For the first time in 1,391 days, Xander Schauffele won’t be playing the weekend. But he won’t be agonizing about it either.
When his birdie putt slid past the hole on his final hole Friday at Torrey Pines’ North Course, Schauffele had missed the cut by one stroke at the Farmers Insurance Open, ending a streak of 72 consecutive cuts made—the longest active run on the PGA Tour.
Devastating, right? Not exactly.
“It’s going to be nice to have the weekend off,” Schauffele said “Going to go home and relax and regroup.”
Though Schauffele now resides in Jupiter, Fla. with his wife, Maya, and their infant son, Victor, “home” for him remains San Diego, where he was born and raised and where his parents still live, a quick skip from Torrey Pines.
“If I miss the cut in Charlotte or somewhere, I would just be sitting in a hotel room by myself,” Schauffele said. “I have the comfort of my family here to hang out. You know what, all said and done, it’s probably the best place to miss it.”
Comfort aside, it will be an unfamiliar feeling for Schauffele to kick back on the weekend while his peers compete. The last time that happened was April, 2022, when he failed to make the weekend at the Masters.
The Farmers Insurance Open was Schauffele’s first start of the 2026 season. He attributed his struggles in part to equipment tweaks that left him searching, particularly with his driver.
“I don’t like switching stuff and I switched, and then when you switch back, things kind of feel weird,” he said. “You start swinging to fit the club and it kind of affects like everything down the bag. So not a great place to do it.”
“The fact that I was close to the cut is pretty amazing,” he added.
He’d given himself a chance on the North Course after opening with a 73 on the demanding South. But a bogey at the drivable par-4 seventh on Friday proved costly, and pars on two reachable par-5s didn’t help.
“Bogeying a drivable par 4 and parring two par 5s in the middle of the fairway—you deserve to miss the cut,” he said. “So here I am.”
With Schauffele’s run over, the longest current consecutive cuts-made streak on Tour now belongs to Scottie Scheffler with 65, which is itself a far cry from the all-time mark of 142 held by Tiger Woods.
Entering this week at Torrey, Schauffele’s run of cuts made was the fifth longest in Tour history, but he said it wasn’t weighing on his mind and that he wasn’t scoreboard watching.
“There’s no boards on the North Course so I kind of missed my putt and looked at (caddie Austin Kaiser) and I said, Is that it?” Schauffele said. “He said, Yeah, You’re done. And I was like, Okay.”
Shrug. So it goes.
Schauffele now has the weekend to unwind but he won’t have to wait long to start a new streak. He’s in the field at next week’s WM Phoenix Open.
