Rising Star: Xander Schsauffele's College Journey and Career

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00:00Let's kind of get into the beginning of this interview, which is, you know, I, I didn't

00:07know really where to kind of begin in this, but college seemed like to me a great place

00:11to start because everyone knows you obviously as the second ranked player in the world,

00:17you know, two time major champion.

00:19And we know that just didn't happen overnight.

00:22And you're the class of 2011 guy went to San Diego state.

00:26But the one thing that I did learn in this is that you did you weren't at San Diego state

00:29all these years.

00:30You started at Long Beach state.

00:32How How has this been?

00:34It has been covered.

00:35I didn't even know this.

00:37Yeah, I went to Long Beach State my freshman year.

00:42I signed up with Ryan Ressa, who works for Tandem right now.

00:46And I, there's all these colleges I could have I could have gone to I mean, I wasn't

00:51really good, but I was I was a pretty good player going into college.

00:56And you know, just like whenever you go through the levels, you know, coaches know if you're

01:00it or not.

01:01So I ended up going to Long Beach State my first year, my dad and I figured it's really

01:05important for me to play tournaments.

01:07And not like a few was like, I think that's when they made it to like quarters at Riviera.

01:13So they were ranked like eighth in the nation.

01:15And it was a huge concern to not get any playing time, because everyone was so good.

01:20And everyone was so much older.

01:22My dad and I, we literally picked the school where he thought I would start every event

01:26just so I can get some experience and I ended up paying off pretty well.

01:29So I go to Long Beach State, Ressa leaves after three months.

01:32I'm heartbroken.

01:33I still give him I still give him crap for it.

01:38Would you would you would you stay there all four years if he didn't leave?

01:42Potentially?

01:43Yeah.

01:44I mean, I, you know, my dad was my swing coach at that time.

01:47And Derek was my I just started working with Derek when I went to SDSU.

01:50So I basically just had my dad and it was an hour and a half drive.

01:53So I felt like it was far enough away, but close enough for me to get the work in that

01:56I needed if I needed to go home.

01:58So he ended up leaving the after three tournaments, I ended up transferring back home.

02:03And then you know, I'm closer to my dad, closer to family, right, closer.

02:07And then I started working with Derek, when I was at SDSU, sort of my junior senior year,

02:11which, which helped me a lot.

02:13And then the rest is history.

02:15So I mean, it was a slow, it was a slow, steady drip.

02:19I didn't really write, like when a lot of college tournaments, you know, had the likes

02:24of I mean, shoot, you know, the 2011 class, it's it's insane.

02:29It's it's easy to get forgotten in that class.

02:31If we just start with like the top three or four names.

02:33So I kind of just kept my head down.

02:36I knew that I was on a slower trajectory, slower path.

02:40And that was always my mentality, sort of in college, like, I'm gonna take every single

02:44year to try and get better.

02:47I went to school my senior year, missed second stage by six shots, went back to school my

02:52senior year, because I was like, I am not ready for this.

02:56My caddy, Austin Kaiser, we played together there.

02:58So I ended up picking him up to loop for me, year out of college.

03:03And then it was, it was go from there.

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