For the first time in 1391 days, Xander Schauffele will not be played on the weekend. But he won’t be worried about that either.
When his birdie putt slipped past the hole on his final hole Friday on the Torrey Pines North Course, Schauffele had missed the cut by one stroke. Open Farmers Insuranceending a streak of 72 consecutive cuts – the longest active streak on the PGA Tour.
Devastating, isn’t it? Not exactly.
“It’ll be nice to have the weekend off,” Schauffele said. “I’m going to go home and rest and regroup.”
Although Schauffele now resides in Jupiter, Fla. with his wife, Maya, and their infant son, Victor, “home” for him remains San Diego, where he was born and raised and where his parents still live, a quick drive from Torrey Pines.
“If I miss the cut in Charlotte or somewhere, I’d just stay in a hotel room,” Schauffele said. “I have the comfort of my family here to hang out. You know what, all said and done, it’s probably the best place to get lost.”
Comfort aside, it will be an unfamiliar feeling for Schauffele heading back into the weekend as his peers compete. The last time that happened was in April 2022, when he failed to make the weekend at the Masters.
The Farmers Insurance Open was Schauffele’s first start of the 2026 season. He attributed his struggles in part to equipment changes that left him searching, particularly with his driver.
“I don’t like to switch things and I’ve switched, and then when you come back things look kind of weird,” he said. “You start moving to fit the club and it affects everything in the bag. So it’s not a good place to do it.”
“The fact that I was close to making the cut is pretty amazing,” he added.
He had given himself a chance on the North course after opening with a 73 on the demanding South. But a bogey at the par-4 seventh on Friday proved costly and the reachable par-5 didn’t help.
“Going a driving par 4 and splitting two par 5s down the middle of the fairway — you deserve to miss the cut,” he said. “So here I am.”
With Schauffele’s upset, the current longest streak on Tour is now held by Scottie Scheffler with 65, which is itself a long way off the all-time mark of 142 held by Tiger Woods.
Entering this week at Torrey, Schauffele’s streak was the fifth-longest in tournament history, but he said it wasn’t weighing on his mind and that he wasn’t looking at the scoreboard.
“There’s no scoreboard on the North Course, so I missed my putt and looked at (caddie Austin Kaiser) and said, ‘Is that it?’ said Schauffele. “He said, Yeah, you’re done. And I was like, OK.”
Shrugs. That’s how it goes.
Schauffele now has the weekend to rest, but he won’t have to wait long to start a new streak. He is in the field at the WM Phoenix Open next week.
