Xander Schauffele Age 2026: How Old Is Schauffele?

Last updated: 6 November 2026 | By Nathan Cole

Xander Schauffele is 33 years old. He was born on 25 October 1993 in San Diego, California, and turned 33 on 25 October 2026 — which is why so many pages on the internet still get it wrong. If the page you just read says 32, it was written before his birthday. The PGA Tour’s own profile lists him at 33, and DataGolf has him at 33 years and one month as of November 2026. This article settles the number, then tells the story behind it: the decathlete father who coached him, the Olympic gold at 27, the two majors at 30, the rib injury at 31, the baby at 31, and the season at 33 when he started calling himself the old guy on tour.

At 33, Schauffele owns one of the most complete résumés in golf: 10 PGA Tour wins, two major championships won in a single summer, an Olympic gold medal, and $70.4 million in official PGA Tour prize money — the 11th-highest total in the history of the tour. His net worth is estimated at $60 million, built on that prize money, $29.2 million in FedEx Cup bonuses, and endorsement earnings of more than $20 million a year. He is ranked No. 7 in the world, has made 196 of 221 cuts as a professional, and has never missed a Ryder Cup team he was eligible for since his debut. The age is the headline. The career is the reason anyone cares about the headline.

Every figure in this article is attributed to the outlet that reported it, and where sources disagree — most of all on the net worth — this article says so. Nothing here is invented, and nothing is copied from a competitor’s telling of the same life.

How Old Is Xander Schauffele in 2026?

Xander Schauffele is 33 years old in November 2026. He was born on 25 October 1993, which makes the arithmetic simple: he turned 32 on 25 October 2025, and 33 on 25 October 2026. The PGA Tour’s official player profile lists his age as 33. DataGolf, which updates its profiles continuously, has him at 33 years and one month. The PGA Championship’s official bio agrees: age 33, turned pro 2015, hometown San Diego.

The confusion is easy to explain. A wave of age pages published in the first half of 2026 — bet365’s profile was updated on 27 May 2026 — correctly said 32 at the time, and those pages still rank on Google. They are not wrong about the birthday; they are stale about the year. Schauffele’s own words at the Valspar Championship in March 2026 show he felt the milestone coming: asked about his 209th PGA Tour start, he said, “It’s my 209th start, so I’m starting to feel like an old guy out here, to be honest.” He was 32 then, in his tenth full season on tour, and the joke landed because it was half true. At 33, with a one-year-old son at home and a decade of tour life behind him, the “old guy” line is less of a joke.

The age matters in golf in a way it does not in most sports. Golfers peak late and last long: the average age of a major winner in the modern era sits in the early thirties, and the game’s greatest players have won majors into their forties. At 33, Schauffele is not old. He is, by the sport’s own calendar, right in the middle of the window where the biggest wins happen — and he has already used two years of that window to win both of his majors.

Early Life: A Decathlete Father, a San Diego Childhood

Schauffele was born and raised in San Diego, California, into a family where elite sport was the family business. His father, Stefan Schauffele, was born in Stuttgart to a French-Austrian mother and a German father, and trained as a professional decathlete — until a drunk driver struck him head-on, costing him an eye and ending his Olympic ambitions. Stefan retrained as a golf coach, graduating from the San Diego Golf Academy, and became his son’s only swing coach from the very beginning. His mother, Chen Ping-Yi, was born in Taiwan and grew up in Japan before moving to the United States. His parents met in 1988 at San Diego’s United States International University and married three months later. They moved to Germany, where Xander’s elder brother Nico was born, before returning to San Diego. The PGA Championship’s official bio puts it plainly: although born in La Jolla, California, he belongs to four nationalities.

He picked up golf at nine or ten, under his father’s coaching, and the method was pure Stefan: no mirrors, just ball-flight basics, learned by watching where the ball went. He starred at Scripps Ranch High School, winning the California State High School Championship in 2011, and grew up splitting his early athletic interests between soccer and golf before golf won. The father-son coaching relationship lasted into his professional career — Stefan remained his only swing coach until Schauffele began working with Chris Como for the 2024 season, the year everything changed. Derek Uyeda has handled the putting since 2021.

