SAN DIEGO — Former San Diego State men’s golf All-American Xander Schauffele claimed the Travelers Championship, which wrapped up Sunday in Cromwell, Connecticut. It was the second victory of the season for Schauffele and sixth career PGA Tour title.
Schauffele carded a 2-under par 68 in Sunday’s round on the par-70, 6,852-yard TPC River Highlands course to finish at 19-under overall. Schauffele began the tournament with back-to-back 63s followed by a 67 in Saturday’s third round. Schauffele birdied the par-4, 444-yard 18th today to win the event by two strokes over J.T. Poston (-17) and Sahith Theegala (-17).
Schauffele’s six PGA Tour victories have come at the 2017 Greenbrier Classic, 2017 Tour Championship, 2018 WGC-HSBC Champions, 2019 Sentry Tournament of Champions, 2022 Zurich Classic of New Orleans and the 2022 Travelers Championship. Schauffele also won the gold medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics last summer.
An Aztec has now won three of the last 13 PGA Tour tournaments with J.J. Spaun taking down the Valero Texas Open (March 31-April 3) and Schauffele’s two victories since.
A two-time PING All-West Region honoree, Schauffele received All-America recognition following a brilliant senior campaign at San Diego State in 2015, garnering third-team accolades from the both the Golf Coaches Association of America (GCAA) and Golfweek.
In his three years on Montezuma Mesa, Schauffele amassed 21 top-10 finishes, 16 top-five performances and two individual titles before graduating with a degree in social science. He also owns the school record with a 71.50 career scoring average in 118 rounds played, as well as the program’s single-season standard of 171 birdies set in 2014-15.
