MASTERS TOURNAMENT

April 12, 2026

Xander Schauffele

Quick Quotes

.

Q. Are we back to normality? This is where it should be?

XANDER SCHAUFFELE: Yeah, I think the way I felt this week, I feel like I played better than what I shot. Sometimes that's how golf goes. You need a few things to go your way, a few lip-out putts to lip in. But for the most part I felt like I controlled my ball and wasn't in too many weird spots. Just struggled on the greens a little bit overall.

I've got something good coming around the corner here. I'm playing pretty nice.

Q. In the scheme of being back after recovering, how does it feel?

XANDER SCHAUFFELE: Yeah, I think in terms of coming back, I definitely feel a lot better. I don't think about injury at all for a good three or four months, which is really nice. I think when you get hurt, just from what I learned, you think about it a little bit too much, especially when things aren't going great.

It's nice to be able to focus on playing well and focus on working on my game and getting stronger and things of that nature.

Q. Talking about that and the pain of when you are injured, what you see with Collin who's a good friend this week --

XANDER SCHAUFFELE: Yeah, sort of non-contact, just making a swing, that's as scary as it gets because we swing for a living, and we need to swing and make a lot of swings. I definitely feel for him because that's a tricky spot to be in. I just saw him at 9-under, so clearly he's found something.

Q. What comes next for you and the outlook for the next major?

XANDER SCHAUFFELE: Yeah, definitely just use this. This is a really tough property. The course is really tricky. If you're playing good golf around here or at least top-tenning around here, you know you're playing pretty good golf. It doesn't mean you can't go play better somewhere else.