Xander Schauffele Captures Major No. 2 At Open Championship, Continues American Dominance
Heading into 2024, the biggest knock on Xander Schauffele was that he was arguably the best player in the world to never win a major championship.
Not only did he put that to bed with a victory at the PGA Championship in May, but he carried that momentum into The Open Championship with another win on Sunday.
Schuffele entered the final round one shot behind leader Billy Horschel, who was four-under. But Schauffele was part of a huge group of players tied for second at three-under.
Six players started Sunday's round at -3, but it was Xander Schauffele who took complete control over the final 18 holes.
After starting his round with five-straight pars, Schauffele caught fire and no one else really did.
He made six birdies over his next 11 holes, taking a three-shot lead.
Xander Schauffele went bogey-free in his round and shot a six-under 65 to cruise to victory at the Open Championship.
Schauffele shot the best round of all the players in the field on Sunday, two better than the next-best score (Ryan Fox, 67).
Perhaps more importantly, Schauffele's victory means a United States sweep in the 2024 major golf tournaments and the seventh-straight major victory by American golfers.
Scottie Scheffler won the Masters in April, Schauffele won the PGA Championship in May and Bryson DeChambeau won the U.S. Open last month.
In 2023, Jon Rahm won the Masters, the last non-American to win a major golf tournament. Brooks Koepka won the 2023 PGA Championship, Wyndham Clark won the 2023 U.S. Open and Brian Harman emerged victorious at the 2023 Open Championship.
Next up for Schauffele is the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. Schauffele will represent the United States, and he is the reigning gold medalist in golf after he captured the individual gold in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics (contested in 2021 due to COVID).
Xander Schauffele won his second major of the 2024 season with an Open Championship victory, the 7th-straight American to win a major tournament.
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Given the current domination of American golfers in majors, especially Schauffele, it would be a disappointment for the country not to hoist gold once again.
Schauffele will be joined by Scheffler, Clark and Collin Morikawa in Paris. The first round begins on August 1, giving those four players 10 days to prepare for the Games.
Obviously, here at OutKick we are all-in in rooting for the United States golf team, along with the rest of the American athletes in Paris.
U-S-A! U-S-A!