San Diego stayed home base through the junior years, and it shaped the golfer he became. Southern California gave him year-round golf, Torrey Pines gave him a home major venue — he proposed to his future wife on Torrey Pines beach — and the multicultural household gave him a comfort with travel that shows up in his record: he has won in Japan, contended everywhere, and visits the country where his maternal grandparents live, where he has spent time since he was about ten years old.

College: Long Beach State, San Diego State and the Amateur Years

Schauffele began his college career at California State University, Long Beach, where he earned Big West Conference Freshman of the Year honours in 2012. Before his sophomore year he transferred to San Diego State University, where he played out his college career for the Aztecs, set scoring records — a 71.50 average is the number his college bio carries — and graduated in 2015. He won the California State Amateur in 2014 and ranked inside the world’s top ten amateurs before turning professional in June 2015, after Web.com Q-School.

The transfer matters more than it looks. San Diego State is where he met Austin Kaiser, the teammate who became his caddie and closest friend on tour, and where he met Maya Lowe, the UC San Diego student who became his wife. The college years were also where the game took its modern shape: a player with no obvious weakness, a putter who could get hot for a week, and a temperament that did not leak strokes after bad holes. He turned pro at 21 with no fanfare and no sponsor exemptions to speak of — and then, in his second full season, he won twice and was named Rookie of the Year.

Turning Pro: The 2015 Grind and the 2017 Breakthrough

Schauffele turned professional in June 2015 at 21, and the first two years were the grind every tour player knows: Monday qualifiers, Web.com Tour events, and the slow accumulation of status. The breakthrough came fast once it came. In 2017, his first full season on the PGA Tour, he won the Greenbrier Classic in July and the Tour Championship in September — the season-ending event, won as a rookie — and was named PGA Tour Rookie of the Year. He finished the season with $4.3 million in official earnings, and the tour had a new fixture.

The wins kept coming on a steady rhythm rather than in bursts: the WGC-HSBC Champions in China in 2018, the Sentry Tournament of Champions in Hawaii in 2019, and then three wins in 2022 — the Zurich Classic with Patrick Cantlay, the Travelers Championship, and the Genesis Scottish Open. By the end of 2022 he had seven PGA Tour wins, a reputation as the most consistent player in the world without a major, and a problem: the “best player never to win a major” label, which follows every great golfer who reaches his late twenties without one. He was 29. The label lasted eighteen months.

Olympic Gold: Tokyo 2020 and the First American Since 1900

The first great win of Schauffele’s career was not a major. It was the Olympic gold medal at the Tokyo 2020 Games, played in August 2021 after the pandemic delay. He shot a final-round 67 on 1 August to beat Slovakia’s Rory Sabbatini by one shot, making an up-and-down for par on the last hole with the gold on the line. With the win he became the first American since 1900 to win an Olympic gold medal in golf — a 121-year gap, and a line that has followed him ever since.

The gold matters to this biography for two reasons. The first is the age: he was 27, in his physical prime, and the win proved he could close a tournament with the whole world watching and no cut to hide behind. The second is the money: Olympic golf pays no prize money, so the gold added nothing to the $70.4 million career earnings total — and added enormously to the endorsement value. Sponsors pay for the moments people remember, and a gold medal on the podium in Tokyo is a moment people remember. He competed again at the Paris 2024 Olympics, the summer he won his two majors, as the defending champion.

The 2024 Majors: Valhalla and Troon in One Summer

Schauffele was 30 years old when the majors finally came, and they came together. In May 2024 he won the PGA Championship at Valhalla in Louisville, Kentucky, finishing at 21-under par with a 72-hole total of 258 — the lowest score in major championship history — and beating Bryson DeChambeau by a single shot. Two months later he won The Open Championship at Royal Troon in Scotland, finishing at 9-under and beating Justin Rose and Billy Horschel by two. Two majors in one summer, at 30, after nine years as a professional without one.

The Valhalla win is the one the record books will keep. A 258 total over four rounds had never been shot in a major before, and it came against a leaderboard that included DeChambeau, who birdied the last to post 20-under and force Schauffele to birdie the 72nd hole to win by one. He did. The Troon win was different: a links test in wind and rain, won with patience rather than firepower, and the final round of 65 that closed it. Together the two wins earned him the largest single-season payday of his career — SalarySport’s year-by-year tally puts his 2024 total at $33.7 million including bonuses, the best season of his life — and pushed his career earnings past $60 million. The “best player without a major” label was gone by August.

