Xander Schauffle gave advice to Justin Thomas because it wasn’t long before the roles turned back
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After Justin Thomas Returned his drought without a 1,064-day win Sunday on RBC Heritage, he Credited Xander Schauffle for his help The setting review feels that the desert as he wandered through the golf desert.
“No matter how ridiculous it is, a great help, I called Xander at the end of last year because I think he is one of the best nails in the bases and not just setting, but everything,” Thomas said after beat Andrew Novak in a play town golf links. “I was like,” Can I take your brain for like two or three hours, just talk to you about setting? “”
Thomas’s shop with Schauffle allowed him to realize that he had lost his “home base” for laying the bases that made him a great blow while setting up in world no. 1 in 2017-18. “The questions he asked me,” Thomas added, “made me realize that I am trying very difficult and am trying a lot of different things.”
Harbor Thomas’ city victory was due to much of his iron game; He ranked fifth in the strokes won: Access. But the flat stick also played a major role. Thomas was ranked third in strokes won: setting for the week, and he rolled in a 21-legged bird blow in the first Play off hole to win his 16th PGA Tour career victory.
On Monday, Schauffle minimized his role in promoting Thomas’s resurrection as a great holder as he spoke in a conference ahead of the 2025 PGA championship in 2025 Hollow Quail Club in Charlotte, where he will be the defensive champion.
“Jt, he played excellently,” Schauffle said. “I don’t think I really have any connection with him winning. He probably gave me a lot of credit. He was pretty front and asked if I could make a label for practice one day. When I’m in the city here (in Jupiter, Fla.), Jt is a well -known face I compete against.
“You know, I think more than everything, it was just a kind of research and maybe he was trying hard, and he has done so many good things in the past that it was a kind of perhaps an eye that opened my eyes, like,” I once did, three, four of the things we were talking “He feels like all the answers were right in front of him.
Thomas, who has two racing conclusions this season to go along with his RBC Heritage victory, ranks 24th in setting this season. This is a significant improvement from 2024 and ’23, when it ranked 174 and 135 respectively.
Schauffle had no problem helping Thomas try to reign the spark in the vase.
It was not long ago that the roles turned back.
“As I said, he is giving me a lot of credit,” Schauffle said. “He has always been so good. He has been a former numera 1 in the world. I am the one who was there before you feel like you need a little choice, you can always talk to any of the good around the area, which is a beautiful feeling.”
Schauffle and Thomas will be two of the fashion choices in next month’s PGA championship.
Thomas won the first from his two PGA championships in Quail Hollow in 2017, while Schauffle has two racing conclusions at the Wells Fargo championship, which most of the years was carried out in Quail Hollow.
“Writers call them horses for courses,” Schauffle said. “Golfists kind of game in extension and as certain courses for some reason. I’m sure there are some analytics or statistics that can support it. You just have to get a property and you have to feel good, and Vibe should be good, and I’ve had that feeling when property there.”
A win in Quail would make Schauffle only the third player returning to the PGA Championship in the Stroke-Play era, joining Tiger Woods and Brooks Koepka.
Schauffle’s path to PGA back-back championships will not be easy, with a revival Thomas, which now ranks 6th in the world, joining Scottie Scheffler and Last career Grand Slam Rory Mcilroy as possible favorites.
Mcilroy also has a record range in Quail Hollow, including escaping from Schauffle during the last round of last year’s Wells Fargo championship.
This is a loss that Schauffle remembers well, and he hopes to roll the scenario if the two will be in quarrel within weeks.
“The times I think of competing against him, I feel like he has got the best of me almost every time,” Schauffle told Mcilroy. “Thinking again in Quail, you know, I became the burden to hunt Rory Mcilroy, hitting it further and narrower than everyone, shredding and placing it better than everyone, and we saw how it looked in the birds, I don’t know, what it felt like any hole in the back of the ninth.
