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Wyndham Clark’s Gamers Championship ended violently. His birdie attempt on 18 — a putt to drive a playoff with Scottie Scheffler at 20-under par — fell into the left facet of the cup after which horseshoed viciously earlier than it lurched again out the entrance facet, the most effective place for a merciless staredown with the person who’d struck it. Clark’s likelihood on the win was all of a sudden, definitively snuffed out.
As for Clark’s enjoying associate Xander Schauffele? Whose day regarded, halfway by way of, prefer it could possibly be the largest of his PGA Tour profession? His event ended with a whimper. With a missed putt at 17 and an imprecise tee shot at 18 and a prolonged two-putt that cemented his loss by a single shot. The event that had felt like his all of a sudden wasn’t.
SCHAUFFELE SAID SOMETHING INTERESTING on Saturday night time, one thing he’s been discussing along with his swing coach Chris Como.
“A gentle drip caves a stone,” he stated, requested about his efforts to get higher.
A gentle drip caves a stone. I’d by no means heard it. I favored the best way he stated it. I puzzled the place it got here from. A Google search revealed zero actual matches, however there have been cousins.
There was this, from Margaret Atwood: “Water is affected person. Dripping water wears away a stone. Keep in mind that, my little one. Bear in mind you might be half water.”
And this, from Ovid: “Dripping water hollows out stone, not by way of drive however by way of persistence.”
It echoed the stonecutter’s credo, the one Kobe Bryant taped to his locker and Max Homa later borrowed as his personal ideology: “When nothing appears to assist, I’m going and take a look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, maybe 100 occasions with out as a lot as a crack exhibiting in it. But on the hundred and first blow it can break up in two, and I do know it was not that blow that did it, however all that had gone earlier than.”
Impressed to get dripping? Possibly hammering?
It’s an acceptable expression for Schauffele, who likes the lengthy view. The lengthy view has been good to him — he’s been excellent at golf for a really very long time, among the many greatest golfers on the earth for a half-decade or extra. He’s been a daily contender in main championships since then, too, logging 11 top-10s in 26 profession begins. His resume is dotted with notable wins: the Tour Championship in 2017, a World Golf Championship in 2018, the Match of Champions in 2019, Olympic gold in 2021, the elevated Vacationers Championship in 2022, the co-sanctioned Genesis Scottish Open the week after that. He’s been a key determine in Presidents Cups and Ryder Cups. He’s performed loads of profitable. However the 0-fer in majors nonetheless threatens to outline his terrific profession. Successful a Gamers Championship wouldn’t have modified his main whole. However it could have modified the dialog.
Developing brief, however, after getting so shut? That gave gas to the doubters.
“I’ll most likely be a part of them in [drinking] the Haterade at this second,” Schauffele stated, requested about his detractors. “However it’s what it’s. These suck. After I went to mattress final night time, it’s not precisely how I envisioned strolling off the 18th inexperienced. I’ll lick my wounds and proper again to it subsequent week.”
THERE’S MORE GOING ON IN THE BACKGROUND. There’s extra to the work. Extra proof that Schauffele is all in on the method of getting higher, that he’s hammering away more durable than he ever has. He moved to Florida final 12 months, the 12 months he turned 30, leaving his beloved West Coast behind. He left his lifelong swing coach — his father Stefan — behind, too; the 2 didn’t break up up however he’s been working with Chris Como on the day-to-day.
“From a really younger age, my dad instructed me, ‘[I’m] blissful that I could be your coach, however there is perhaps a time the place so as so that you can take it to the subsequent stage you might must go see another person.’ So he stated these phrases to me once I was a child, and he’ll nonetheless say them now.”
The subsequent stage looms. Collectively Schauffele and Como have been tweaking and he’s been selecting up swing velocity and selecting up distance, too. The work is working: This week marked his forty second consecutive made minimize and his seventh top-10 in his previous 10 begins. Behind Scheffler, the clear-cut World No. 1, you might make the case that Schauffele’s enjoying golf at as excessive a stage as anyone else.
That’s the lengthy view. That’s the dripping.
However there’s frustration, too. Whereas Sunday’s remaining spherical showcased a few of Schauffele’s greatest stuff — a clutch nine-footer for par at No. 5 stored him in a share of the lead, a 14-footer for birdie at No. 7 recreation him the outright benefit, and he navigated sensitive up-and-downs for birdie at No. 9 and No. 12 to sit down squarely within the driver’s seat — a number of high-profile missteps price him the event. An imprecise tee shot at No. 14 resulted in bogey. One other blocked drive at No. 15 led to a different bogey. His dynamic brief recreation couldn’t bail him out both time. Premature errors, he referred to as ’em.
“Once you’re making an attempt to win a event you’ve obtained to make these sketchy nine-footers,” he stated.
He’d been making ’em all week. He missed a nine-footer at No. 15. He missed an eight-footer at No. 17. And that was that. These echoed misses on the again 9 on the Genesis Invitational, the place Schauffele contended on Sunday earlier than fading to T4. They echoed runner-up finishes eventually 12 months’s Tour Championship and Wells Fargo Championship. They echoed top-five finishes at majors, six of ’em for his profession. This can be a sport of futility, in any case. When you’re in search of examples of a professional golfer’s failure, you must have loads of fodder.
Schauffele was intentional about taking this one on the chin.
“My dad instructed me a very long time in the past to commit, execute and settle for,” he stated. “I’m swallowing a heavy dose of acceptance proper now, however that’s type of what I did. I attempted to commit, I executed poorly on some pictures, and right here I’m accepting it.”
He admitted it harm, too. He stated that he was bathing in a “tub of distress.” Schauffele isn’t any stranger to a vivid flip of phrase.
However then there’s the massive image. That he performed towards one of many strongest fields in golf and misplaced solely to the most effective participant on the earth. That he tied for second with two different top-10 professionals.
And that the dripping continues.
Dylan welcomes your feedback at dylan_dethier@golf.com.
