Xander Schauffle has been here before, but not within a while. Max Grayserman was in this position last year in this tournament. He was also in a similar place in the Classic Rocket, where he finished T2 in a play off.
After three rounds of 2025 Baycurrent Classic In Yokohama Country Club in Japan, Schauffle and Grayserman sit on top of the manager, tied on the 12th.
Schauffle won two diplomas last season, but has not put himself in quarrel much this season. A rib injury costs Schauffle one month of the early part of the season, and it has spent the rest of the year trying to rediscover its great winning form. Schauffle collided after returning from damage. He fought to make the cut at Arnold Palmer Invitational, and an 81 in the player championship led to a long session with a long string with coach Chris Como. that HEARINGWhich included a number of endings with a hand and wild feedback would come to determine a disappointing season for Schauffe-one he spent trying to iron bad habits that found their way at the pace with which he won in 2024.
“I would say bad habits,” Schauffle said in Scotti Open Genesis in July. “It was still new – the way I was moving the club last year was still new, and the bad place I got the club for this year was new. So I played a lot – or I hit many bad shots from a particular place but was home to me. I was playing from it, calling it short and I have been resting and closing. I know it.
Interview of Xander Schauffle after Baycurrent Classic Round 3
Schauffle went T8-T7 to the Scottish Open and Open championship before going T22-T28 on FedEx Cup’s first two legs to lose the tournament for the first time in his career. But he seems to have found something during the loss of the USA team Ryder in Bethpage Black. Schauffle went 3-1-0 to four sessions, including Jon Rahm’s beating on Sunday. His improved game continued this week in Japan. Schauffle opened with an equal 71, but fired a 63 Friday and supported it with a Saturday 67 to tie the Greyserman at the top of the manager’s table and placed himself in a position to catch a victory without a long year.
“This is the first time I have been in quarrel all year long, I believe, so it is beautiful,” Schauffle said after his round Saturday. “It’s been playing very good golf. The weather has been complicated, so proud of the war today.”
For Schauffle, after a year in search of the great killer he was made, it is best to start feeling like him again. But he knows that feeling can be quick in golf. Faith stands and grows as long as the arrow is showing up. But it can evaporate in a hurry.
“It’s growing up,” Schauffle told his faith. “It’s a tricky thing. It takes a while to grow up and leave quickly. I’m just trying to set one block after another and slowly grow that belief, as I said before, and so far we’ve done it.”
Schauffle has not been in quarrel this season, but he has nine PGA Tour’s wins, two diplomas and a golden Olympic medal under his belt. A winning Sunday would give Schauffe a call point on what would otherwise be a lost year. Raising the trophy on Sunday would also be especially important for Schauffle, given his family connection with Japan. His grandparents are in place watching him this week. His mother grew up in Japan. It would also be Schauffle’s first victory as a father.
“This is far from now, but yes, to think in the future would be a tremendous feeling,” Schauffe said.
On the other side of Sunday’s duel in Yokohama is a 30-year-old Greyserman, who is still looking for his first PGA Tour victory.
In last year’s Baycurrent Classic, Greyserman caught the lead in the back Mother on Sunday, but Nico Echavarria filled his approach to the 72nd to make birds and beat Greyserman from a blow. It was one of the three endings of Grayserman races in 2024. He added another this year to the Rocket Classic 2025. Greyserman knocked on the door. He is sure that it is a matter when, not if he becomes the winner of the PGA Tour.
“Every time you don’t win or fall on your goal, I don’t think it’s a failure,” Greyserman said on Sunday about losing it last year. “When I look last year, I see: Was I in the last group on Sunday? Was I playing with a Prime Minister (Justin Thomas) as if I were playing with tomorrow?
Grayserman knows he will not be the crowd’s favorite on Sunday in Yokohama Country Club. The Japanese crowd will surely try to make schauuffle beyond the finish line. But that will not blame Grayerman as he seems to finally enter the winner’s circle.
“I played with him today, so there is one thing I can attract, but whether I play with Xander or, I don’t know, Tiger in his prime minister or any other guy here is the same golf,” Greyserman said. “So I think the crowd is rooting for Xander a little more than other people, I can understand that a little today. But a lot of experience past. The latest group on Sunday, I’ve done it before, I did it probably a few times. Just go out there and do the same thing I do every day.”
Schauffle and Grayserman will duel on Sunday with the former seeking to prove that he has finally found himself while the latter hopes to provide a dream he has left to pass through his finger several times before.
