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Xander Schauffele whitethorn oregon whitethorn not permission the CJ Cup this week with the winner’s trophy, but helium volition beryllium going location with immoderate hardware.
Schauffele was presented with the Key to the City by Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman anterior to the commencement of the tournament. The grant came successful designation of Schauffele’s golden medal show this summertime successful the Tokyo Olympics.
“Apparently it gives maine each the powerfulness successful Vegas, truthful I’m beauteous excited astir it,” Schauffele joked, showing disconnected his cardinal to the gathered play media. “The politician was telling maine each the perks of it, truthful feeling beauteous almighty arsenic of close now. It’s been cool.”
He joins shot stars Bryce Harper and Kris Bryant, Property Brothers Jonathan and Drew Scott, and Panic! astatine the Disco pb vocalist Brendon Urie arsenic recipients successful caller years.
Schauffele said helium chose to determination to Las Vegas aft getting joined earlier this year. His in-laws unrecorded successful Las Vegas.
“It’s a spot I visited a batch anterior to surviving here, and I consciousness rapidly adopted by the authorities of Nevada and blessed to telephone myself a Nevadan,” helium said.
Schauffele tees disconnected successful the archetypal circular Thursday astatine 12:06 p.m., playing with Dustin Johnson and Viktor Hovland.
Slipping ranking
Rory McIlroy has been successful the apical 10 successful the satellite rankings astir each week since helium archetypal reached the plateau successful 2009. But 2021 saw that tally travel to an extremity erstwhile helium fell retired successful July and hasn’t made it back.
McIlroy, who has spent 106 weeks astatine No. 1 implicit the years, presently stands 14th.
“I deliberation erstwhile I play my best, I’m the champion subordinate successful the world,” helium said Wednesday. “I haven’t played similar that for a while, though.”
His autumn has coincided with the pandemic — helium was No. 1 astatine the clip play unopen down — and with becoming a begetter for the archetypal time. It has besides happened with progressively beardown competition.
“There’s a ton of large players present that play evidently really, truly bully golf,” helium said. “I consciousness similar the endowment excavation is conscionable getting deeper and deeper each year, truthful you person to strive to support trying to get amended to enactment wherever you privation to stay.”
Adjusting goals
Sungjae Im arrives astatine the CJ Cup having won past week astatine the Shriners Children’s Open, the 2nd triumph of his PGA Tour vocation successful his 100th start.
Thanks to Shriners, Im said helium needs to reassess his goals for the caller season.
“My extremity successful the opening of the play was to triumph this year, and to bash that successful my 2nd start, evidently I achieved that extremity already,” helium said. “So I’m beauteous happy.”
Greg Robertson covers play for the Review-Journal. He tin beryllium reached astatine grobertson@reviewjournal.com.
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