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Wyndham Clark’s Gamers Championship ended violently. His birdie attempt on 18 — a putt to drive a playoff with Scottie Scheffler at 20-under par — fell into the left facet of the cup after which horseshoed viciously earlier than it lurched again out the entrance facet, the most effective place for a merciless staredown with the person who’d struck it. Clark’s likelihood on the win was all of a sudden, definitively snuffed out.
As for Clark’s enjoying associate Xander Schauffele? Whose day regarded, halfway by way of, prefer it could possibly be the largest of his PGA Tour profession? His event ended with a whimper. With a missed putt at 17 and an imprecise tee shot at 18 and a prolonged two-putt that cemented his loss by a single shot. The event that had felt like his all of a sudden wasn’t.
SCHAUFFELE SAID SOMETHING INTERESTING on Saturday night time, one thing he’s been discussing along with his swing coach Chris Como.
“A gentle drip caves a stone,” he stated, requested about his efforts to get higher.
A gentle drip caves a stone. I’d by no means heard it. I favored the best way he stated it. I puzzled the place it got here from. A Google search revealed zero actual matches, however there have been cousins.
There was this, from Margaret Atwood: “Water is affected person. Dripping water wears away a stone. Keep in mind that, my little one. Bear in mind you might be half water.”
And this, from Ovid: “Dripping water hollows out stone, not by way of drive however by way of persistence.”
It echoed the stonecutter’s credo, the one Kobe Bryant taped to his locker and Max Homa later borrowed as his personal ideology: “When nothing appears to assist, I’m going and take a look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, maybe 100 occasions with out as a lot as a crack exhibiting in it. But on the hundred and first blow it can break up in two, and I do know it was not that blow that did it, however all that had gone earlier than.”
Impressed to get dripping? Possibly hammering?
It’s an acceptable expression for Schauffele, who likes the lengthy view. The lengthy view has been good to him — he’s been excellent at golf for a really very long time, among the many greatest golfers on the earth for a half-decade or extra. He’s been a daily contender in main championships since then, too, logging 11 top-10s in 26 profession begins. His resume is dotted with notable wins: the Tour Championship in 2017, a World Golf Championship in 2018, the Match of Champions in 2019, Olympic gold in 2021, the elevated Vacationers Championship in 2022, the co-sanctioned Genesis Scottish Open the week after that. He’s been a key determine in Presidents Cups and Ryder Cups. He’s performed loads of profitable. However the 0-fer in majors nonetheless threatens to outline his terrific profession. Successful a Gamers Championship wouldn’t have modified his main whole. However it could have modified the dialog.
Developing brief, however, after getting so shut? That gave gas to the doubters.
“I’ll most likely be a part of them in [drinking] the Haterade at this second,” Schauffele stated, requested about his detractors. “However it’s what it’s. These suck. After I went to mattress final night time, it’s not precisely how I envisioned strolling off the 18th inexperienced. I’ll lick my wounds and proper again to it subsequent week.”
THERE’S MORE GOING ON IN THE BACKGROUND. There’s extra to the work. Extra proof that Schauffele is all in on the method of getting higher, that he’s hammering away more durable than he ever has. He moved to Florida final 12 months, the 12 months he turned 30, leaving his beloved West Coast behind. He left his lifelong swing coach — his father Stefan — behind, too; the 2 didn’t break up up however he’s been working with Chris Como on the day-to-day.
“From a really younger age, my dad instructed me, ‘[I’m] blissful that I could be your coach, however there is perhaps a time the place so as so that you can take it to the subsequent stage you might must go see another person.’ So he stated these phrases to me once I was a child, and he’ll nonetheless say them now.”
The subsequent stage looms. Collectively Schauffele and Como have been tweaking and he’s been selecting up swing velocity and selecting up distance, too. The work is working: This week marked his forty second consecutive made minimize and his seventh top-10 in his previous 10 begins. Behind Scheffler, the clear-cut World No. 1, you might make the case that Schauffele’s enjoying golf at as excessive a stage as anyone else.
That’s the lengthy view. That’s the dripping.
However there’s frustration, too. Whereas Sunday’s remaining spherical showcased a few of Schauffele’s greatest stuff — a clutch nine-footer for par at No. 5 stored him in a share of the lead, a 14-footer for birdie at No. 7 recreation him the outright benefit, and he navigated sensitive up-and-downs for birdie at No. 9 and No. 12 to sit down squarely within the driver’s seat — a number of high-profile missteps price him the event. An imprecise tee shot at No. 14 resulted in bogey. One other blocked drive at No. 15 led to a different bogey. His dynamic brief recreation couldn’t bail him out both time. Premature errors, he referred to as ’em.
“Once you’re making an attempt to win a event you’ve obtained to make these sketchy nine-footers,” he stated.
He’d been making ’em all week. He missed a nine-footer at No. 15. He missed an eight-footer at No. 17. And that was that. These echoed misses on the again 9 on the Genesis Invitational, the place Schauffele contended on Sunday earlier than fading to T4. They echoed runner-up finishes eventually 12 months’s Tour Championship and Wells Fargo Championship. They echoed top-five finishes at majors, six of ’em for his profession. This can be a sport of futility, in any case. When you’re in search of examples of a professional golfer’s failure, you must have loads of fodder.
Schauffele was intentional about taking this one on the chin.
“My dad instructed me a very long time in the past to commit, execute and settle for,” he stated. “I’m swallowing a heavy dose of acceptance proper now, however that’s type of what I did. I attempted to commit, I executed poorly on some pictures, and right here I’m accepting it.”
He admitted it harm, too. He stated that he was bathing in a “tub of distress.” Schauffele isn’t any stranger to a vivid flip of phrase.
However then there’s the massive image. That he performed towards one of many strongest fields in golf and misplaced solely to the most effective participant on the earth. That he tied for second with two different top-10 professionals.
And that the dripping continues.
Dylan welcomes your feedback at dylan_dethier@golf.com.
