told reporters<\/a> after finishing tied for 28th at the BMW Championship on Sunday. <\/p>\n\u201cIt\u2019s the worst combo. Some of us do it, some of us don\u2019t. It\u2019s been a while since I have, and I did it for a few weeks now, and it sucked.\u201d<\/p>\n
Schauffele, 31, is the third-ranked golfer in the world behind Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy, so finishing 42nd in the FedEx Cup standings is a significant step below his standards even with a slew of solid results.<\/p>\n
Xander Schauffele reads a putt during the first round of the BMW Championship on Aug. 14, 2025. IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n
The biggest falloff came on the green, where he went from 12th in strokes gained putting last season to 131st in 2025.<\/p>\n
Schauffele made the cut at all four majors, finishing no worse than 28th. However, he did not have a single top five in any of the 15 events he played.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt some point I\u2019m going to sit back and reflect and try and learn something from it,\u201d said Schauffele, who missed two months at the start of the season with a rib injury. <\/p>\n
Xander Schauffele voiced frustration with his play of late after the BMW Championship. Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, it was mentally a long season for me even though it was short. So, physically I feel a lot better, which is a plus. No sort of recurring injury, which is a plus. About the only positives I can think of so far.\u201d<\/p>\n
Schauffele will now wait until he, along with much of the US Ryder Cup team, is expected to play the Procore Championship in the second week of September.<\/p>\n
Schauffele is one of the six players guaranteed a spot on the US team, though his frustration of late makes him far from a sure thing to secure points against a stacked European squad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What a difference a year makes. Xander Schauffele stamped himself as one of the premier players in golf…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":156747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[1430,1456,62,67,132,68,10133],"class_list":{"0":"post-156746","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-pga-tour","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us","14":"tag-xander-schauffele"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115051958408994425","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}