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PGA Championship 2025: “F*ck this Place!” Shane Lowry

The tournament proved to be a rollercoaster for Lowry – featuring powerful drives, tough setbacks, and raw emotion. After a promising start, his momentum was halted by an embedded ball that cost him a potential birdie opportunity and triggered his furious reaction.

Buried Ball Drama at PGA Championship

Lowry’s perfect drive on the 8th hole landed just 50 meters from the pin, setting up what should have been a simple approach. Instead, he faced a nightmare scenario when his ball became deeply embedded in another player’s pitch mark. Under golf’s strict rules, players only get free relief when embedded in their own pitch mark, forcing Lowry to play the difficult shot as it lay.

The Infamous “F*ck This Place!” Moment

His subsequent approach shot – normally a sure thing – missed the green entirely, sticking in the front bunker. This prompted Lowry’s explosive “Fuck this place!” outburst as he violently slammed his club into the ground, tearing up a large divot. While he executed the bunker shot, the ball landed well past the pin. His first putt to save par came up short, requiring another stroke to hole out.
This costly bogey ultimately proved decisive, with Lowry missing the cut by the narrowest of margins in a heartbreaking conclusion to his tournament.
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PGA Championship 2025:Phil Mickelsons Bunker Nightmare

After an opening-round 79 at the PGA Championship, Phil Mickelson was fighting to make the weekend cut – and initially appeared up for the challenge. Four birdies in five holes had him three under for the day and building momentum. But the greenside bunker on the 12th hole had other plans.

After reaching the sand with his approach shot, “Lefty” needed a staggering four attempts just to escape. Each time, his ball caught the lip and rolled back down. When he finally blasted out on his sixth stroke, he overshot the green completely. Two putts later, he carded a quadruple-bogey 8 that effectively ended his tournament.

Even back-to-back birdies on the next two holes couldn’t salvage his round after the disastrous 12th, though they did briefly get him back under par for the day.

PGA Championship: Watch Phil Mickelson’s Quadruple-Bogey Disaster

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PGA Championship 2025: All-inclusive for Fans

The 2025 PGA Championship at Quail Hollow Club is making a bold statement: Every ticket includes complimentary meals—outdoing even the legendary prices of the Masters. But how does the system work, and what does it mean for fans?

PGA Championship 2025: All-Inclusive for Golf Fans

The offer is part of the Championship+ Ticket, which has been tested since 2022 and is now available to all attendees for the first time. PGA Championship Director Jason Soucy explained the concept to the Charlotte Observer: The goal is to avoid long concession lines, provide a hassle-free experience, and invite fans to eat to their heart’s content.

A Wide Selection for Every Appetite

Alongside classic fare like hot dogs and cheeseburgers, the tournament offers gourmet creations such as Ham on Ciabatta with Gruyère cheese and honey-mustard dressing. Health-conscious fans can enjoy plant-based options like the Beyond Burger or a fresh Asian salad.
For lighter cravings, there’s a variety of crunchy snacks and sweet treats.

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Alcoholic Drinks: A Pricier Luxury

According to Golfweek, beer, cocktails and wine will cost fans extra. A basic beer starts at $12.50, Cocktails go up to $18.50 and wine is priced from $13.50. For an an added touch, guests can get their drink in a souvenir cup for $5 more.

Family-Friendly Golf Event

At the 2025 PGA Championship, up to two children under 15 get free admission with a paying adult—and they also enjoy the complimentary food. This makes the tournament not just a sporting highlight but also a family-friendly outing, positioning it as the perfect event for golf fans of all ages.

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PGA Championship 2025: “It sucks” – Xander Schauffele complains about mud balls

Due to the heavy rainfall in the run-up to the PGA Championship 2025, the course at Quail Hollow Golf Club is still wet and the surface is soft. As a result, balls are often digging in and considerable amounts of mud and dirt are sticking to the balls. This happened particularly frequently in Round 1 of the PGA Championship 2025 – the result was frustrated players who publicly voiced their displeasure, most notably Xander Schauffele.

