TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP

August 31, 2024

Xander Schauffele

East Lake Golf Club

Quick Quotes

Q. How would you describe the day?

XANDER SCHAUFFELE: Pretty bad. Got off to a bad start, and then I hit, I think, six fairways maybe, five or six fairways. I just haven't really hit any fairways all week. I think it was pretty good for me to shoot 7-under hitting seven fairways. That's literally as good as I could do. To do that, again, is a big ask.

Today I just didn't capitalize when I was in the fairway those six times.

Q. Is it still fighting that left miss or the fear of that?

XANDER SCHAUFFELE: Kind of hit it both ways today a little bit. Hit some left, hit some right. Yeah, got to straighten it out.

Q. Did you feel like you had figured out the driver heading into today?

XANDER SCHAUFFELE: Not really. I mean, just trying to make as many good swings as possible. Just felt a little shaky on some tee shots. There was a few fairways I haven't hit all week, so maybe it's a little bit mental there.

Yeah, just did some really small things poorly today. I could have shot -- I probably could have shot 2-under today, 3-under today. I was just not playing well enough to shoot consecutive 7-under pars.

You've got to be hitting at least 12 fairways to give yourself some serious looks and then obviously do a lot of good after that, but it starts with your ball on the short stuff.