Xander Schauffele played in the PGA Tour 's season-opening event, The Sentry. He also initially played alongside his New York Golf Club teammates on the TGL (Tomorrow Golf League). But a rib injury that he took for granted made things worse as time progressed. Before the tournament, he detailed his fear of re-injuring the rib.

For the second consecutive week, Xander Schauffele, the No. 3 golfer in the world, was sweating out playing into the weekend as he finished on Friday.

Xander Schauffele is likely to extend his PGA Tour-best streak of cuts made to 59 consecutive tournaments, but the two-time major winner was blunt about the state of his game after the second round of The Players Championship on Friday.

After two months without competition, PGA and British Open champion Xander Schauffele set modest expectations at Bay Hill and achieved one of his goals at the Arnold Palmer Invitational. He gets two more rounds.

Xander Schauffele hasn't found his top form at The PLAYERS Championship, but he still may have done just enough to make the weekend.

Just six rounds into his comeback from a rib injury, Schauffele’s frustration seemed to boil over as he described a game that, right now, is “pretty bad.”

The fact that he's likely to make the cut at the Players Championship is emphatically not making Xander Schauffele feel better about his start to the season. A birdie at the par-5 ninth hole, his last of the day,