PGA Championship 2025: Mudballs punish good shots

Normally, the “pick and clean” rule applies in such conditions: the ball may be picked up, cleaned and put back down near its original position. But at majors, this is avoided at all costs. The PGA of America announced in an official statement on the evening before the first round that there would be no preferred lies – so the ball must always be played as it lies.

However, if there is a lump of mud on the ball, and especially if it gets between the clubface and the ball, the ball flight and spin behavior become unpredictable. This was also the case for Xander Schauffele, who played together with Rory McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler in the star group. Both he and Scheffler had mud stuck to the ball on the 16th. Schauffele described the situation as “ridiculous” in an interview after the round:
“It is what it is, and a lot of guys are dealing with it, but it’s just unfortunate to be hitting good shots and to pay them off that way. It’s kind of stupid.”

He mishit his second shot into the left water hazard and ended up making double bogey. “I wouldn’t want to go in the locker room because I’m sure a lot of guys aren’t super happy with sort of the conditions there.” And: “It sucks that you’re kind of 50/50 once you hit the fairway.”

Negative effect of mud balls scientifically proven

Paul Wood, Vice President of Engineering at Ping, conducted research into the physics of mud balls and experimented with different conditions. The result: Overall, a significant reduction in flight distance was found, as the mud impairs energy transfer: It “swallows” some of the power that the club transfers to the ball. The direction is also affected: it is impossible to predict how a mud ball will fly – overall, there was a significantly greater dispersion than with clean balls. The mud makes the moment of impact and ball flight more inconsistent.

Scottie Scheffler also had to contend with a dirty ball on 16:
“It’s one of those deals where it’s frustrating to hit the ball in the middle of the fairway and get mud on it and have no idea where it’s going to go. I understand it’s part of the game, but there’s nothing more frustrating for a player. You spend your whole life trying to learn how to control a golf ball, and due to a rules decision all of a sudden you have absolutely no control over where that golf ball goes. But I don’t make the rules. I just have to deal with the consequences of those rules.”

But not all professionals share this opinion: Aaron Rai, who started with a round of 67, said that the PGA of America rules officials knew what they were doing. PGA Tour pro Alex Smalley also claimed: “It didn’t really affect many shots out there.”

However, with the weather forecast now promising dry and sunny conditions, the course will continue to dry out. But even this prospect did not make Xander Schauffele optimistic: “The mud balls are going to get worse. They’re going to get worse as the plays dries up. They’re going to get in that perfect cake zone to where it’s kind of muddy underneath and then picking up mud on the way through.”

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“Kept the Honor With a Double” – Scottie Scheffler at PGA Championship 2025

Teeing off in Thursday’s featured morning group at the 107th PGA Championship, the world’s top three players — Scottie Scheffler, Rory McIlroy, and Xander Schauffele — arrived at a rain-soaked Quail Hollow Club with lofty expectations and major pedigree. But on a damp and demanding layout, the trio encountered a rude welcome from “The Green Mile,” and particularly the par-4 16th, where all three made double bogey in stunning succession.

For Scheffler, currently ranked World No. 1, the round was a rollercoaster of momentum shifts. The Texan carded everything from chip-in eagle to water-ball double, ultimately grinding out a two-under 69 that kept him well in contention at T20 despite the chaos.

“I kept the honor with making a double on a hole,” Scheffler quipped afterward. “I think that will probably be the first and last time I do that in my career — unless we get some crazy weather conditions.”

Trouble on the 16th of the PGA Championship 2025: A Shared Collapse

Coming off an electric eagle on the par-5 15th — a 35-foot chip-in from short and right of the green — Scheffler appeared poised to climb the leaderboard. Instead, the 16th handed him an unwelcome dose of reality. After a perfect drive into the fairway, he found his approach shot sinking into the water, citing a muddied ball as the culprit.

