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Associated Press
Jul 15, 2025, 04:25 PM ET
PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland -- Don't consciousness atrocious for Xander Schauffele having to instrumentality the Claret Jug erstwhile helium arrived astatine Royal Portrush to support his rubric successful the Open Championship. It's not similar helium had anyplace to support it.
Schauffele has won 8 times successful his PGA Tour career, including The Open, the PGA Championship and the Tour Championship. There's besides the Olympic golden medal from Tokyo successful 2021.
Where to support it all? Not astatine his house. Schauffele said his parents support each his trophies, "probably successful a slope vault." They person a location successful San Diego, and his begetter is gathering a spot connected Kauai, surviving successful what Stefan Schauffele calls "the container."
The golden medal?
"I really person nary thought wherever that is, to beryllium wholly honest," Schauffele said.
It's not each that astonishing considering however elemental Schauffele and his woman similar to live. He celebrates a small much than Scottie Scheffler, but overmuch similar the world's No. 1 player, it's connected to the adjacent tourney to commencement over.
"What americium I going to bash with it? I don't truly invitation radical implicit to my house. Am I conscionable going to spell look astatine it myself?" Schauffele said. "I don't privation to locomotion into a trophy country like, 'Look however large I am.' I was conscionable raised to deliberation that way, and it's benignant of stuck."
That begs the question: What is connected the shelves of their Florida location if not trophies?
"My woman hung up immoderate pictures of maine successful my gym of maine winning the Olympic medal, and she enactment it truthful precocious up I can't scope it," Schauffele said. "I person to get a ladder now, and it bothers me. If anything, enactment up maine successful a Masters jacket, similar that would piss maine off, you cognize what I mean? Something similar that is much motivating."
If it were up to Schauffele, helium would bent photos of his dogs. Or nothing. Maybe a clock.
"I'm ever late, truthful possibly a timepiece would beryllium bully for me," Schauffele said.
He said Ryder Cup skipper Keegan Bradley has told him to beryllium definite to bask large wins, and Schauffele figures helium volition bash that astatine immoderate point.
"But close present I truly privation to support my caput down and support charging," helium said.