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Wyndham Clark’s Gamers Championship ended violently. His birdie attempt on 18 — a putt to drive a playoff with Scottie Scheffler at 20-under par — fell into the left facet of the cup after which horseshoed viciously earlier than it lurched again out the entrance facet, the most effective place for a merciless staredown with the person who’d struck it. Clark’s likelihood on the win was all of a sudden, definitively snuffed out.
As for Clark’s enjoying associate Xander Schauffele? Whose day regarded, halfway by way of, prefer it could possibly be the largest of his PGA Tour profession? His event ended with a whimper. With a missed putt at 17 and an imprecise tee shot at 18 and a prolonged two-putt that cemented his loss by a single shot. The event that had felt like his all of a sudden wasn’t.
SCHAUFFELE SAID SOMETHING INTERESTING on Saturday night time, one thing he’s been discussing along with his swing coach Chris Como.
“A gentle drip caves a stone,” he stated, requested about his efforts to get higher.
A gentle drip caves a stone. I’d by no means heard it. I favored the best way he stated it. I puzzled the place it got here from. A Google search revealed zero actual matches, however there have been cousins.
There was this, from Margaret Atwood: “Water is affected person. Dripping water wears away a stone. Keep in mind that, my little one. Bear in mind you might be half water.”
And this, from Ovid: “Dripping water hollows out stone, not by way of drive however by way of persistence.”
It echoed the stonecutter’s credo, the one Kobe Bryant taped to his locker and Max Homa later borrowed as his personal ideology: “When nothing appears to assist, I’m going and take a look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, maybe 100 occasions with out as a lot as a crack exhibiting in it. But on the hundred and first blow it can break up in two, and I do know it was not that blow that did it, however all that had gone earlier than.”
Impressed to get dripping? Possibly hammering?
It’s an acceptable expression for Schauffele, who likes the lengthy view. The lengthy view has been good to him — he’s been excellent at golf for a really very long time, among the many greatest golfers on the earth for a half-decade or extra. He’s been a daily contender in main championships since then, too, logging 11 top-10s in 26 profession begins. His resume is dotted with notable wins: the Tour Championship in 2017, a World Golf Championship in 2018, the Match of Champions in 2019, Olympic gold in 2021, the elevated Vacationers Championship in 2022, the co-sanctioned Genesis Scottish Open the week after that. He’s been a key determine in Presidents Cups and Ryder Cups. He’s performed loads of profitable. However the 0-fer in majors nonetheless threatens to outline his terrific profession. Successful a Gamers Championship wouldn’t have modified his main whole. However it could have modified the dialog.
Developing brief, however, after getting so shut? That gave gas to the doubters.
“I’ll most likely be a part of them in [drinking] the Haterade at this second,” Schauffele stated, requested about his detractors. “However it’s what it’s. These suck. After I went to mattress final night time, it’s not precisely how I envisioned strolling off the 18th inexperienced. I’ll lick my wounds and proper again to it subsequent week.”
THERE’S MORE GOING ON IN THE BACKGROUND. There’s extra to the work. Extra proof that Schauffele is all in on the method of getting higher, that he’s hammering away more durable than he ever has. He moved to Florida final 12 months, the 12 months he turned 30, leaving his beloved West Coast behind. He left his lifelong swing coach — his father Stefan — behind, too; the 2 didn’t break up up however he’s been working with Chris Como on the day-to-day.
“From a really younger age, my dad instructed me, ‘[I’m] blissful that I could be your coach, however there is perhaps a time the place so as so that you can take it to the subsequent stage you might must go see another person.’ So he stated these phrases to me once I was a child, and he’ll nonetheless say them now.”
The subsequent stage looms. Collectively Schauffele and Como have been tweaking and he’s been selecting up swing velocity and selecting up distance, too. The work is working: This week marked his forty second consecutive made minimize and his seventh top-10 in his previous 10 begins. Behind Scheffler, the clear-cut World No. 1, you might make the case that Schauffele’s enjoying golf at as excessive a stage as anyone else.
That’s the lengthy view. That’s the dripping.
However there’s frustration, too. Whereas Sunday’s remaining spherical showcased a few of Schauffele’s greatest stuff — a clutch nine-footer for par at No. 5 stored him in a share of the lead, a 14-footer for birdie at No. 7 recreation him the outright benefit, and he navigated sensitive up-and-downs for birdie at No. 9 and No. 12 to sit down squarely within the driver’s seat — a number of high-profile missteps price him the event. An imprecise tee shot at No. 14 resulted in bogey. One other blocked drive at No. 15 led to a different bogey. His dynamic brief recreation couldn’t bail him out both time. Premature errors, he referred to as ’em.
“Once you’re making an attempt to win a event you’ve obtained to make these sketchy nine-footers,” he stated.
He’d been making ’em all week. He missed a nine-footer at No. 15. He missed an eight-footer at No. 17. And that was that. These echoed misses on the again 9 on the Genesis Invitational, the place Schauffele contended on Sunday earlier than fading to T4. They echoed runner-up finishes eventually 12 months’s Tour Championship and Wells Fargo Championship. They echoed top-five finishes at majors, six of ’em for his profession. This can be a sport of futility, in any case. When you’re in search of examples of a professional golfer’s failure, you must have loads of fodder.
Schauffele was intentional about taking this one on the chin.
“My dad instructed me a very long time in the past to commit, execute and settle for,” he stated. “I’m swallowing a heavy dose of acceptance proper now, however that’s type of what I did. I attempted to commit, I executed poorly on some pictures, and right here I’m accepting it.”
He admitted it harm, too. He stated that he was bathing in a “tub of distress.” Schauffele isn’t any stranger to a vivid flip of phrase.
However then there’s the massive image. That he performed towards one of many strongest fields in golf and misplaced solely to the most effective participant on the earth. That he tied for second with two different top-10 professionals.
And that the dripping continues.
Dylan welcomes your feedback at dylan_dethier@golf.com.
