Xander Schauffele looking for first PGA major title
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Xander Schauffele looking for first PGA major title

Xander Schauffele is inching nearer to historical past on Sunday at Valhalla Golf Course.

Main this entire week on the 2024 PGA Championship, Schauffele is close to the highest of the leaderboard for the Wanamaker Trophy.

This is all the things to find out about Schauffele and his pursuit of claiming his first PGA Main title on Sunday on the PGA Championship:

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Has Xander Schauffele ever received a PGA Main earlier than?

Regardless of being the No. 3 golfer on the earth and putting within the high 10 in eight occasions already this season on the PGA Tour, Schauffele doesn’t have a PGA Main title on his resume for his profession.

On high of that, Schauffele can be on a winless drought of three years in PGA Tour occasions as he has not received an occasion since 2022 when he received the Genesis Scottish Open, Vacationers Championship and Zurich Basic of New Orleans.

Schauffele has positioned himself properly heading into Sunday in ending that drought, as he shot a powerful 9-under-par of 62 complete end on Thursday within the opening spherical of the 2024 PGA Championship — which tied the most important scoring file together with the file for the bottom spherical in PGA Championship historical past. He adopted up that historic exhibiting with back-to-back 3-under par performances the final two days.

“Not successful makes you wish to win extra, as bizarre as that’s,” Schauffele mentioned after his spherical on Thursday. “For me, not less than, I react to it, and I would like it increasingly and extra, and it makes me wish to work more durable and more durable and more durable.”

If Schauffele can outlast Morikawa on Sunday for his first Wanamaker Trophy, he’ll change into the primary golfer since Morikawa in 2020 to win his first PGA Main title on the PGA Championship.

Xander Schauffele PGA main finishes

Schauffele’s greatest end on the PGA Championship got here in 2020 when he completed tied for tenth. He has completed because the runner-up twice, coming within the 2018 Open Championship after which within the 2019 rendition of The Masters.

This is a have a look at how Schauffele has fared in PGA majors since turning professional in 2015, in line with his PGA Tour profile web page:

  • 2024:
    • The Masters: 8
    • PGA Championship: TBD
    • U.S. Open: TBD
    • Open Championship: TBD
  • 2023:
    • The Masters: T-10
    • PGA Championship: T-18
    • U.S. Open: T-10
    • Open Championship: T-17
  • 2022:
    • The Masters: Missed minimize
    • PGA Championship: T-13
    • U.S. Open: T-14
    • Open Championship: T-15
  • 2021:
    • The Masters: T-3
    • PGA Championship: Missed minimize
    • U.S. Open: T-7
    • Open Championship: T-26
  • 2020:
    • The Masters: T-17
    • PGA Championship: T-10
    • U.S. Open: 5
    • Open Championship: N/A
  • 2019:
    • The Masters: T-2
    • PGA Championship: T-16
    • U.S. Open: T-3
    • Open Championship: T-41
  • 2018:
    • The Masters: T-50
    • PGA Championship: T-35
    • U.S. Open: T-6
    • Open Championship: T-2
  • 2017:
    • The Masters: N/A
    • PGA Championship: Missed minimize
    • U.S. Open: T-5
    • Open Championship: T-20

This is a have a look at how Schauffele has finished on the PGA Championship since 2020:

  • 2020: T-10
  • 2021: Missed the minimize
  • 2022: T-13
  • 2023: T-18
  • 2024: TBD