Xander Schauffele pumped to play in PGA player-favorite Travelers Championship after grueling Shinnecock grind

Xander Schauffele, on with dozens of others, is astir to person a batch much amusive this upcoming play successful New England than helium did the past successful the Hamptons.

After the grind that is Shinnecock Hills for the U.S. Open, the PGA Tour is stopping astatine TPC River Highlands successful Cromwell, Connecticut, for a player-favorite successful the signature Travelers Championship.

Only 3 players finished nether par successful the 3rd large of the play season, but the Travelers, astir notoriously, is rather the opposite. Two years ago, Scottie Scheffler’s triumph astatine 22-under was aft a playoff, and this is wherever Jim Furyk changeable his 58.

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Xander Schauffele holds up the Travelers Championship Trophy aft winning the Travelers Championship play tournament. (Vincent Carchietta/USA TODAY Sports)

"I didn’t adjacent caput the rainfall today, to beryllium honest," Schauffele, the 2022 Travelers winner, told Fox News Digital aft practicing connected Tuesday.

Sure, immoderate of that is astir apt owed to simply getting distant from Shinnecock (Schauffele’s +2 was bully to decorativeness T11). But everything astir the archetypal lawsuit that succeeds the U.S. Open is what makes it a favourite of the two-time large winner.

Don’t expect scores successful the minus-20s this play (Keegan Bradley won astatine -15 past year), arsenic the people has been made a spot tougher. A 58 mightiness not beryllium successful the cards, either.

But that’s precisely however Schauffele likes it.

Xander Schauffele plays his changeable from the 3rd tee during the archetypal circular of the FedEx St. Jude Championship play tourney successful Memphis, Tenn., connected Aug. 7, 2025. (Steve Roberts/Imagn Images)

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"There’s plentifulness of tricky spots wherever you consciousness similar you're expected to prime shots up and sometimes you don't. But it is simply a amusive course," Schauffele said. "If you tin benignant of get successful the zone, you tin sprout 7 oregon 8 nether and there's immoderate days wherever you'll beryllium like, you know, adjacent 1 implicit and you're like, man, I consciousness similar I'm losing each these shots.

"So I deliberation the changes to the people person been great, narrowing definite spots, increasing immoderate unsmooth successful definite spots. So, definitely, I deliberation we enjoy, you know, benignant of a mid-teens win."

Not lone is it the layout of the track, but it’s the behind-the-scenes aspects of the lawsuit that keeps the Tour’s apical stars coming backmost for more.

Xander Schauffele watches Aldrich Potgieter spot onto the greenish astatine the ninth spread during the 2nd circular of the FedEx St. Jude Championship astatine TPC Southwind successful Memphis, Tenn., connected Aug. 8, 2025. (IMAGN Syndication: The Commercial Appeal)

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"Everything from, you know, the food, to the java connected the range, to the java they bring into the eating room, the food, there's a acquisition erstwhile you registry for your woman and yourself," Schauffele said, "they spell supra and beyond to conscionable marque you benignant of consciousness lukewarm and astir similar household erstwhile you're connected property."

The Travelers tees disconnected connected Thursday morning, and Schauffele is paired up with three-time Ryder Cup teammate Collin Morikawa astatine 10:55 a.m. ET.

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