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Wyndham Clark’s Gamers Championship ended violently. His birdie attempt on 18 — a putt to drive a playoff with Scottie Scheffler at 20-under par — fell into the left facet of the cup after which horseshoed viciously earlier than it lurched again out the entrance facet, the most effective place for a merciless staredown with the person who’d struck it. Clark’s likelihood on the win was all of a sudden, definitively snuffed out.
As for Clark’s enjoying associate Xander Schauffele? Whose day regarded, halfway by way of, prefer it could possibly be the largest of his PGA Tour profession? His event ended with a whimper. With a missed putt at 17 and an imprecise tee shot at 18 and a prolonged two-putt that cemented his loss by a single shot. The event that had felt like his all of a sudden wasn’t.
SCHAUFFELE SAID SOMETHING INTERESTING on Saturday night time, one thing he’s been discussing along with his swing coach Chris Como.
“A gentle drip caves a stone,” he stated, requested about his efforts to get higher.
A gentle drip caves a stone. I’d by no means heard it. I favored the best way he stated it. I puzzled the place it got here from. A Google search revealed zero actual matches, however there have been cousins.
There was this, from Margaret Atwood: “Water is affected person. Dripping water wears away a stone. Keep in mind that, my little one. Bear in mind you might be half water.”
And this, from Ovid: “Dripping water hollows out stone, not by way of drive however by way of persistence.”
It echoed the stonecutter’s credo, the one Kobe Bryant taped to his locker and Max Homa later borrowed as his personal ideology: “When nothing appears to assist, I’m going and take a look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, maybe 100 occasions with out as a lot as a crack exhibiting in it. But on the hundred and first blow it can break up in two, and I do know it was not that blow that did it, however all that had gone earlier than.”
Impressed to get dripping? Possibly hammering?
It’s an acceptable expression for Schauffele, who likes the lengthy view. The lengthy view has been good to him — he’s been excellent at golf for a really very long time, among the many greatest golfers on the earth for a half-decade or extra. He’s been a daily contender in main championships since then, too, logging 11 top-10s in 26 profession begins. His resume is dotted with notable wins: the Tour Championship in 2017, a World Golf Championship in 2018, the Match of Champions in 2019, Olympic gold in 2021, the elevated Vacationers Championship in 2022, the co-sanctioned Genesis Scottish Open the week after that. He’s been a key determine in Presidents Cups and Ryder Cups. He’s performed loads of profitable. However the 0-fer in majors nonetheless threatens to outline his terrific profession. Successful a Gamers Championship wouldn’t have modified his main whole. However it could have modified the dialog.
Developing brief, however, after getting so shut? That gave gas to the doubters.
“I’ll most likely be a part of them in [drinking] the Haterade at this second,” Schauffele stated, requested about his detractors. “However it’s what it’s. These suck. After I went to mattress final night time, it’s not precisely how I envisioned strolling off the 18th inexperienced. I’ll lick my wounds and proper again to it subsequent week.”
THERE’S MORE GOING ON IN THE BACKGROUND. There’s extra to the work. Extra proof that Schauffele is all in on the method of getting higher, that he’s hammering away more durable than he ever has. He moved to Florida final 12 months, the 12 months he turned 30, leaving his beloved West Coast behind. He left his lifelong swing coach — his father Stefan — behind, too; the 2 didn’t break up up however he’s been working with Chris Como on the day-to-day.
“From a really younger age, my dad instructed me, ‘[I’m] blissful that I could be your coach, however there is perhaps a time the place so as so that you can take it to the subsequent stage you might must go see another person.’ So he stated these phrases to me once I was a child, and he’ll nonetheless say them now.”
The subsequent stage looms. Collectively Schauffele and Como have been tweaking and he’s been selecting up swing velocity and selecting up distance, too. The work is working: This week marked his forty second consecutive made minimize and his seventh top-10 in his previous 10 begins. Behind Scheffler, the clear-cut World No. 1, you might make the case that Schauffele’s enjoying golf at as excessive a stage as anyone else.
That’s the lengthy view. That’s the dripping.
However there’s frustration, too. Whereas Sunday’s remaining spherical showcased a few of Schauffele’s greatest stuff — a clutch nine-footer for par at No. 5 stored him in a share of the lead, a 14-footer for birdie at No. 7 recreation him the outright benefit, and he navigated sensitive up-and-downs for birdie at No. 9 and No. 12 to sit down squarely within the driver’s seat — a number of high-profile missteps price him the event. An imprecise tee shot at No. 14 resulted in bogey. One other blocked drive at No. 15 led to a different bogey. His dynamic brief recreation couldn’t bail him out both time. Premature errors, he referred to as ’em.
“Once you’re making an attempt to win a event you’ve obtained to make these sketchy nine-footers,” he stated.
He’d been making ’em all week. He missed a nine-footer at No. 15. He missed an eight-footer at No. 17. And that was that. These echoed misses on the again 9 on the Genesis Invitational, the place Schauffele contended on Sunday earlier than fading to T4. They echoed runner-up finishes eventually 12 months’s Tour Championship and Wells Fargo Championship. They echoed top-five finishes at majors, six of ’em for his profession. This can be a sport of futility, in any case. When you’re in search of examples of a professional golfer’s failure, you must have loads of fodder.
Schauffele was intentional about taking this one on the chin.
“My dad instructed me a very long time in the past to commit, execute and settle for,” he stated. “I’m swallowing a heavy dose of acceptance proper now, however that’s type of what I did. I attempted to commit, I executed poorly on some pictures, and right here I’m accepting it.”
He admitted it harm, too. He stated that he was bathing in a “tub of distress.” Schauffele isn’t any stranger to a vivid flip of phrase.
However then there’s the massive image. That he performed towards one of many strongest fields in golf and misplaced solely to the most effective participant on the earth. That he tied for second with two different top-10 professionals.
And that the dripping continues.
Dylan welcomes your feedback at dylan_dethier@golf.com.
