https://pinhighpress.com/tags/press-conference/ Recent content in Press Conference on Pin High Press Hugo en-us Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://pinhighpress.com/posts/schauffele-confidence-pga-championship-2026/ Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://pinhighpress.com/posts/schauffele-confidence-pga-championship-2026/ <p>The press conference Xander Schauffele gave at Aronimink earlier this week was, by the standards of a press week at a major championship, an unusually candid one. The two-time major winner of 2024, the player who finished the calendar year with a PGA Championship at Valhalla and an Open Championship at Royal Troon and a place at the very top of the betting market for every event he had entered since, was asked whether the level of confidence he was carrying into the week resembled the one he had carried into Valhalla two years before. The answer was direct. The confidence, he said, was significantly lower, obviously. He had finished close to last place at the Truist Championship the week before. He had spent the build-up trying to extract something useful from the wreckage of a tournament in which his game had not produced a single round he had been entirely pleased with. The admission was, in a sport whose players will spend most press weeks reassuring everyone that the game is in better shape than it looks, the most interesting line a player in the eighteen-to-one market had volunteered in some time.</p>