Xander Schauffele , one of professional golf’s steadiest talents, recently peeled back the layers of what really goes on inside a golfer’s head. On the Fore Play Schauffele dropped a revealing confession: his inner voice telling him “it doesn’t really matter” : a mantra born of desperation, exhaustion, and the overwhelming weight of trying to compete while losing control of his emotions. The result is a candid disclosure of where golf ends and the human behind the swing begins.

Schauffele starts the story with his youth, describing himself as “an angry kid.” As he put it: “When I compete, I was kind of like an angry kid … whenever I would get angry, I would completely lose my head.” In his telling, his father, Stefan Schauffele , also his longtime swim coach, played a big r

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