Getty Pictures
Wyndham Clark’s Gamers Championship ended violently. His birdie attempt on 18 — a putt to drive a playoff with Scottie Scheffler at 20-under par — fell into the left facet of the cup after which horseshoed viciously earlier than it lurched again out the entrance facet, the most effective place for a merciless staredown with the person who’d struck it. Clark’s likelihood on the win was all of a sudden, definitively snuffed out.
As for Clark’s enjoying associate Xander Schauffele? Whose day regarded, halfway by way of, prefer it could possibly be the largest of his PGA Tour profession? His event ended with a whimper. With a missed putt at 17 and an imprecise tee shot at 18 and a prolonged two-putt that cemented his loss by a single shot. The event that had felt like his all of a sudden wasn’t.
SCHAUFFELE SAID SOMETHING INTERESTING on Saturday night time, one thing he’s been discussing along with his swing coach Chris Como.
“A gentle drip caves a stone,” he stated, requested about his efforts to get higher.
A gentle drip caves a stone. I’d by no means heard it. I favored the best way he stated it. I puzzled the place it got here from. A Google search revealed zero actual matches, however there have been cousins.
There was this, from Margaret Atwood: “Water is affected person. Dripping water wears away a stone. Keep in mind that, my little one. Bear in mind you might be half water.”
And this, from Ovid: “Dripping water hollows out stone, not by way of drive however by way of persistence.”
It echoed the stonecutter’s credo, the one Kobe Bryant taped to his locker and Max Homa later borrowed as his personal ideology: “When nothing appears to assist, I’m going and take a look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, maybe 100 occasions with out as a lot as a crack exhibiting in it. But on the hundred and first blow it can break up in two, and I do know it was not that blow that did it, however all that had gone earlier than.”
Impressed to get dripping? Possibly hammering?
It’s an acceptable expression for Schauffele, who likes the lengthy view. The lengthy view has been good to him — he’s been excellent at golf for a really very long time, among the many greatest golfers on the earth for a half-decade or extra. He’s been a daily contender in main championships since then, too, logging 11 top-10s in 26 profession begins. His resume is dotted with notable wins: the Tour Championship in 2017, a World Golf Championship in 2018, the Match of Champions in 2019, Olympic gold in 2021, the elevated Vacationers Championship in 2022, the co-sanctioned Genesis Scottish Open the week after that. He’s been a key determine in Presidents Cups and Ryder Cups. He’s performed loads of profitable. However the 0-fer in majors nonetheless threatens to outline his terrific profession. Successful a Gamers Championship wouldn’t have modified his main whole. However it could have modified the dialog.
Developing brief, however, after getting so shut? That gave gas to the doubters.
“I’ll most likely be a part of them in [drinking] the Haterade at this second,” Schauffele stated, requested about his detractors. “However it’s what it’s. These suck. After I went to mattress final night time, it’s not precisely how I envisioned strolling off the 18th inexperienced. I’ll lick my wounds and proper again to it subsequent week.”
THERE’S MORE GOING ON IN THE BACKGROUND. There’s extra to the work. Extra proof that Schauffele is all in on the method of getting higher, that he’s hammering away more durable than he ever has. He moved to Florida final 12 months, the 12 months he turned 30, leaving his beloved West Coast behind. He left his lifelong swing coach — his father Stefan — behind, too; the 2 didn’t break up up however he’s been working with Chris Como on the day-to-day.
“From a really younger age, my dad instructed me, ‘[I’m] blissful that I could be your coach, however there is perhaps a time the place so as so that you can take it to the subsequent stage you might must go see another person.’ So he stated these phrases to me once I was a child, and he’ll nonetheless say them now.”
The subsequent stage looms. Collectively Schauffele and Como have been tweaking and he’s been selecting up swing velocity and selecting up distance, too. The work is working: This week marked his forty second consecutive made minimize and his seventh top-10 in his previous 10 begins. Behind Scheffler, the clear-cut World No. 1, you might make the case that Schauffele’s enjoying golf at as excessive a stage as anyone else.
That’s the lengthy view. That’s the dripping.
However there’s frustration, too. Whereas Sunday’s remaining spherical showcased a few of Schauffele’s greatest stuff — a clutch nine-footer for par at No. 5 stored him in a share of the lead, a 14-footer for birdie at No. 7 recreation him the outright benefit, and he navigated sensitive up-and-downs for birdie at No. 9 and No. 12 to sit down squarely within the driver’s seat — a number of high-profile missteps price him the event. An imprecise tee shot at No. 14 resulted in bogey. One other blocked drive at No. 15 led to a different bogey. His dynamic brief recreation couldn’t bail him out both time. Premature errors, he referred to as ’em.
“Once you’re making an attempt to win a event you’ve obtained to make these sketchy nine-footers,” he stated.
He’d been making ’em all week. He missed a nine-footer at No. 15. He missed an eight-footer at No. 17. And that was that. These echoed misses on the again 9 on the Genesis Invitational, the place Schauffele contended on Sunday earlier than fading to T4. They echoed runner-up finishes eventually 12 months’s Tour Championship and Wells Fargo Championship. They echoed top-five finishes at majors, six of ’em for his profession. This can be a sport of futility, in any case. When you’re in search of examples of a professional golfer’s failure, you must have loads of fodder.
Schauffele was intentional about taking this one on the chin.
“My dad instructed me a very long time in the past to commit, execute and settle for,” he stated. “I’m swallowing a heavy dose of acceptance proper now, however that’s type of what I did. I attempted to commit, I executed poorly on some pictures, and right here I’m accepting it.”
He admitted it harm, too. He stated that he was bathing in a “tub of distress.” Schauffele isn’t any stranger to a vivid flip of phrase.
However then there’s the massive image. That he performed towards one of many strongest fields in golf and misplaced solely to the most effective participant on the earth. That he tied for second with two different top-10 professionals.
And that the dripping continues.
Dylan welcomes your feedback at dylan_dethier@golf.com.
