Xander Schauffele

The American continued his rich vein of form ahead of next week's Open Championship at St Andrews.

This is the first of many co-sanctioned events and it’s an honour to win the first one.” Not going to put make-up on the pig here, it was a very average day. “It was a very stressful day.

Xander Schauffele, searching for his first major victory, heads to St. Andrews for the 2022 Open Championship as the hottest golfer in the world.

Birdies on Nos. 14 and 16, however, helped Schauffele pull away from the field, though a bogey on the 18th made his winning margin only one. Schauffele birdied his first two holes, but bogeys on three of the final four holes on the front nine gave others chasing him hope. It’s also Schauffele’s second consecutive professional win after he claimed the Travelers Championship two weeks ago in Connecticut. He’s the first golfer to win consecutive starts on the PGA Tour since Scottie Scheffler won the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play and the Masters.

Olympic champion Xander Schauffele survived a rollercoaster final round to secure his third win in succession in the £6.7million Genesis Scottish Open.

This is the first of many co-sanctioned events and it’s an honour to win the first one.” Not going to put make-up on the pig here, it was a very average day. “It was a very stressful day.

Olympic champion Xander Schauffele survived a rollercoaster final round to secure his third win in succession in the €7.9 million Genesis Scottish Open.

This is the first of many co-sanctioned events and it’s an honour to win the first one.” Not going to put make-up on the pig here, it was a very average day. “It was a very stressful day.

Scottish Open champion Xander Schauffele heads to St Andrews this week hoping to continue his rich vein of form in the 150th Open Championship.

“It’s going to be nice to just walk on property. It would have been cool to go with no fans and then to see it with fans; I missed out on that, which I’m totally fine with. I was ahead, behind, ahead, behind.

There isn't a hotter player on the planet entering the 150th Open than Xander Schauffele. Unfortunately, Schauffele admits himself, there may not be a more ...

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Olympic champion Xander Schauffele survived a rollercoaster final round to secure his third win in succession in the £6.7 million Genesis Scottish Open.

This is the first of many co-sanctioned events and it’s an honour to win the first one.” Not going to put make-up on the pig here, it was a very average day. “It was a very stressful day. Three-time major winner Jordan Spieth was within a shot of the lead when he birdied the 13th but followed that with a double bogey on the next and eventually signed for a 72 to finish in a tie for 10th. Just kept my head down and this is very rewarding. Schauffele, who came into the week on the back of victories in the Travelers Championship and JP McManus Pro-Am, took a two-shot lead into the final round and birdied the first two holes to immediately double his advantage.

Schauffele has won four times in the last 12 months, including his last two starts, and now heads for St. Andrews as the hottest player in the game.

The last player to win twice in a row before a major was Dustin Johnson in 2016, and then he tied for ninth in the British Open at Royal Troon. Spieth had two birdies, three bogeys and a double bogey on the back nine and shot 72 to tie for 10th. Equally important was the 17th, when he putted from behind the green some 8 feet by the hole and made it for par to keep his cushion. He started the final round with a two-shot lead and birdied the opening two holes. It was tougher for Alex Smalley, who only needed a par on the 18th to earn a spot. But he closed with a 75 and was headed back home across the Atlantic.

GULLANE, Scotland — Two shots ahead with 18-holes to play in the Genesis Scottish Open, Olympic champion Xander Schauffele was a strong favorite to claim ...

You get those nerves and those feelings and excitement and it's just a lot of fun.” So it was nice to hit some better shots down the stretch and calm the ship. And once that par went in on 17, I knew I could lag it up there on the last. And it wasn’t. But I got the ball in the hole and one better than everyone else. Suddenly four shots clear after birdies at each of his opening two holes, Schauffele was one behind by the turn courtesy of three bogeys in four holes from the sixth. Joohyung Kim of Korea pulled up in third place, undone by three putts on an 18th hole that not one of the 72-strong field managed to birdie during a blustery final day.

Here is a full breakdown of the purse and FedExCup points for winner Xander Schauffele and the rest of the players who made the cut at the Scottish Open.

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Xander Schauffele used power off the tee and an iron-clad game into the greens to win the Genesis Scottish Open.

In all Schauffele made 17 birdies to rank third in the field. A power-precision combination served Schauffele well at the Renaissance Club in winning his seventh PGA Tour title. Much like his win at his last PGA Tour start at the Travelers Championship, Schauffele made things more difficult than they needed to be.