For the first time in 1,391 days, Xander Schauffele will not play this weekend. But he won’t worry about it either.
When his birdie putt slid past the hole on his final hole on the North Course at Torrey Pines on Friday, Schauffele had missed the cut by one stroke at the Farmers Insurance Open, ending a streak of 72 consecutive cuts – the longest active run on the PGA Tour.
Devastating, right? Not exactly.
“It will be nice to have the weekend off,” Schauffele said. “I’m going home to relax and regroup.”
Although Schauffele now lives in Jupiter, Florida with his wife Maya and their son Victor, “home” for him remains San Diego, where he was born and raised and where his parents still live, just a short distance from Torrey Pines.
“If I missed the taping in Charlotte or somewhere else, I would be alone in a hotel room,” Schauffele said. “I have the comfort of my family here to hang out. You know what, all said and done, it’s probably the best place to miss it.”
Comfort aside, it will be an unfamiliar feeling for Schauffele to sit back while his colleagues compete this weekend. The last time that happened was April 2022, when he didn’t make it to the Masters weekend.
The Farmers Insurance Open was Schauffele’s first start of the 2026 season. He attributed his struggles in part to equipment adjustments that left him searching, especially with his driver.
“I don’t like to change things and I switched, and then when you switch back things feel a little weird,” he said. “You start swinging to fit the club and it affects everything that’s in the bag. So not a great place to do it.”
“The fact that I was close to the cut is pretty amazing,” he added.
He had given himself a chance on the North Course after starting with a 73 on the demanding South. But a bogey on the drivable par-4 seventh on Friday proved costly, and pars on two reachable par-5s didn’t help.
“If you bogey a drivable par 4 and parry two par 5s in the middle of the fairway, you deserve to miss the cut,” he said. “So here I am.”
With Schauffele’s run over, the longest current consecutive cut streak on Tour now belongs to Scottie Scheffler with 65, which itself is a far cry from Tiger Woods’ all-time record of 142.
Going into Torrey this week, Schauffele’s series of cuts was the fifth longest in Tour history, but he said it didn’t concern him and he wasn’t looking at the scoreboard.
“There are no boards on the North Course, so I missed my putt a little bit and I looked at (caddy Austin Kaiser) and I said, is that it?” said Schauffele. “He said, yeah, you’re done. And I was like, okay.”
Shrug. That’s how it goes.
Schauffele now has a weekend to relax, but he doesn’t have to wait long to start a new series. He will be in the field next week at the WM Phoenix Open.
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