On an excellent day at The Renaissance Membership close to North Berwick, the world No 11 from San Diego collected a $1.4m cheque because of a level-par ultimate spherical of 70 to edge out fellow American Kurt Kitayama by one shot and now heads to St Andrews – he hasn’t performed the Previous Course earlier than – for the one hundred and fiftieth Open Championship as one of many favourites.
Schauffele has been unbeatable in latest weeks, profitable the Vacationers Championship on the PGA Tour simply two weeks in the past earlier than beating a robust discipline on the unofficial J.P. McManus Professional-Am on Tuesday in Eire.
However the 28-year-old American was relieved to recover from the profitable line for the third time in a row, ending end on seven-under-par to file his third victory of the 12 months after a ultimate spherical efficiency in East Lothian he reckoned was properly under par.
“I’m not going to place make-up on the pig right here,” he mentioned. “It was a really common day. In all probability my worst this week. I used to be forward, I used to be behind, I used to be forward, I used to be behind. I simply stored my head down.”
Schauffele described it as “particular” to win in Scotland and thanked the galleries for conserving him on observe as the primary co-sanctioned PGA and DP World Tour occasion went all the way down to the ultimate few holes.
“It is totally different taking part in over right here,” he added. “You have to play golf in a different way. The followers are unbelievable. They pushed me lengthy all day and that is positively a pleasant win for my crew and myself.
“I used to be telling myself that, it would not actually must be fairly. It wasn’t very fairly, sadly, however I received the ball within the gap and one higher than everybody else.
“It was a grind. I used to be not taking part in very properly. I got here out of the gates very properly and form of hit a wall and was wanting a bit sketchy for slightly bit. It was good to form of regular the ship on the best way in.”
