Xander Schaufele’s first main breakthrough got here with large benefits. By successful the PGA Championship on Sunday with a birdie on the 72nd gap, Schaufele is exempt from the PGA Championship for the remainder of his profession and is assured a spot within the remaining three majors for the subsequent 5 years.
In fact, that job assure fuels rumors that Schaufele may transfer from the PGA Tour to LIV Golf and earn an enormous payday whereas being assured large publicity, which is normally more durable for LIV gamers with out world-ranking factors.
However Schaufele’s father, Stefan Schaufele, informed Golf.com that such a defection just isn’t within the playing cards.
“No probability,” Stefan Schaufele stated in an interview revealed on Monday. “Xander just isn’t after cash. Xander about inheritance. And I consider, like his father, he by no means stood an opportunity.”
The elder Schaufele, who has additionally been Xander’s lifelong swing coach, defined that the household has listened to LIV’s provides prior to now.
“What we stated to LIV in Saudi Arabia, when Xander was by my facet, was that if there is no such thing as a method again to the PGA Tour and if there is no such thing as a probability of getting factors on this planet rankings, we now have nothing to speak about,” stated Stefan Schaufele .
“Even when you throw lots of of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} at him. That phrase nonetheless stands.”
Stefan Schaufele used to talk overtly about cash matters. Finally yr’s Ryder Cup, he stated gamers needs to be paid on to take part (versus donating to their charities). He claimed his son virtually misplaced his spot on the US PGA of America staff after contract issues arose.
It was rumored that Schaufele and Patrick Cantlay didn’t put on their uniform headgear for the Ryder Cup in protest at not being compensated. This in flip fueled the rumors from Schauffele to LIV, as LIV continued to fend off the very best golfers on this planet with enormous assured payouts.
If not LIV, what’s subsequent for the 30-year-old PGA champion? Sooner or later, he can be a favourite in different specialties.
Schaufele additionally moved to No. 2 within the Official World Golf Rating on Monday, though he stated after Sunday’s victory that he nonetheless felt he was chasing world No. 1 Scotty Scheffler.
“These are actual targets and they’re alive, extra alive than yesterday,” Stefan Schaufele stated.
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