“I hit it in the middle of the fairway, you’ve got mud on your ball, and it’s tough to control where it goes after that,” Scheffler explained. “You spend your whole life trying to learn how to control a golf ball, and due to a rules decision, all of a sudden you have absolutely no control. But I don’t make the rules. I just have to deal with the consequences.”

He wasn’t alone. Playing partners McIlroy and Schauffele also found disaster on the 535-yard hole. McIlroy’s drive hooked left into thick rough, leaving him with a steep sidehill lie. Attempting to escape, he slipped in the mud and barely advanced the ball, leading to a scrambling double bogey. Schauffele’s approach also found water from the fairway, undone by a similar mud ball — a rare display of collective vulnerability from golf’s elite.

“It’s not every day that one hole brings the top three players in the world to their knees,” one broadcaster aptly put it.

A Debate Over Mud and Rules

The conditions at Quail Hollow, already softened by days of heavy rain, led to significant player frustration over the decision not to allow preferred lies — colloquially known as “lift, clean, and place.”

Scheffler didn’t hide his dismay: “In American golf, it’s significantly different. When you have overseeded fairways that are not sand-capped, there’s going to be a lot of mud on the ball,” he said. “When you think about the purest test of golf, I don’t personally think hitting the ball in the middle of the fairway should get you punished for it.”

He later emphasized, however, that he wouldn’t let the ruling derail his tournament. “It cost me two shots today, and if I let it bother me, it could’ve cost me five more. But I didn’t. I just moved forward.”

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PGA Championship 2025: Favorites Falter as Local Hero Shines

The PGA Championship 2025 at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, North Carolina promised a spectacle – and delivered, albeit not in the way many expected. Almost quietly and unnoticed, Jhonattan Vegas made his way to the top of the 2025 PGA Championship leaderboard, teeing off in one of the final groups. The Venezuelan seized his chances on the wet course at Quail Hollow Club and took the lead at seven under par. And what was expected to be a showcase of golf’s elite turned into a struggle with the course, the weather – and themselves. The world’s top ten? Nowhere to be seen among the best ten of the day.

PGA Championship 2025: Scheffler, McIlroy, and Schauffele Struggle Together

Teeing off in the featured morning group, the world’s top three players set out to make an early statement. But on a damp and demanding Quail Hollow, Scheffler, McIlroy, and Schauffele encountered trouble – and plenty of it – particularly at the notorious par-4 16th hole, the gateway to the punishing finishing stretch known as the “Green Mile.” This marks the first time in at least three decades that not a single player from the top 10 of the world rankings is among the top ten of a major – after the first round.

All three carded double bogeys at the 16th, each falling victim to a mix of errant tee shots, muddy lies, and mistimed putts. “I kept the honor with making a double on a hole, and I think that will probably be the first and last time I do that in my career unless we get some crazy weather conditions,” Scheffler quipped after salvaging a respectable 69. McIlroy struggled with accuracy and posted a 74, while Schauffele’s 72 leaves him chasing going into Friday.

Vegas takes advantage of late tee time and pulls ahead

While much of the morning spotlight was on McIlroy, Scheffler, and Schauffele, it was ultimately Jhonattan Vegas who made the headlines. Starting in the penultimate group, the Venezuelan played a flawless round with seven birdies in total. He saved five of them for his final six holes, including one from over 20 feet on the difficult par-4 ninth – his final hole of the day. It was the best round of his major career – in his 45th attempt. Vegas hadn’t qualified for the PGA Championship in three years. Now, he’s in the lead.

Strong starts from Gerard and Davis

Trailing Vegas in a tie for second are Ryan Gerard and Cam Davis. For Ryan Gerard, this week marks his PGA Championship debut. But as a North Carolina native, Quail Hollow is hardly unfamiliar territory. A former UNC standout, Gerard has played this course since his college days and even attended events here as a junior fan – watching legends like Tiger Woods.

