If I had told you say, three days ago,
that you would have a chance to win this championship on Sunday,
what would you have said?
Yeah, I mean, I would have taken that immediately.
Um, you know,
I was almost considering pulling out of this event and how do
you feel about where you stand in the tournament right now?
I've got a good chance, you know, I'm not executing to the level that I know I can, but
playing well enough to
give myself a chance. Obviously, winning, winning a tournament is as a result. So
all I can focus on are, are good golf shots and, and striking good putts. And so,
uh, at the end of the day, you know, wherever the cards fall they fall. But,
uh,
yeah, it,
it would mean a lot, obviously,
Dylan, who
on that leader board is the, the biggest surprise right now.
It's probably Bob mcintyre,
but I'd rather talk about Victor Holland who said that
he thought about withdrawing before the tournament until last week.
He thought, you know, maybe he had a 68 week swing rebuild.
Instead, these two shots back.
Nick P
who's got the most in the line who's got the most pressure on them tomorrow,
most pressure is and,
um,
he's playing hot.
You don't get these opportunities a lot. You gotta capitalize. Um, if he doesn't,
who knows when it comes again?
I think that's tomorrow's a statement or it might not be there again.
James my question for you.
What is Jim
Banks's car going to be?
Jimmy's gonna look straight into the camera
and he's gonna say
Bryson Des Shabo
is a Louisville slugger
bang
tournament. Over.
Final question.
Most important question, Sean, who's winning this golf tournament?
Bryce will make it interesting.
But, uh, the guy who wins is the guy
who's leading after the first round
in the second round
and the third round,
it's gonna be Xander.
Xander.
No, no.
Yes.
We just arrived in the media center pretty fun scene as we
walked in,
Eric Van Roy's
golf ball was like on the, in the parking lot next to the stairs next to a crusty
old trampled sandwich from yesterday.
While you're here.
We have good
coffee.
We had something stronger than coffee, bro.
He compared it to Jordan Spieth getting relief. Um,
at the open, I think that was a little tongue in cheek.
Feels
like they
to
the
same situation.
Uh,
and, uh,
Sean Zach basically declared it free relief. So
now he's back and
t 58 and charging
hard boy,
but that wasn't very
the
time
we got over here.
I was wondering. Ok,
thank you.
Just saw Rory come through. We did not hear from him complex week for Rory to
filing for divorce on Monday, obviously coming off a victory,
finding his game stalling out.
But another week by, without a major championship, so
not the one he wanted.
We've got an official rap on Scotty
Scheffler s golfing week.
I mean, just probably the strangest week of his golfing career.
Definitely, the strangest week came in as the overwhelming favorite
left facing
felony charges.
Still at the moment, you know,
I put my head down on the scorer's table and I think I fell asleep.
So I'm kind of just wondering what time bedtime is. You know, I'm
trying to figure out how quickly I can get home from here. And,
um,
yeah, that's pretty much it. I think I'm just fairly tired and, um, ready to get home.
Can I get
a
call?
It's Jordan speak.
Ok.
There's famous golfers everywhere around here.
What a day?
What a day for,
man. It was just a result. I did not think that any given point was like, guaranteed.
I felt the entire way like Sanders
that was gonna win.
I felt early in the week I felt last night, but Manny Bogey 10, which is a birdie hole
and that was where it felt like hang on a minute. This is not going according to plan.
And then he birdied 11,
he birdied 12. He played, you know, really good golf. The rest of the way.
There are a couple of squirrely moments but he made it happen.
I was pretty nervous.
I was, uh I walked up, I saw a little left to right. I kept reading it.
It kept kind of panning.
It started to look right to left to me.
And I was like, oh my gosh, this is not what I want, but for a winning putt,
I was, I just kept telling myself I was like, man,
this is someone out there is making me earn this right now.
Uh I just kept grinding, you know, I get up there and just kind of chuckled.
I was like, this is just,
you know, if you wanna be a major champion,
this is the kind of stuff you have to deal with.
Like not on the first hole was and gonna win, not on the seventh hole. Was he gonna win
out on the 10th hole when he made Bogey, was he going to win?
And not even on the 18th hole was a guaranteed, he was going to win.
But, uh
he played like a player who deserves a major this
entire week led from start to finish 2024 PGA champion Xanders
is with us now, Xander. First of all, congratulations.
How does it feel to hoist, hoist your first
Waker trophy?
Uh It feels amazing.
Um
Yeah, just
a
wide, wide range of emotions for me. Uh
uh
very Satis very satisfying win.
Such a satisfying winner.
I mean,
no one has done more in majors
without getting one. That's what being the best player without one means.
So,
you know,
there's a lot of chaos this week, I
think in the end
we got the right guy. That's all you can ask for.
Xander. Dad's been such a part of this journey. Is it
a little bit odd to not have him here in the biggest win?
I was actually able to call him when I was standing to,
to waiting to walk onto the 18th green and,
uh, he was a mess. He was crying on the phone. Um, and it, it made me pretty emotional.
My dad's at that stage in his life, I really wanted to be happy and,
um,
I know this is going to bring him a ton of joy
that
hey, dude,
shot to
inter par in a major championship,
uh, proud of myself for the way I handled adversity.
Um
Definitely disappointing, but
one that gives me a lot of momentum for the rest of the majors. And
I said today it was closing time, but it will be closing time. Hopefully,
hopefully over the next couple of majors
time for us to do some writing.
Thanks for watching all week and, uh,
we'll see you at Pinehurst.