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Wyndham Clark’s Gamers Championship ended violently. His birdie attempt on 18 — a putt to drive a playoff with Scottie Scheffler at 20-under par — fell into the left facet of the cup after which horseshoed viciously earlier than it lurched again out the entrance facet, the most effective place for a merciless staredown with the person who’d struck it. Clark’s likelihood on the win was all of a sudden, definitively snuffed out.
As for Clark’s enjoying associate Xander Schauffele? Whose day regarded, halfway by way of, prefer it could possibly be the largest of his PGA Tour profession? His event ended with a whimper. With a missed putt at 17 and an imprecise tee shot at 18 and a prolonged two-putt that cemented his loss by a single shot. The event that had felt like his all of a sudden wasn’t.
SCHAUFFELE SAID SOMETHING INTERESTING on Saturday night time, one thing he’s been discussing along with his swing coach Chris Como.
“A gentle drip caves a stone,” he stated, requested about his efforts to get higher.
A gentle drip caves a stone. I’d by no means heard it. I favored the best way he stated it. I puzzled the place it got here from. A Google search revealed zero actual matches, however there have been cousins.
There was this, from Margaret Atwood: “Water is affected person. Dripping water wears away a stone. Keep in mind that, my little one. Bear in mind you might be half water.”
And this, from Ovid: “Dripping water hollows out stone, not by way of drive however by way of persistence.”
It echoed the stonecutter’s credo, the one Kobe Bryant taped to his locker and Max Homa later borrowed as his personal ideology: “When nothing appears to assist, I’m going and take a look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, maybe 100 occasions with out as a lot as a crack exhibiting in it. But on the hundred and first blow it can break up in two, and I do know it was not that blow that did it, however all that had gone earlier than.”
Impressed to get dripping? Possibly hammering?
It’s an acceptable expression for Schauffele, who likes the lengthy view. The lengthy view has been good to him — he’s been excellent at golf for a really very long time, among the many greatest golfers on the earth for a half-decade or extra. He’s been a daily contender in main championships since then, too, logging 11 top-10s in 26 profession begins. His resume is dotted with notable wins: the Tour Championship in 2017, a World Golf Championship in 2018, the Match of Champions in 2019, Olympic gold in 2021, the elevated Vacationers Championship in 2022, the co-sanctioned Genesis Scottish Open the week after that. He’s been a key determine in Presidents Cups and Ryder Cups. He’s performed loads of profitable. However the 0-fer in majors nonetheless threatens to outline his terrific profession. Successful a Gamers Championship wouldn’t have modified his main whole. However it could have modified the dialog.
Developing brief, however, after getting so shut? That gave gas to the doubters.
“I’ll most likely be a part of them in [drinking] the Haterade at this second,” Schauffele stated, requested about his detractors. “However it’s what it’s. These suck. After I went to mattress final night time, it’s not precisely how I envisioned strolling off the 18th inexperienced. I’ll lick my wounds and proper again to it subsequent week.”
THERE’S MORE GOING ON IN THE BACKGROUND. There’s extra to the work. Extra proof that Schauffele is all in on the method of getting higher, that he’s hammering away more durable than he ever has. He moved to Florida final 12 months, the 12 months he turned 30, leaving his beloved West Coast behind. He left his lifelong swing coach — his father Stefan — behind, too; the 2 didn’t break up up however he’s been working with Chris Como on the day-to-day.
“From a really younger age, my dad instructed me, ‘[I’m] blissful that I could be your coach, however there is perhaps a time the place so as so that you can take it to the subsequent stage you might must go see another person.’ So he stated these phrases to me once I was a child, and he’ll nonetheless say them now.”
The subsequent stage looms. Collectively Schauffele and Como have been tweaking and he’s been selecting up swing velocity and selecting up distance, too. The work is working: This week marked his forty second consecutive made minimize and his seventh top-10 in his previous 10 begins. Behind Scheffler, the clear-cut World No. 1, you might make the case that Schauffele’s enjoying golf at as excessive a stage as anyone else.
That’s the lengthy view. That’s the dripping.
However there’s frustration, too. Whereas Sunday’s remaining spherical showcased a few of Schauffele’s greatest stuff — a clutch nine-footer for par at No. 5 stored him in a share of the lead, a 14-footer for birdie at No. 7 recreation him the outright benefit, and he navigated sensitive up-and-downs for birdie at No. 9 and No. 12 to sit down squarely within the driver’s seat — a number of high-profile missteps price him the event. An imprecise tee shot at No. 14 resulted in bogey. One other blocked drive at No. 15 led to a different bogey. His dynamic brief recreation couldn’t bail him out both time. Premature errors, he referred to as ’em.
“Once you’re making an attempt to win a event you’ve obtained to make these sketchy nine-footers,” he stated.
He’d been making ’em all week. He missed a nine-footer at No. 15. He missed an eight-footer at No. 17. And that was that. These echoed misses on the again 9 on the Genesis Invitational, the place Schauffele contended on Sunday earlier than fading to T4. They echoed runner-up finishes eventually 12 months’s Tour Championship and Wells Fargo Championship. They echoed top-five finishes at majors, six of ’em for his profession. This can be a sport of futility, in any case. When you’re in search of examples of a professional golfer’s failure, you must have loads of fodder.
Schauffele was intentional about taking this one on the chin.
“My dad instructed me a very long time in the past to commit, execute and settle for,” he stated. “I’m swallowing a heavy dose of acceptance proper now, however that’s type of what I did. I attempted to commit, I executed poorly on some pictures, and right here I’m accepting it.”
He admitted it harm, too. He stated that he was bathing in a “tub of distress.” Schauffele isn’t any stranger to a vivid flip of phrase.
However then there’s the massive image. That he performed towards one of many strongest fields in golf and misplaced solely to the most effective participant on the earth. That he tied for second with two different top-10 professionals.
And that the dripping continues.
Dylan welcomes your feedback at dylan_dethier@golf.com.
