Xander Schauffele Rise: A Favorite to Dominate Golf's Majors
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00:00Zander's been impressive. Zander has been impressive. And the biggest thing about why I feel like he's obviously the favorite right now to close this thing out, but to continue to playing well, he's going to the Olympics. He's the defending gold medal winner.
00:17Golly, there's a lot of value in Zander right now because he's the best scrambler and his ball striking is right up there with shop with with Sheffler and Sheffler is getting into this rut again with his putter.
00:30Right, and we don't like what we're seeing there.
00:36Kevin and I got to give that more thought because, you know, if you're talking about player of the year, there's just so much golf left to run with here.
00:44Not that the Olympics are going to play a big role there, but the playoffs are going to be a big deal because they're going to go head to head three more times.
00:51And if he has two majors, I mean, wagers should be weighed way more. And if I'm understanding the question correctly, I mean, if he pulls this thing off his his first major and his second major in the same season, all those top 10.
01:02I mean, I go back to Rome when everyone was being super critical and and we have all I have been critical of Zander over the years with Stefan, his dad being so involved in his camp.
01:14And in the fall, he stepped back and Zander made a choice. He made a leadership decision for his career to say, hey, I'm going to go and I'm going to be my own man.
01:24Now, I'm going to get my own coach, Chris Como. It's not going to be my dad anymore. My dad's taking a roll back. And, you know, all of this came true because his dad was in Hawaii when he won at Valhalla.
01:33And Stefan would have always been there. I mean, he was a presence on tour all the time. And for him to make that decision and to come away with the way that he has played all year.
01:44Kevin is really, really impressive. If he goes with two majors, I don't care about the six wins by Scheffler. He goes with two majors and he pulls off.
01:56At least another win in the playoffs, I think, by all means, he's the lead for player of the year.