Xander Schauffele returned to the winner’s circle with a one-shot victory on the PGA Championship, however may his history-making success result in extra main titles?
Schauffele silenced questions over his capacity to shut out tournaments by carding an excellent five-under 66 in the course of the last day at Valhalla, with a birdie on the 72nd gap sufficient to edge out Bryson DeChambeau after an exciting Sunday.
The Olympic gold medallist equalled the bottom spherical in males’s main historical past with a 62 on the opening day and ended the week on 21 beneath – the bottom 72-hole rating in majors,within the course of changing into the fifth consecutive American main champion.
Xander Schauffele turned the primary participant in PGA Championship historical past to card a spherical of 62 with a sensational efficiency on day one at Valhalla.
Schauffele had solely transformed two of his earlier eight 54-hole leads or co-leads on the PGA Tour previous to Sunday’s win, with the 30-year-old additionally posting 12 main top-10 finishes with out success till lifting the Wanamaker Trophy.
The win lifts him above Rory McIlroy to second within the newest world rankings, and Schauffele is now more likely to be among the many favourites at subsequent month’s US Open – a event at which he has completed no worse than 14th in seven earlier appearances – and The Open at Royal Troon later this summer time.
Xander Schauffele claimed a maiden main with a birdie on the ultimate gap of the PGA Championship at Valhalla Golf Membership.
“I believe he’ll go on and win a number of and I do suppose he’ll go on and win an Open, as a result of he is a correct participant who can form it each methods,” two-time DP World Tour winner Anthony Wall advised the Sky Sports activities Golf podcast.
“Now he has acquired over the road, I believe he’ll go forward and win one other one fairly shortly. He is that kind of character, just a little bit like a Brooks Koepka – he burst on the scene, went quiet and now has received a number of, so Schauffele might be a kind of.
“I believe he has an ideal probability at Troon. He had an ideal probability even when he hadn’t received the PGA Championship, as a result of he is that kind of participant. He simply sticks round and that is what it takes to win majors, as a result of folks love to present them away as a result of they’re so onerous to win.”
What else is on the podcast?
Gary Murphy and Anthony Wall be part of common host Josh Antmann to look again at an exciting main end, with the trio reflecting on Schauffele’s earlier near-misses and the way DeChambeau contending for majors is sweet for the game.
Bryson DeChambeau shot a seven-under-par 64 in the course of the last spherical of the PGA Championship at Valhalla.
They appear again at eventful week for world No 1 Scottie Scheffler, who completed tied-eighth regardless of being arrested forward of his second spherical, plus the opposite speaking factors from a gripping main in Kentucky.
There’s dialogue on Nelly Korda’s sixth LPGA Tour victory in seven begins, in addition to a look forward to all of this week’s DP World Tour motion and dwell golf on Sky Sports activities.
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