That comfort translated to a composed and confident 66, highlighted by four consecutive birdies on the back nine and a stunning chip-in eagle at the par-5 15th. Though bogeys on holes 16 and 17 denied him solo possession of the lead, Gerard drew strength from the local support.

Joining Gerard as second in the leaderboard is Cam Davis, who displayed a textbook performance on the greens. The Australian notched seven birdies and needed just 24 putts – the fewest of any player in the field.

Davis kept his composure throughout the round, only faltering with a bogey on the 18th after a poor approach from the rough. Still, his 66 was enough to secure a share of the overnight lead and send a clear message: the 2025 PGA Championship is wide open.

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PGA Championship 2025: Eric Cole Records First Hole-in-One in

It didn’t take long for the PGA Championship 2025 to deliver its first moment of brilliance. On Thursday afternoon at Quail Hollow Club, American Eric Cole made tournament headlines with a perfectly struck 7-iron on the 184-yard par-3 4th hole – his 13th of the day.

Cole’s tee shot pitched just short of the flagstick, bounced twice on the elevated green, and rolled cleanly into the cup. Initially frozen in disbelief, the 36-year-old quickly turned to celebrate as cheers erupted from the gallery and his playing partners.

Momentum shift after a shaky start at the PGA Championship 2025

Cole’s front nine had been less than ideal. After beginning the round on the 10th tee and reaching the turn at one under, the Californian stumbled with a bogey at the 1st and a costly double bogey on the par-4 2nd. But the ace at No. 4 provided immediate redemption — and a serious momentum swing.

The hole-in-one vaulted Cole from 92nd to T49 on the leaderboard, bringing him back to even par and right into the conversation early in the week at Quail Hollow.

First hole-in-one of the PGA Championship 2025

The PGA Championship’s official X (formerly Twitter) account was quick to capture the moment:

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WITB Tiger Woods – Equipment for the US Open 2024

After another month break Tiger Woods makes his next tournament appearance at the US Open 2024. The record golfer trusts a mix of TaylorMade golf clubs with his iconic Scotty Cameron putter and a Bridgestone golf ball.

WITB Tiger Woods for the US Open Golf 2024

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Driver: TaylorMade Qi10 LS (10.5°)

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3 wood: TaylorMade Qi10 (15°)

5 wood: TaylorMade M3 (19°)

Driving Iron: TaylorMade P770 (3)

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Irons: TaylorMade P7TW (4-PW)

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Wedges: TaylorMade Milled Grind 3 (56), Milled Grind 4 (60°)

Tiger Woods Putter (Image: Getty)

Putter: Scotty Cameron Newport 2 GSS

Ball: Bridgestone Tour B XS

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Watch: Bryson DeChambeau Yells at Ball Thief

Bryson DeChambeau was fully focussed in the final round of the 2024 PGA Championship, which was obvious to anyone watching. Nevertheless, he took the time to intervene when an injustice unfolded before his eyes. On the long walk from hole 9 to the tenth tee, the 2020 US Open winner threw his ball to a young boy. An adult man caught the ball in flight and tried to make off with the souvenir, but DeChambeau yelled at him to come back and told him to give the ball to the boy for whom the gift was intended.

PGA Championship 2024: Bryson DeChambeau orders ball thief back

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PGA Championship 2024 – Xander Schauffele: “I need to earn this”

Xander Schauffele won his first major championship at the PGA Championship 2024. The victory didn’t come easy with a close battle at the top until the last hole. After his round, Schauffele talked about his mindset during his final round but also in the prior to this tournament, with the pressure of being one of the best golfers without a major title.

Xander Schauffele talks about his win at the PGA Championship 2024

THE MODERATOR: 2024 PGA champion Xander Schauffele is with us now. Xander, first of all, congratulations. How does it feel to hoist your first Wanamaker Trophy?

