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Xander Schauffele of Team US on the podium after winning gold in the men's individual stroke play at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Picture: CHRIS TROTMAN/GETTY IMAGES

“Man, it feels good,” said Schauffele, who claimed the title with a final-round 67 for an 18-under total of 266. “I kind of wanted this one more than any other. The 27-year-old American stumbled with a bogey on the 14th to fall back to a share of the gold medal position with Sabbatini, who was waiting nervously in the clubhouse.

Schauffele brought his swing-coach father Stefan to the Games, nearly 40 years after the former decathlete’s dreams of representing Germany at the Olympics were crushed when a car crash left him blind in one eye. The strain finally told on Schauffele as he sliced his tee shot into the trees on the right of the par-five 14th, forcing a penalty drop.

 

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