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How Xander Schauffele Won The Open in 2024

By: | Edited: Mon 14 Jul 2025

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Xander Schauffele started 2024 carrying the dreaded tag of the best golfer not to have won a major. He ended it with two - the US PGA and The Open. The American held off the challenge of Justin Rose to win the 152nd Open Championship at the end of a captivating week at Royal Troon.

It was a second major title in three months for 30-year-old Schauffele, who became the first player to win The Open and US PGA Championship in the same year since Rory McIlroy in 2014.

The American shot a stunning bogey-free six-under 65 to finish on nine under, two clear of his playing partner Rose, who shot a 67 in a fascinating duel in breezy conditions.

"Hearing your name called with Open champion after it is something I've dreamed of for a very long time," said the Champion Golfer of the Year.

Xander Schauffele

For Rose, whose sole major remains his 2013 US Open success, it was the closest he had come to lifting the Claret Jug, 26 years after he finished joint fourth as a 17-year-old to win the Silver Medal as low amateur.

"The dream's been alive all week and I did an awesome job," said the 43-year-old, who came through a qualifying event in Somerset. "This will be a tough one but a great one. I played in some of the hardest weather all week. I played some of the best golf but it didn't quite add up to the trophy."

Three birdies in his opening seven holes had put Rose briefly in the lead on six under, but Schauffele surged three clear of his fellow Olympic gold medallist with a run of five birdies in nine holes from the sixth. 

He took just 31 shots to compete the back nine, which was routinely referred to all week as the hardest in championship golf.

Overnight leader Billy Horschel, who faded after a fast start, birded the final three holes to join Rose in joint second.

Victory for Schauffele capped a remarkable season in the majors, recording top-10 finishes in all four, with two wins. And his win meant all four men's majors in 2024 were won by American players for the first time since 1982, with Scottie Scheffler winning The Masters and Bryson DeChambeau the US Open.

"I thought [winning the US PGA Championship] would help me and it actually did," said Schauffele. "I had this sense of calm, a calm I didn't have when I played earlier at the PGA. 

"For some reason, I was calm and collected. I was telling my caddie Austin that I felt pretty calm coming down the stretch and he said he was about to puke on the 18th tee! I just told myself to just hit it down there and keep moving along."


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