XANDER SCHAUFFELE: It feels amazing. Just a wide range of emotions for me. Very satisfying win. I really can’t wait to get back and celebrate with my team.

Q. You said this week that not winning makes you want to win more. How determined were you to become a major champion?

XANDER SCHAUFFELE: Yeah, I mean, I’ve become very patient not knocking off any wins in the last couple years. The people closest to me know how stubborn I can be. Winning, I said it earlier, is a result. This is awesome. It’s super sweet. But when I break it down, I’m really proud of how I handled certain moments on the course today, different from the past.

Q. How tough was it with that battle with Bryson already posting 20-under?

XANDER SCHAUFFELE: I mean, I assumed — my goal was to get to 22 today. I told Austin when we turned, if I could get to 22, I think someone is going to have to beat me.

I really did not want to go into a playoff with Bryson. Going up 18 with his length, it’s not something that I was going to have a whole lot of fun with.

I was able to capture that moment there, getting up-and-down on 17 was really big, and then that chip there on 18 was big for me, as well. I just kept telling myself I need to earn this, earn this and be in the moment, and I was able to do that.

Xander Schauffele: “If you want to be a major champion, this is the kind of stuff you have to deal with”

Q. What were your emotions like when that putt was on its way on 18?

XANDER SCHAUFFELE: I was pretty nervous. I walked up, I saw a little left to right. I kept reading it, kept kind of panning. Started to look right to left to me and I thought, oh, my gosh, this is not what I want for a winning putt. Fortunately, it was uphill, it was six feet-ish. I ended up playing it straight. It did go left, caught the left side. Just so much relief. When it lipped in — I don’t really remember it lipping in, I just heard everyone roaring and I just looked up to the sky in relief.

Q. Can you walk us through your second shot on 18, including what you thought when you saw where it finally finished.

XANDER SCHAUFFELE: Yeah, 17 and 18 were kind of weird for me. 16, I hit a really good drive, had mud on the right side of my ball. Had an 8-iron in, wasn’t able to be super aggressive just because of the mud there. Kind of hung it out to the right. Mud didn’t affect it.

17, I just didn’t hit it high enough. I hit it hard enough, just not high enough, and it kind of hit the lip in the bunker there, wasn’t a great lie. So really happy with that.

18, I just kept telling myself, man, someone out there is making me earn this right now. I just kept grinding. I get up there and just kind of chuckled. I was like, if you want to be a major champion, this is the kind of stuff you have to deal with. So I dealt with it, and happily was able to push that thing up. My only concern was sort of shanking it from more of a baseball swing.

Q. Your major record before you got here from the outside always looked deeply impressive. Did you look at it that way, or were you more apt to look at it as lacking?

XANDER SCHAUFFELE: I don’t think I’d ever look at it as lacking. I looked at it as someone that is trying really hard and needs more experience. All those close calls for me, even last week, that sort of feeling, it gets to you at some point. It just makes this even sweeter. I told Todd Lewis, he asked me how I felt about the week, I said, it’ll make my next win even sweeter. I know it’s a major, but just winning in general this is as sweet as it gets for me.

Q. You’ve had the narrative thrown at you for at least the last few months, maybe the year. I know you said it wasn’t bothering you, but let’s be honest now; how annoying was it to hear from us over and over again, when is it going to come, and how did you use that as fuel?

XANDER SCHAUFFELE: Definitely a chip on the shoulder there. It just is what it is at the end of the day. You guys are asking the questions, probing, and I have to sit here and answer it. It’s a lot easier to answer it with this thing sitting next to me now, obviously.

It’s just fuel, fuel to my fire. It always has been growing up, and it certainly was leading up to this.

Q. You always, at the beginning of your career, fed off the underdog status. You almost had a lull when you became elite somewhat winning. How did you get back to believing the underdog again?

XANDER SCHAUFFELE: I referred to it earlier. All of us are climbing this massive mountain. At the top of the mountain is Scottie Scheffler. I won this today, but I’m still not that close to Scottie Scheffler in the big scheme of things.

