{"id":12568,"date":"2025-07-15T21:22:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T21:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/12568\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T21:22:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T21:22:04","slug":"xander-schauffele-doesnt-keep-trophies-no-idea-where-gold-medal-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/12568\/","title":{"rendered":"Xander Schauffele doesn’t keep trophies; ‘no idea’ where gold medal is"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jul 15, 2025, 04:25 PM ET<\/p>\n

PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland — Don’t feel bad for Xander Schauffele<\/a> having to return the Claret Jug when he arrived at Royal Portrush to defend his title in the Open Championship. It’s not as if he had anywhere to keep it.<\/p>\n

Schauffele has won eight times in his PGA Tour career, including The Open, the PGA Championship and the Tour Championship. There’s also the Olympic gold medal from Tokyo in 2021.<\/p>\n

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Where to keep it all? Not at his house. Schauffele said his parents keep all his trophies, “probably in a bank vault.” They have a home in San Diego, and his father is building a place on Kauai, living in what Stefan Schauffele calls “the container.”<\/p>\n

The gold medal?<\/p>\n

“I actually have no idea where that is, to be completely honest,” Schauffele said.<\/p>\n

It’s not all that surprising considering how simply Schauffele and his wife, Maya Lowe, prefer to live. He celebrates a little more than Scottie Scheffler<\/a>, but, much like with the world’s No. 1 player, it’s on to the next tournament to start over<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“What am I going to do with it? I don’t really invite people over to my house. Am I just going to go look at it myself?” Schauffele said. “I don’t want to walk into a trophy room like, ‘Look how great I am.’ I was just raised to think that way, and it’s kind of stuck.”<\/p>\n

Xander Schauffele kisses the Claret Jug after winning the Open Championship at Royal Troon in Troon, Scotland.\u00a0Pedro Salado\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

That begs the question: What is on the shelves of their Florida home if not trophies?<\/p>\n

“My wife hung up some pictures of me in my gym of me winning the Olympic medal, and she put it so high up I can’t reach it,” Schauffele said. “I have to get a ladder now, and it bothers me. If anything, put up me in a Masters jacket, like that would piss me off, you know what I mean? Something like that is more motivating.”<\/p>\n

If it were up to Schauffele, he would hang photos of his dogs. Or nothing. Maybe a clock.<\/p>\n

“I’m always late, so maybe a clock would be good for me,” Schauffele said.<\/p>\n

He said Ryder Cup captain Keegan Bradley<\/a> has told him to be sure to enjoy big wins, and Schauffele figures he will do that at some point.<\/p>\n

“But right now I really want to keep my head down and keep charging,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jul 15, 2025, 04:25 PM ET PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland — Don’t feel bad for Xander Schauffele having to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-12568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}