is Xander’s mindset as he looks to bounce back and keep trending upward just weeks from the Masters?
It’s nice to just get back into uh get back in the action um after a close call last week sometimes it’s nice just to get back to work and kind of put your head down and try to figure out a new golf course so um happy to be here yeah
It was it was I played some really good golf um oh I mean overall I just just there again in in a good spot to win a golf tournament and and didn’t get it done so um I’ve accepted that and U have a couple nights of sleep under my belt now
And um feeling better than I did uh a few days ago or a couple days ago so uh just excited to try and win again I’d say as I get a little bit older I’m um I think I’m always pretty tough on myself
But uh you kind of put it to rest uh to to a certain extent I’d say I was more an more anxious sort of Sunday morning and then you have all this adrenaline going and um you know you feel like you’re in the hunt and you feel like
Have a really good chance to win and then you get this sort of really deflating flush it’s like this quarters punch and then a complete Downer after um even when you win um from what I remember a few years back thanks Doug um uh you know you’re really amped up
And you have all this this emotion and adrenaline and then even after winning you You’ really have this like calming sort of flush just whether it’s a gut Punch or a celebration um so I wouldn’t say I was too hot on myself you know I accepted it um was overall pretty
Pleased with was with how I was able ble to play uh not being able to play Super well since they mov The Players tournament so uh just another another close call on my belt for now