Getty Pictures
Wyndham Clark’s Gamers Championship ended violently. His birdie attempt on 18 — a putt to drive a playoff with Scottie Scheffler at 20-under par — fell into the left facet of the cup after which horseshoed viciously earlier than it lurched again out the entrance facet, the most effective place for a merciless staredown with the person who’d struck it. Clark’s likelihood on the win was all of a sudden, definitively snuffed out.
As for Clark’s enjoying associate Xander Schauffele? Whose day regarded, halfway by way of, prefer it could possibly be the largest of his PGA Tour profession? His event ended with a whimper. With a missed putt at 17 and an imprecise tee shot at 18 and a prolonged two-putt that cemented his loss by a single shot. The event that had felt like his all of a sudden wasn’t.
SCHAUFFELE SAID SOMETHING INTERESTING on Saturday night time, one thing he’s been discussing along with his swing coach Chris Como.
“A gentle drip caves a stone,” he stated, requested about his efforts to get higher.
A gentle drip caves a stone. I’d by no means heard it. I favored the best way he stated it. I puzzled the place it got here from. A Google search revealed zero actual matches, however there have been cousins.
There was this, from Margaret Atwood: “Water is affected person. Dripping water wears away a stone. Keep in mind that, my little one. Bear in mind you might be half water.”
And this, from Ovid: “Dripping water hollows out stone, not by way of drive however by way of persistence.”
It echoed the stonecutter’s credo, the one Kobe Bryant taped to his locker and Max Homa later borrowed as his personal ideology: “When nothing appears to assist, I’m going and take a look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, maybe 100 occasions with out as a lot as a crack exhibiting in it. But on the hundred and first blow it can break up in two, and I do know it was not that blow that did it, however all that had gone earlier than.”
Impressed to get dripping? Possibly hammering?
It’s an acceptable expression for Schauffele, who likes the lengthy view. The lengthy view has been good to him — he’s been excellent at golf for a really very long time, among the many greatest golfers on the earth for a half-decade or extra. He’s been a daily contender in main championships since then, too, logging 11 top-10s in 26 profession begins. His resume is dotted with notable wins: the Tour Championship in 2017, a World Golf Championship in 2018, the Match of Champions in 2019, Olympic gold in 2021, the elevated Vacationers Championship in 2022, the co-sanctioned Genesis Scottish Open the week after that. He’s been a key determine in Presidents Cups and Ryder Cups. He’s performed loads of profitable. However the 0-fer in majors nonetheless threatens to outline his terrific profession. Successful a Gamers Championship wouldn’t have modified his main whole. However it could have modified the dialog.
Developing brief, however, after getting so shut? That gave gas to the doubters.
“I’ll most likely be a part of them in [drinking] the Haterade at this second,” Schauffele stated, requested about his detractors. “However it’s what it’s. These suck. After I went to mattress final night time, it’s not precisely how I envisioned strolling off the 18th inexperienced. I’ll lick my wounds and proper again to it subsequent week.”
THERE’S MORE GOING ON IN THE BACKGROUND. There’s extra to the work. Extra proof that Schauffele is all in on the method of getting higher, that he’s hammering away more durable than he ever has. He moved to Florida final 12 months, the 12 months he turned 30, leaving his beloved West Coast behind. He left his lifelong swing coach — his father Stefan — behind, too; the 2 didn’t break up up however he’s been working with Chris Como on the day-to-day.
“From a really younger age, my dad instructed me, ‘[I’m] blissful that I could be your coach, however there is perhaps a time the place so as so that you can take it to the subsequent stage you might must go see another person.’ So he stated these phrases to me once I was a child, and he’ll nonetheless say them now.”
The subsequent stage looms. Collectively Schauffele and Como have been tweaking and he’s been selecting up swing velocity and selecting up distance, too. The work is working: This week marked his forty second consecutive made minimize and his seventh top-10 in his previous 10 begins. Behind Scheffler, the clear-cut World No. 1, you might make the case that Schauffele’s enjoying golf at as excessive a stage as anyone else.
That’s the lengthy view. That’s the dripping.
However there’s frustration, too. Whereas Sunday’s remaining spherical showcased a few of Schauffele’s greatest stuff — a clutch nine-footer for par at No. 5 stored him in a share of the lead, a 14-footer for birdie at No. 7 recreation him the outright benefit, and he navigated sensitive up-and-downs for birdie at No. 9 and No. 12 to sit down squarely within the driver’s seat — a number of high-profile missteps price him the event. An imprecise tee shot at No. 14 resulted in bogey. One other blocked drive at No. 15 led to a different bogey. His dynamic brief recreation couldn’t bail him out both time. Premature errors, he referred to as ’em.
“Once you’re making an attempt to win a event you’ve obtained to make these sketchy nine-footers,” he stated.
He’d been making ’em all week. He missed a nine-footer at No. 15. He missed an eight-footer at No. 17. And that was that. These echoed misses on the again 9 on the Genesis Invitational, the place Schauffele contended on Sunday earlier than fading to T4. They echoed runner-up finishes eventually 12 months’s Tour Championship and Wells Fargo Championship. They echoed top-five finishes at majors, six of ’em for his profession. This can be a sport of futility, in any case. When you’re in search of examples of a professional golfer’s failure, you must have loads of fodder.
Schauffele was intentional about taking this one on the chin.
“My dad instructed me a very long time in the past to commit, execute and settle for,” he stated. “I’m swallowing a heavy dose of acceptance proper now, however that’s type of what I did. I attempted to commit, I executed poorly on some pictures, and right here I’m accepting it.”
He admitted it harm, too. He stated that he was bathing in a “tub of distress.” Schauffele isn’t any stranger to a vivid flip of phrase.
However then there’s the massive image. That he performed towards one of many strongest fields in golf and misplaced solely to the most effective participant on the earth. That he tied for second with two different top-10 professionals.
And that the dripping continues.
Dylan welcomes your feedback at dylan_dethier@golf.com.