I got one good hook up there in the mountain up on that cliff, and I’m still climbing. I might have a beer up there on that side of the hill there and enjoy this, but it’s not that hard to chase when someone is so far ahead of you.

“I believe in positive self-talk”

Q. I know as an athlete you always have to believe in yourself and believe that you’re going to win, but was there ever a moment that you maybe doubted that this major championship win would come when you look at all the great players out there who don’t have major titles?

XANDER SCHAUFFELE: I believe in positive self-talk. I will tell myself, I’ll speak to myself. I just kept doing it. When you believe something enough, it’ll happen.

I never really — it starts to wear on you, I’d say, and that’s kind of what I told Austin. I really want to make sure I make the right decisions. I don’t want to get impatient. I believed in what I can do, and this is just fruits of it.

Q. How key was it for you to post those back-to-back birdies after the lone bogey that you had on 10?

XANDER SCHAUFFELE: Yeah, it’s not like — I’ve made a stupid bogey before and I’ve hit a really good shot after that. Today I finally made those putts. I finally had enough pace or it lipped in or whatever you want to call it, it was my moment, and I was able to capitalize on some good iron shots coming in.

In those moments, you can kind of feel it, and in the past when I didn’t do it, it just wasn’t there, and today I could feel that it was there.

Q. Following up on that, what did you tell yourself after the 10th? And when you got up to the 11th green I believe Viktor had pulled even at the top and there was a scoreboard —

XANDER SCHAUFFELE: Yeah, I was looking at it. Typically — someone me like has pretty much tried everything, to be completely honest, that hasn’t won in two years. You try not to look at the leaderboards until the back nine, you try not to look at them early, you try not to look at them at all.

Today I looked at them. I looked at them all day. I really wanted to feel everything. I wanted to address everything that I was feeling in the moment.

I thought I had the lead, so I when looked up at the board I was like, oof, I saw Hovie was at 19, so I was back into chasing mode, and I knew that putt was really big in the tournament.

Q. What were the moments that you felt today you handled differently?

XANDER SCHAUFFELE: I mean, I didn’t get frustrated. On the first hole I just kept telling myself, just be calm, be patient, put a good stroke on this one. That went in.

On 3, I thought I hit a good putt, it looked like it kind of bounced to the right in some sort of mark that I didn’t see, that I didn’t fix, and it lipped out.

Made that good putt on 4. Missed that one on 3.

Then on 5, I left that short.

I just kept telling myself that — just weather the storm.

I knew that birdies had to be made, so there was some sort of aggression that I knew coming into today. It wasn’t like a tournament round where I could kind of sit back and shoot 2- or 3-under. It just wasn’t going to be enough. I knew that I needed to have some pace on my putts, some more aggressive lines coming into pins.

That putt on 5 — sorry, 6 was big for me. That par putt was big.

“I’ve done enough work, I’m good enough”

Q. When people would call you the best player never to win a major, how did you view that statement?

XANDER SCHAUFFELE: It’s just noise. That’s what I think. I thought I was. Not that people saying it made me think that. I just felt like I’ve done enough work, I’m good enough to do it. I just needed to shut my mind up and actually do it.

Q. Was there a moment where you felt the magnitude of the tournament? Was there a certain point in the round where you felt like, all right, this is big, this is a major, this is do-or-die time?

XANDER SCHAUFFELE: On 6, I felt like 6 to 7 was a really big stretch for me. I saw a bunch of guys putting that thing in the morning. There was mud on my ball. It was like into the grain, it was uphill. I saw DJ actually in coverage putt it up to two feet, and I was like, oh, that doesn’t look that bad. Then I bobbled my putt up the hill and it started bouncing early, and with the Zoysia it’s pretty dangerous to do that. I really calmed myself. I just said, greens are a little bit bumpy, just put a good stroke on it, and the rest is history. I was able to roll that one in, which was really big.

