xander schauffele wiki : Alexander Victor Schauffele, commonly known as Xander Schauffele ( born October 25, 1993), is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour.
Schauffele was born in San Diego, California to a German/French naturalized immigrant father and a Taiwanese/Japanese naturalized immigrant mother. Schauffele's father has been his only swing coach throughout his golf career. The Schauffele teaching philosophy relies heavily on basic ball flight laws and golf club mechanics – as a result Schauffele had not seen his own swing until about age 18.
Two of Schauffele's great-grandfathers played soccer at the European premier level. Johann Hoffmann played for his Austria national soccer team and won multiple Austrian (SK Rapid Wien), Bohemian (DSV Saaz), and French (FC Sochaux; Racing Straßburg) national titles. Besides playing soccer for the German Bundesliga club VFB Stuttgart, Richard Schauffele excelled in track and field, garnering over 40 titles in discus, javelin and shot put for 2 clubs, the Stuttgarter Kickers and the Cannstatter Ruder-Club.
After turning professional in June 2015, Schauffele entered the 2015 Web.com Tour Qualifying Tournament in fall. He was runner up in first stage at Southern Dunes GC in Maricopa, Arizona. He went on to win second stage at Oak Valley GC in Beaumont, California and ultimately earned his Web.com Tour card in the finals in Florida in a tie for 40th.
Schauffele began the 2017 FedEx Cup Playoffs 33rd in the FedEx Cup standings. Entering the third and penultimate leg of the playoffs, the BMW Championship, he was 32nd, needing to move up at least two spots to advance to the Tour Championship. Schauffele played the final six holes of the tournament in 6 under par with a birdie-birdie-eagle-birdie-par-birdie finish and rose to 26th.
At the Tour Championship, Schauffele birdied the 72nd hole to win by one stroke over Justin Thomas, becoming the first rookie ever to win the Tour Championship. Schauffele's win also marked the first time a rookie has won any FedEx Cup playoff event.The win moved Schauffele to third place in the final FedEx Cup standings, bettering the previous best mark by a rookie held by Jordan Spieth by 4 positions. In addition to the $1,575,000 he received by winning the Tour Championship, he received an additional $2,000,000 for his 3rd place finish in the FedEx Cup, although the latter isn't counted as official earnings. The win also moved Schauffele to 32nd in the Official World Golf Ranking, up 267 spots from his 2016 year-end finish of No. 299, and gave him a three-year PGA Tour exemption through the 2019–20 season. Schauffele was voted "Rookie of the Year 2017" by his peers on October 2, 2017. He is the fourth member of the high school class of 2011 to earn PGA Tour Rookie of the Year honors, joining Jordan Spieth (2013), Daniel Berger (2015) and Emiliano Grillo (2016). Schauffele tied for second with a score of six-under-par at the 2018 Open Championship.
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