{"id":23076,"date":"2025-10-12T09:04:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T09:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=23076"},"modified":"2025-10-12T09:04:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T09:04:02","slug":"schauffele-ends-title-drought-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=23076","title":{"rendered":"Schauffele ends title drought in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"
Xander Schauffele won his first title of the year after finishing one stroke clear of Max Greyserman at the PGA Tour’s Baycurrent Classic in Japan on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The American ended a drought stretching back to his win at the British Open last year, which came two months after he claimed his first major at the PGA Championship.<\/p>\n

Schauffele, who won Olympic gold in Tokyo in 2021, finished on 19-under par after a seven-under final round of 64 containing eight birdies and one bogey at Yokohama Country Club.<\/p>\n

He calmly rolled in a short putt to close out the win, then took his cap off to acknowledge the crowd and embraced his caddie.<\/p>\n

“It feels good, it’s nice to know I’ve still got it,” said Schauffele, who struggled with injury earlier in the year.<\/p>\n

“It was a rough year but my team dragged me through it.”<\/p>\n

Schauffele, who was part of the losing US Ryder Cup team two weeks ago, began the final round tied for the lead with Greyserman.<\/p>\n

The pair were quickly joined by Michael Thorbjornsen after the 24-year-old American hit an eagle on the fourth hole.<\/p>\n

Schauffele took the sole lead after the 14th hole and he never looked back, moving two shots ahead with a nerveless birdie on the 17th.<\/p>\n

Greyserman made a last-gasp bid to make up lost ground but his eagle attempt on the final hole pulled up agonisingly short.<\/p>\n

Schauffele said it was “special” to get his 10th PGA Tour win in Japan, where his mother grew up and his grandparents still live.<\/p>\n

“Hopefully I’m catching my stride,” he said.<\/p>\n

“It was a big learning experience with the injury this year.”<\/p>\n

Greyserman was looking for his first PGA Tour title after finishing as runner-up four times, including at last year’s tournament in Japan.<\/p>\n

Thorbjornsen finished third, three strokes behind Schauffele.<\/p>\n

Schauffele’s Ryder Cup team-mate Collin Morikawa finished tied for 14th on 10-under par.<\/p>\n

Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama was in a share of 20th place on eight-under.<\/p>\n

American Matt McCarty shot the round of the day, rattling in an incredible 12 birdies to card a 60.<\/p>\n

McCarty, who birdied eight straight holes on the back nine, bogeyed the 18th to deny him the rare feat of a sub-60 round.<\/p>\n

The Baycurrent Classic is the only US PGA Tour event currently staged in Asia.<\/p>\n

It was previously known as the Zozo Championship and first held in 2019 when Tiger Woods was the inaugural champion. Matsuyama won it in 2021.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Xander Schauffele won his first title of the year after finishing one stroke clear of Max Greyserman at the PGA Tour’s Baycurrent Classic in Japan on Sunday. The American ended a drought stretching back to his win at the British Open last year, which came two months after he claimed his first major at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}