ATLANTA (AP) — Xander Schauffele isn't at East Lake for the first time in his career, the result of a rib injury that cost him two months at the start of the season. He never quite found any momentum in his game with his swing out of sync.

“It would be nice to have three months off. That would be ideal if we were being honest,” Schauffele said at the BMW Championship . “I feel like I need to get as far away from golf as possible very soon. That's how I feel.”

That's not the reality, however. Schauffele had such a big year in the majors last year — winning the PGA Championship and the British Open, top-10 finishes in the other two — that he was among the first to clinch a spot on the Ryder Cup team .

Three months? The Ryder Cup starts in 38 days.

Schauffele was among the players who

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