Xander Schauffele seems to have misunderstood the term, \u201cHe\u2019s got it in the bag.\u201d Or at the very least, he\u2019s taking it a bit too literally at Augusta National.<\/p>\n
The two-time major champ somehow found the bottom of a patron\u2019s shopping bag on the par-5 8th hole after an up-and-down start to his Masters on Thursday. It was his first missed fairway of the day, and he was eventually granted relief from the fan’s merchandise haul.<\/p>\n \u201cDon\u2019t think you can buy that at the merchandise shop!\u201d the commentary team quipped. \u201cThat\u2019s a first for me, Shane. A patron came for the gnome, left with Xander\u2019s golf ball.\u201d<\/p>\n There\u2019s been quite a hullabaloo regarding the Masters merch this year. Are people too focused on the gnomes<\/a>? Is the commercialization of the tournament<\/a> overshadowing the actual golf? In a funny way, Schauffele’s errant tee shot sums up that very paradox.<\/p>\n Thankfully, Schauffele managed to escape with a par. He\u2019s not going to let the Masters merch lunacy get in the way of the golf. Let that be a lesson to us all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Xander Schauffele seems to have misunderstood the term, \u201cHe\u2019s got it in the bag.\u201d Or at the very…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1657,12237,818,686,12239,12236,1282,82,3771,12238,1401,12234,12235],"class_list":["post-30487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-xander-schauffele","tag-augusta-national","tag-gnomes","tag-golf-money","tag-masters","tag-masters-2026-xander-schauffeles-tee-shot-somehow-ends-up-in-patrons-bag-for-first-missed-fairway-of-the-day","tag-masters-gnomes","tag-masters2026","tag-story","tag-viral-videos","tag-weird-golf","tag-xander-schauffele","tag-xander-schauffele-bag","tag-xander-schauffele-tee-shot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}