Getty Pictures
Wyndham Clark’s Gamers Championship ended violently. His birdie attempt on 18 — a putt to drive a playoff with Scottie Scheffler at 20-under par — fell into the left facet of the cup after which horseshoed viciously earlier than it lurched again out the entrance facet, the most effective place for a merciless staredown with the person who’d struck it. Clark’s likelihood on the win was all of a sudden, definitively snuffed out.
As for Clark’s enjoying associate Xander Schauffele? Whose day regarded, halfway by way of, prefer it could possibly be the largest of his PGA Tour profession? His event ended with a whimper. With a missed putt at 17 and an imprecise tee shot at 18 and a prolonged two-putt that cemented his loss by a single shot. The event that had felt like his all of a sudden wasn’t.
SCHAUFFELE SAID SOMETHING INTERESTING on Saturday night time, one thing he’s been discussing along with his swing coach Chris Como.
“A gentle drip caves a stone,” he stated, requested about his efforts to get higher.
A gentle drip caves a stone. I’d by no means heard it. I favored the best way he stated it. I puzzled the place it got here from. A Google search revealed zero actual matches, however there have been cousins.
There was this, from Margaret Atwood: “Water is affected person. Dripping water wears away a stone. Keep in mind that, my little one. Bear in mind you might be half water.”
And this, from Ovid: “Dripping water hollows out stone, not by way of drive however by way of persistence.”
It echoed the stonecutter’s credo, the one Kobe Bryant taped to his locker and Max Homa later borrowed as his personal ideology: “When nothing appears to assist, I’m going and take a look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, maybe 100 occasions with out as a lot as a crack exhibiting in it. But on the hundred and first blow it can break up in two, and I do know it was not that blow that did it, however all that had gone earlier than.”
Impressed to get dripping? Possibly hammering?
It’s an acceptable expression for Schauffele, who likes the lengthy view. The lengthy view has been good to him — he’s been excellent at golf for a really very long time, among the many greatest golfers on the earth for a half-decade or extra. He’s been a daily contender in main championships since then, too, logging 11 top-10s in 26 profession begins. His resume is dotted with notable wins: the Tour Championship in 2017, a World Golf Championship in 2018, the Match of Champions in 2019, Olympic gold in 2021, the elevated Vacationers Championship in 2022, the co-sanctioned Genesis Scottish Open the week after that. He’s been a key determine in Presidents Cups and Ryder Cups. He’s performed loads of profitable. However the 0-fer in majors nonetheless threatens to outline his terrific profession. Successful a Gamers Championship wouldn’t have modified his main whole. However it could have modified the dialog.
Developing brief, however, after getting so shut? That gave gas to the doubters.
“I’ll most likely be a part of them in [drinking] the Haterade at this second,” Schauffele stated, requested about his detractors. “However it’s what it’s. These suck. After I went to mattress final night time, it’s not precisely how I envisioned strolling off the 18th inexperienced. I’ll lick my wounds and proper again to it subsequent week.”
THERE’S MORE GOING ON IN THE BACKGROUND. There’s extra to the work. Extra proof that Schauffele is all in on the method of getting higher, that he’s hammering away more durable than he ever has. He moved to Florida final 12 months, the 12 months he turned 30, leaving his beloved West Coast behind. He left his lifelong swing coach — his father Stefan — behind, too; the 2 didn’t break up up however he’s been working with Chris Como on the day-to-day.
“From a really younger age, my dad instructed me, ‘[I’m] blissful that I could be your coach, however there is perhaps a time the place so as so that you can take it to the subsequent stage you might must go see another person.’ So he stated these phrases to me once I was a child, and he’ll nonetheless say them now.”
The subsequent stage looms. Collectively Schauffele and Como have been tweaking and he’s been selecting up swing velocity and selecting up distance, too. The work is working: This week marked his forty second consecutive made minimize and his seventh top-10 in his previous 10 begins. Behind Scheffler, the clear-cut World No. 1, you might make the case that Schauffele’s enjoying golf at as excessive a stage as anyone else.
That’s the lengthy view. That’s the dripping.
However there’s frustration, too. Whereas Sunday’s remaining spherical showcased a few of Schauffele’s greatest stuff — a clutch nine-footer for par at No. 5 stored him in a share of the lead, a 14-footer for birdie at No. 7 recreation him the outright benefit, and he navigated sensitive up-and-downs for birdie at No. 9 and No. 12 to sit down squarely within the driver’s seat — a number of high-profile missteps price him the event. An imprecise tee shot at No. 14 resulted in bogey. One other blocked drive at No. 15 led to a different bogey. His dynamic brief recreation couldn’t bail him out both time. Premature errors, he referred to as ’em.
“Once you’re making an attempt to win a event you’ve obtained to make these sketchy nine-footers,” he stated.
He’d been making ’em all week. He missed a nine-footer at No. 15. He missed an eight-footer at No. 17. And that was that. These echoed misses on the again 9 on the Genesis Invitational, the place Schauffele contended on Sunday earlier than fading to T4. They echoed runner-up finishes eventually 12 months’s Tour Championship and Wells Fargo Championship. They echoed top-five finishes at majors, six of ’em for his profession. This can be a sport of futility, in any case. When you’re in search of examples of a professional golfer’s failure, you must have loads of fodder.
Schauffele was intentional about taking this one on the chin.
“My dad instructed me a very long time in the past to commit, execute and settle for,” he stated. “I’m swallowing a heavy dose of acceptance proper now, however that’s type of what I did. I attempted to commit, I executed poorly on some pictures, and right here I’m accepting it.”
He admitted it harm, too. He stated that he was bathing in a “tub of distress.” Schauffele isn’t any stranger to a vivid flip of phrase.
However then there’s the massive image. That he performed towards one of many strongest fields in golf and misplaced solely to the most effective participant on the earth. That he tied for second with two different top-10 professionals.
And that the dripping continues.
Dylan welcomes your feedback at dylan_dethier@golf.com.