{"id":50726,"date":"2025-10-13T16:33:39","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T20:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/schauffele-conquers-japan-special-victory-with-family-roots-3\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T16:33:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T20:33:39","slug":"schauffele-conquers-japan-special-victory-with-family-roots-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/golf\/schauffele-conquers-japan-special-victory-with-family-roots-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Schauffele conquers Japan: Special victory with family roots"},"content":{"rendered":"YOKOHAMA, Japan \u2013 Xander Schauffele&#8217;s victory at the Baycurrent Classic might not be the most prestigious of his career, but it will certainly be one of the most memorable.\n\nSchauffele shot a 64 (-7) on Sunday, securing the win in Japan, a country with deep personal connections for the American golfer.\n\nWith a total of 265 strokes (-19) in four rounds at the Yokohama Country Club, Schauffele beat Max Greyserman by one stroke, who was also runner-up in this event the previous year.\n\nSchauffele&#8217;s connection to Japan is familial: his maternal grandparents reside there, his mother grew up in Japan, and his mother-in-law is Japanese. In addition, his wife is half-Japanese and was raised on the island of Okinawa.\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a1.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F1012%2Fr1559044_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Xander Schauffele&#039;s mother was born in Taiwan but grew up in Japan.\" title=\"\"><figcaption>La madre de Xander Schauffele naci\u00f3 en Taiw\u00e1n pero creci\u00f3 en Jap\u00f3n.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I&#8217;ve been coming here since I was about 9 years old to visit my grandparents. I fell in love with this country a long time ago. I&#8217;m looking forward to bringing my son here when he&#8217;s old enough to understand and appreciate Japanese culture.<\/p><cite>Xander Schauffele<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nRecently become a father, Schauffele expressed his excitement about returning home to his son and his wife, Maya, after the tournament.\n\nSchauffele&#8217;s family was present to support him during the tournament, including his 81-year-old grandmother, who accompanied him on the course. The golfer anticipated a celebration with his family to commemorate the victory.\n\nGreyserman finished with a round of 65 strokes, while Michael Thorbjornsen completed the tournament with 64 strokes, finishing three strokes behind the winner.\n\nSchauffele, with two major championships to his name, including the 2024 Open Championship and gold at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, adds this triumph to his impressive list of achievements.\n\nThe favorable conditions on the course led to low scores. Matt McCarty signed a card of 60 strokes (-11), although he finished nine strokes behind the leader. Takumi Kanaya, for his part, finished with 62 strokes (-9), five behind the winner.\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F1012%2Fr1559043_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Xander Schauffele poses with his family members after winning the Baycurrent Classic. His maternal grandparents live in Japan, his mother-in-law is Japanese, and his wife is half Japanese and grew up in Japan&#039;s southern island of Okinawa.\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Xander Schauffele posa con su familia tras ganar el Baycurrent Classic. Sus abuelos maternos viven en Jap\u00f3n, su suegra es japonesa y su esposa es mitad japonesa y creci\u00f3 en la isla de Okinawa.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\nMccarty had the opportunity to achieve a 58, but a stroke on the last hole left him at 60. Jim Furyk holds the PGA Tour record with a 58 at the 2016 Travelers Championship.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YOKOHAMA, Japan \u2013 Xander Schauffele&#8217;s victory at the Baycurrent Classic might not be the most prestigious of his career, but it will certainly be one of the most memorable. Schauffele shot a 64 (-7) on Sunday, securing the win in Japan, a country with deep personal connections for the American golfer. With a total of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[9636,163,642,2410],"class_list":{"0":"post-50726","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-golf","7":"tag-baycurrent-classic","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-japan","10":"tag-xander-schauffele"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}