Xander Schauffele 's Rise in Golf: Consistency & Power Play
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00:00When you look at Zander and Scotty, both the three under, how dangerous do they feel?
00:10Very dangerous.
00:11I think Zander, the work that he's done, so Zander has always been one of the steadiest,
00:15most consistent players on tour since he kind of came on tour and is a guy that hits the
00:19ball very straight, is a phenomenal iron player, phenomenal with the long irons and is an incredibly
00:25consistent putter.
00:26So all those things, obviously, very good things.
00:29What he did in the offseason to kind of take him to this next level and win that PGA Championship
00:33and now find himself in more of these elite-tier conversations was add a ton of speed and distance
00:38that came with that.
00:39He did a bunch of speed training, hitting the ball a lot further.
00:43That helps, right?
00:44So I think Zander at three under on a day that, again, if we're saying, if we're thinking
00:49the scoring conditions are going to be better and that we're going to see a lot of guys
00:53going deep, you can refer right back to the PGA Championship where the story of that entire
00:57week was taking it deep and scoring, that on a moving day, I like Zander to rocket up
01:01that leaderboard, barring the weather changing or something that we can't see happening for
01:06Zander.
01:07And the same for Scottie.
01:08I mean, Scottie's always going to be there, one under through three holes, a guy that
01:12is very suited to this golf course, a guy that can play well in wind, and then a guy
01:17without wind who can take it deep.
01:19So I think both those guys, look, I love Shane where he is.
01:21He's suited for this test, but those guys are lurking.