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Many golfers had a good amount of disgust in the US Open last weekend at Oakmont Country Club in Pennsylvania.
Shane Lowry proclaimed externally: “F — This place” after missing a putt, and on Sunday, despite the late position of JJ Spaun to take home their first commander, only three people ended up below the pair in the final round.
One of those three players was Xander Schauffele, whose +6 was generally tied in the twelfth in the tournament. The conditions were brutal since the jump, but the twice older champion thought that the course was “very fair.”
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Xander Schauffele plays a shot in the first street during the third round of the Open Golf Tournament of US Open. (Charles Leclaire-Imagn images)
“Everyone had to play the same course,” Schauffele told Pak Gazette Digital in a recent interview.
Shauffele admitted that there were “strange breaks” that occurred throughout the weekend when the golfers made the line with danger. However, “you don’t have to hit him in the bunkers or in the rough, you can hit him in the streets.”
“I thought the course was fair. I thought it was more playable because it rained a little, and the streets and the greens were more indulgent,” he added. “You had to play golf extremely well, which is what you are supposed to do to win a US Open. You wear JJ to take control of that delay in the rain, which is what you are supposed to do to win and be an important champion there.”
Schauffele will be one of the several important champions on TPC River Highlands in Cromwell, Connecticut, this weekend for the Travelers Championship, where the last seven winning scores have been -22, -23, -19, -13, -19, -17 and -17, an opposite polar to the United States scores.
The PGA and the 2024 Open champion won travelers in 2022, and although everyone wants to shoot lower, Schauffele said that having both types of golf is a good balance.
Xander Schauffele holds the traveler championship trophy after winning the travel championship golf tournament. (Mandatory credit: Vincent Carchietta-USA Today Sports)
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“A mixture of both is nice. It is healthy. I have never moved away from the US Open Challenge, and I have never moved away from -25 winning a tournament,” said Schauffele. “If you had to play Oakmont in American open conditions every week for 20 weeks, you would wear out and vice versa. If you had to play a course in which 25-industry is winning for 20 weeks, you would also wear out. I think you have a division and a little variety is good for us.”
This year’s travelers have exactly what Schauffele wants, since his goal is to set fire before the open, the Fedex Cup and the Ryder Cup in Bethpage Black in what has been a “strange” season for him.
“They have definitely done some things for TPC River Highlands to be more difficult,” said Schauffele. “They used to be lower, the streets used to be wider, changed a couple of holes to make it more difficult and less friendly with the score … you are rewarded for very good shots, but there are water in many holes, deeply in a short sides pins, a guy who is next to you can be shooting low, but you can even be in the pair without feeling great. I don’t have to call it really good.
Xander Schauffele, on the left, shakes hand with his caddie, Austin Kaiser, after winning the golf tournament of the Travelers Championship. (Vincent Carchietta-USA Today Sports)
However, it will be a big difference of what happened in western Pennsylvania.
“It will be strange to be able to do seven or eight birdies in a round versus in Oakmont.”
