Xander Schauffele dominated the 2024 PGA Championship with a file spherical of 62 photographs. It was the bottom spherical in PGA Championship historical past and a brand new course file at Valhalla Golf Membership. It additionally units the file for the bottom spherical of a Main Championship. That is the fourth time a participant has performed within the spherical of 62 at a serious match. One of many earlier circumstances was Xander Schauffele himself, who additionally opened the 2023 US Open in Los Angeles with a spherical of 62.
Xander Schauffele on his 62 on the PGA Championship
THE HOST: Xander Schauffele joins us now for the 106th PGA Championship. Xander, that was an important begin for you in the present day. What are your ideas in your spherical?
XANDER SCHAUFFELE: Yeah, it is an important begin to an enormous match. One which I’ll at all times take with me in fact. It is solely Thursday. That is about it.
Q. Do you’re feeling like you might be enjoying the perfect golf of your profession proper now?
XANDER SCHAUFFELE: Most likely, yeah. I believe there are occasions if you really feel you may management the ball very nicely, you may see the greens very nicely, you may chip very nicely. However over an extended time frame, it’s troublesome to keep up excessive efficiency.
Sure, I’d say it is extremely shut, if not very shut.
Q. JT stated you hit the ball rather a lot additional. How has that given you a bonus on the golf course this 12 months?
XANDER SCHAUFFELE: Sure, positively an enormous benefit. I had a sense that more often than not out right here you solely have your eyes on the truthful. It does not matter in case you hit a ball 325 yards. If it results in the tough, it’s of no use to you. You’d higher be 300 yards in the course of the golf green.
However general it is a good feeling to know that I can hit the ball fairly far with out attacking it on a regular basis.
Q. After a spherical like this, do you utilize tomorrow as a possibility to clear the air, or do you utilize it to construct on tomorrow as a result of you recognize what you have achieved in the present day?
XANDER SCHAUFFELE: A bit little bit of each. Once we exit tomorrow at 2 pm, the course will probably be – the greens will in all probability be a little bit bumpier as a result of there are lots of people on the course. Who is aware of, perhaps it’s going to rain, then the course may play utterly completely different.
If I’m going to mattress understanding I am enjoying ok golf, I can put the matter apart.
Q. Are you aware the final individual to shoot a spherical of 62 at a rally?
XANDER SCHAUFFELE: Did I do it earlier than Rickie?
Q. You had been the final one after. Which spherical would you say was higher evaluating the 2 days?
XANDER SCHAUFFELE: I do not know. I cannot be choosy. I at all times love spherical 62 in massive scale.
Q. Whenever you assume again on this spherical, what shot or putt will you keep in mind probably the most?
XANDER SCHAUFFELE: Most likely 12, the worst gap I’ve performed. By some means I pulled out 3 items of wooden. I requested Austin how far we had been from the outlet. He stated 225 out of the tough. I believed it was going to be a reasonably robust par.
So, I minimize it up there after which I put it to fifteen toes someplace on the inexperienced and I used to be in a position to make that putt early within the spherical, which was actually vital for me.
Q. We have talked earlier than in regards to the distinction between not successful and, and I discussed, “failing.” It’s clear that the sport is what it’s. More often than not you do not win. How do you construct your resilience and the way do you construct that resilience you want?
XANDER SCHAUFFELE: Yeah, I believe when you do not win, you need to win much more, as bizarre as it’s. At the least for me, I react to it and I would like it increasingly more and extra, and that makes me work tougher and tougher and tougher.
The summit appears a good distance off and I really feel like I nonetheless have plenty of work to do. However I’m slowly working as much as it.
Q. I am curious in case you really feel you may be enjoying higher in the present day than you probably did in ’62.
XANDER SCHAUFFELE: That is not likely how I work. Whenever you need to follow now, there are at all times photographs you may choose aside or chips you may choose aside that you just assume you may have hit higher, however I am very proud of how I performed.
Q. At what level within the spherical do you know you had been going to publish a low sufficient quantity? Was that early?
XANDER SCHAUFFELE: No, not likely. I wasn’t rushing up and down 10. I used to be in a position to birdie on 11 and had a sweaty par on 12. It wasn’t precisely a dream begin. 1 by 3 would in all probability be a superb begin for me anyway, and if you shoot one thing low you form of get what you are doing as an alternative of eager about how low you need to shoot.