Then that putt on 7, too, and that sort of calmed me a little bit.

Then I was actually pretty calm when I made that putt on 9.

Then 10 I was a little greedy trying to hit that shot. I’d say that early stretch for me was really big.

Q. You talked about wanting to celebrate and looking forward to celebrating with everyone who was here. They were obviously super excited for the win. Can you tell us who is here and how influential or great have they been for your life and your golf?

XANDER SCHAUFFELE: Yeah. My uncle is my agent. He’s been with me from the beginning of the year. My brother cooks for me. He’s not a professional cook, but he can make some tasty food, so he’s been willing to help me. Hopefully, he stays out with me a little bit longer. He just got engaged.

My wife, she’s sort of the rock in my life. She’s constant for me. My two dogs. I had an old buddy and his girlfriend travel down from New York. I think you saw probably Max’s caddie Joe was there. He’s really close with Austin. I’m good buddies with Joe, and Dave, Taylor Moore’s caddie, as well. Those are the people that I saw coming off the green, and then Chris was there, as well. He kind of hung around and was here for it, which was awesome.

Q. Your dad has been such a part of this journey. Is it a little bit odd to not have him here in the biggest win, and how much is he in your head as you’re battling today?

XANDER SCHAUFFELE: Yeah, he was. He crept into my mind yesterday during an interview. I just said, I’m going to have to sneak back to that, commit, execute, accept. That’s something that he’s engrained in me since I was about nine years old. I was actually able to call him when I was standing, waiting to walk onto the 18th green. He was a mess. He was crying on the phone. It made me pretty emotional. I told him I had to hang up because I had to walk down. I couldn’t show up looking like the way I was.

Yeah, my parents have — they’re not here this week, but they know how important they are to me. My dad, his goal — he’s been my swing coach and my mentor my entire life, and his goal really was to — just like any good dad would want, just to set your kid up for a successful future. He really meant that. He was like, what capacity am I going to help you this week. He sent me positive texts throughout the week, all week, even last week, as well.

Now that I’m working with Chris, he feels like he can kind of take his hands off the wheel. He trusts him a lot, I trust him a lot.

My dad is at that stage in his life, I really want him to be happy, and I know this is going to bring him a ton of joy where he’s at in Hawai’i right now.

Q. You had a wonderful career, and I wonder, as you reflect back on the back few years, what do you feel has been the biggest hurdle to overcome to get to this point, to this magnificent moment in your life and career?

XANDER SCHAUFFELE: I mean, I’m a big believer of getting the right foundation, the right people around you, having a good team around you. I believe that if you put in the hard work and you let yourself do what you think you can do, you’re going to have some fruits to the labor.

To be specific about it, I’m not really sure, to be honest. I’ve felt like I’ve been on this sort of trending path for quite some time. I really had to stay patient and keep the self-belief up, and I was able to do both those things.

Q. I know one of your sayings has been a steady drip breaks the stone. I imagine this is what it looks like —

XANDER SCHAUFFELE: That’s actually what my dad texted me last night. In German though. I had to ask him what the translation was.

Q. I imagine that’s just something that you guys have shared is his sayings over the years. Is that kind of true?

XANDER SCHAUFFELE: Yeah, yeah. There’s been some famous German philosophers, and my dad, he was a bit of a reader growing up. I’m sure that’s where he got a lot of them from. He’s definitely put them in my brain.

Q. Does it add anything to this victory that you just posted the lowest 72-hole score in the history of a major championship, or you wouldn’t care whatever the winning score was?

XANDER SCHAUFFELE: I mean, it’s just the weather that came through. Valhalla is a big property, and the weather really — and the fog and all those things. If every day was like today, I think the greens would have been firmer, the fairways would have been firmer, it would have been harder to hit them, they would have been rolling off into the rough. Just had to take what the course was going to give me. Just getting to 21 just had to be done, and for it to be a part of history is obviously pretty cool.