LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Xander Schauffele is one of only two living men to own an Olympic gold medal in golf. But until Sunday, Schauffele hadn’t been able to claim any of golf’s biggest prizes.
He has now. Schauffele used a final-round 65 to outlast Bryson DeChambeau and Viktor Hovland at the PGA Championship at Valhalla. Schauffele led or co-led every round in a chaotic, controversial major, and at last has a major to call his own.
Both DeChambeau and Hovland walked to the par-5 18th one back of Schauffele. Neither found the fairway on their drives — DeChambeau in a fairway bunker, Hovland in the left rough.