Top 99 Quotes & Sayings by Xander Schauffele
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Last updated on September 16, 2024.
I feel very American, but my upbringing was quite the opposite.
I pretty much figured out in grade school that we weren't the stereotypical American family.
I never really idolized any one golfer.
I don't sit at home and test my driver, you know.
I've had doubts at every stage of my career.
Just the ritual of feeling the grip in my fingers and making loose swings is relaxing.
My dad taught me how to get into clubs and what to look for in clubs, and he always stressed to me that a 3-wood, 4-wood or 5-wood was the toughest club to dial in and if you find a good one to keep it.
In golf I have my support team, and though I hit the shots, I say 'we' a lot, because 'we' made it happen.
I just still feel like an underdog. I feel like until you're No. 1, you're chasing.
I need to find a way to manage my time and be an adult.
It is never easy to have your dad as your swing coach.
Some say I don't show much emotion. That's just not my cup of tea.
Our job as players is to show up to tournaments, put on a show for The R&A and for the Tour and to handle our business.
I don't want one tournament to offset another. I want to be fresh and take full advantage of the opportunity I've been given.
I'm a pretty mellow guy, but I've got a fire burning inside, but you guys will probably never see that.
My body just won't let me hit it, like, 330 in the air.
I enjoy tough golf, I guess. There's something fun about it that other people may not think is fun.
It's all strange to me, but it's pretty cool when people know who you are.
I want to get to world No. 1. I want to win multiple majors. Plus, I hate losing - like, I really hate losing.
I've been trying to make my bed every day. Every time I wake up, I try and - someone told me there's been books about it, about how important it is to start the day with a win.
A conventional blade has more toe hang so that's for people who want to rotate the face more. I'm not that person. I don't have a strong arc to my stroke so the mallet works better for me.
The U.S. Open was a huge moment in my career. It was one of the biggest stages, and for me to be calm and collected throughout the week and just kind of hang on and tie for fifth was huge for me mentally.
For me personally, short game, bunker shots aren't too bad.
My dad always taught me to let the clubs talk. So if people don't know who I am, I guess I'm just not playing well enough.
Feel shots. Flops. Bump-and-runs. Those types of things are usually what go first for me when I haven't practiced much.
We've got the blue-collar pros here in San Diego.
For me the trickiest thing is figuring out the spin and loft.
I kind of enjoy just hanging back and relaxing, sort of the San Diego, Southern California vibe, whatever you want to call it.
I was out here at East Lake, on a property I had never seen, and I was just like a kid at Disneyland walking around. There was only 30 guys. Thinking about how this is the big goal everyone is looking forward to at the end of the year and I'm fortunate enough to make it.
I went to San Diego State and one of our home courses was Barona Creek. It's this open, no-tree look.
Coming out of college, you never really know how good you are, you've never played for money, you've put all your eggs in one basket and your whole life revolves around it. For a while, I didn't think I was going to be good enough.
I always felt like I was mentally tougher than the other kids.
Right now, my caddie has a nicer car than I do. That tells me a little something.
The only time I am an unhappy camper is when I feel like I'm treated unfairly.
If I ever felt sorry for myself, my dad and I would have this two-hour talk. He bred an underdog mentality into me from a younger age.
If I worked in a cubicle, I wouldn't want to leave work and see all 20 people from my office when I got home.
I like to consider that I have a good insight into other cultures because I grew up with my parents having different views on things. It makes traveling a lot easier, I do enjoy other cultures.
When I am playing my best, I am not worrying about a whole lot.
Taking care of the environment is important to me.
One of the best forcers was probably Tiger in his prime. He could force an outcome if he needed it.
If you play well, you can open doors.
Remember a few years ago when Tiger said his glutes shut off? I know he wasn't kidding because when I reach the top of my swing, like Tiger, I want to feel my right glute muscles firing.
Every pro has to decide what they want from their ball.
My dad was always very hard on me when it came to sports. He always used golf to teach me life lessons.
All the techniques to help stay calm and focused, to control your mind, have all really helped me.
As a rookie you sort of don't really know if you're good enough, and then you start listening to a bunch of random things or just out looking for a bunch of random things that don't help.
I've been called a cheater by my fellow opponents. It's all joking, but when someone yells 'cheater' in front of 200 people, to me it's not going to go down very well.
I'm an old soul.
Being from California, my parents are very eco-friendly and I feel like I've been nurtured by a tree-hugger family in a way.
I think getting your head in the right mental space is important, and maybe I do need to go back to my rookie vibes to where I'm very happy-go-lucky, nothing really matters.
Somewhere down the line I'd like to create a foundation that brings awareness to environmental protection, sustainability, the effects of pollution, and all of those things related to protecting nature.
I haven't really learned how to play great forceful golf. I sort of go with the flow, and if I handle my game properly, not too many mistakes should be made.
The first thing you do before you take a swing with a driver is put it down and see how it looks to your eye. If you don't like how it looks, it's going to be difficult to hit a good shot.
One of my big goals for 2019 is to make the cut at the Farmers.
My dad's European, so when I was a little kid, I couldn't wear things like Nike, so I grew up wearing Adidas.
I put little goals in place every day, and I think if you can kind of keep to the small things it's easier to capture the big picture at the end.
I'm not really much of a celebrating type.
I always felt there was a chip on my shoulder at the junior stage, the amateur stage.
I expect a lot from myself but, over time, I've learned to tame that.
I would gladly give up my driver if it's not conforming. But there's still 130 other players in the field that potentially have a nonconforming driver, as well.
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