{"id":576165,"date":"2026-04-10T15:53:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T15:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/576165\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T15:53:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T15:53:16","slug":"xander-schauffeles-shot-at-masters-lands-in-a-viewers-merchandise-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/576165\/","title":{"rendered":"Xander Schauffele’s shot at Masters lands in a viewer’s merchandise bag"},"content":{"rendered":"

AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) \u2014 Maybe gift shopping really is out of control at the Masters<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Xander Schauffele\u2019s tee shot on the par-5 eighth hole<\/a> Thursday at Augusta National ended up in somebody\u2019s merchandise bag, just a few feet to the left of the fairway. Schauffele used a tee to mark the spot, removed the ball and then handed off the bag to a woman in a pink and white outfit.<\/p>\n

He was able to play on without penalty and made par.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt just flew straight into the bag. It was a great break. That bounce would\u2019ve put me in the pine straw and who knows if I would\u2019ve had a shot to hit up the hill,\u201d Schauffele said after shooting a 2-under 70 in the first round.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo thanks to the lady on 8,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Schauffele shouldn\u2019t sell himself short for his own role in a solid first day. After his tee shot on the par-4 ninth ended up in some pine straw and his second shot found a bunker, he splashed out to within inches of the hole for a par.<\/p>\n

He made three birdies and two bogeys on the back nine.<\/p>\n

\u201cA little bit of a mixed bag,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

No pun intended, presumably.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP golf: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/golf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) \u2014 Maybe gift shopping really is out of control at the Masters. Xander Schauffele\u2019s tee…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[28358,9092,681,427,65256,2031,99,428,51195,11385],"class_list":{"0":"post-576165","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-augusta","9":"tag-ga-state-wire","10":"tag-georgia","11":"tag-golf","12":"tag-masters-golf-tournament","13":"tag-oddities","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-tennis","16":"tag-the-masters","17":"tag-xander-schauffele"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576165","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=576165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}