Xander Schauffele’s injury came at the end of year in which he played golf better than anyone in the world not named Scottie Scheffler.
ORLANDO, Fla. — Xander Schauffele took his first swing on a PGA Tour course in 57 days and found the middle of the fairway. And then he took another golf ball from his bag and tossed it into the thick rough. That was the real test.
Schauffele gave it a rip and didn't feel any twinge in his right ribs from an intercostal strain and slight tear in his cartilage that has kept him out of golf for two months. He returns to the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill this week with modest expectations.
Two-time major winner, Xander Schauffele is back ... t go well then I'm going to get in my car and drive back to Jupiter,” Schauffele joked. “I feel like I've been pretty conservative with ...