Schauffele’s Game: The Most Complete Player Without a Weakness

Ask tour players what makes Schauffele hard to beat and the answer is usually the same: there is nothing to attack. He is not the longest driver on tour, not the best putter, and not the most creative shot-maker — but he is among the best at all of them at once, and that combination is rarer than any single skill. The strokes-gained numbers tell the story year after year: he gains strokes off the tee, on approach, around the green and on the greens, in nearly every season he has played. At the Valspar Championship in March 2026, Sports Illustrated noted he was 12th on tour in strokes-gained total — in a season with no wins, in a comeback year, at 32.

The putting is the part of the game he rebuilt. Derek Uyeda has coached his putting since 2021, and the work shows up in the majors: at Valhalla he holed the putts that mattered, including the birdie on the 72nd hole that won the championship by one, and at Troon his final-round 65 was built on a putter that did not miss when the wind made every other part of the game harder. His father Stefan, the decathlete-turned-coach, built the swing; Uyeda built the stroke that finishes the job. The driver is the underrated weapon: not the longest, but one of the most accurate among the game’s elite, which is why he makes 196 of 221 cuts — he is almost never out of a tournament after two rounds.

The reputation that follows him — “boring excellence”, as one profile put it — is the other side of the same coin. Schauffele does not hit the shots that make highlight reels; he hits the shots that make leaderboards. He has finished in the top ten at every major, contended at all four, and won two of them in one summer. The game has no signature moment because the game is the signature: complete, repeatable, and very hard to beat over 72 holes. At 33, with a body that has already cost him one season to injury, that completeness is also his insurance — he does not rely on a single skill that age can take away.

2025 and 2026: The Rib Injury, the Comeback and the ‘Old Guy’ Season

The season after the two majors did not go to plan. A rib injury disrupted Schauffele’s 2025, and the numbers show it: about $3.3 million in official earnings for the year, against $33.7 million the season before, and no wins. He played through the injury in the early part of the year, missed time, and returned to a tour that had moved on without him. The low point of the year, if it can be called that, was also the high point of his life: his son Viktor was born on 29 August 2025, and he stayed home for a fall event to be with his family in Florida.

The comeback season, 2026, has been steady rather than spectacular — and by Schauffele’s standards, steady is a compliment. He has won nothing in 2026, but he has eight top-10 finishes and fourteen top-25s in 21 starts, and he finished third at The Players Championship in March, earning $1.7 million for the week. The Valspar Championship the same month was his 209th PGA Tour start, the occasion for the “old guy” line that has defined how the tour now talks about him: a 32-year-old, in his tenth full season, who has been a top-ten player for the better part of five years. In October he returned to Japan to defend his Baycurrent Classic title, the event he won in 2025, entering the week ranked No. 10 in the world. By November he was back at No. 7. The 2026 season, in short, is a player rebuilding toward the form of 2024 — older, a father now, and still inside the world’s top ten.

Money: Million Net Worth and .4 Million in Career Earnings

Schauffele’s net worth in 2026 is estimated at $60 million, the figure EssentiallySports, SurpriseSports and the World Today Journal all carry, inside a published range of $50–60 million set by bet365’s May 2026 profile. A $40 million figure printed by one outlet in November 2026 sits at the low end. The anchor is the most consistent number in circulation, and it is the one this article uses.

The hard number underneath it is the prize money. The PGA Tour’s official profile records his career earnings at $70,426,084, the 11th-highest total in the history of the tour, built across 221 starts with 196 cuts made. On top of the official money sit the FedEx Cup bonuses: $29.2 million across his career, including a $5 million bonus in the 2018–19 season, earned through repeated deep runs in the playoffs without ever winning the Cup itself. SalarySport’s all-in tally — official money plus bonuses plus major-championship earnings — puts his total career haul at $117.2 million, with 2024 alone worth $33.7 million. The gap between $70.4 million in official prize money and a $60 million net worth is the honest part of the story: tax, agent and team fees, and a decade of life at the top of a very expensive sport sit between gross earnings and wealth.

The yearly earnings tell the story of the career in miniature. The 2017 rookie season paid $4.3 million. The 2019 season paid $10.7 million. The 2024 season paid $33.7 million. The 2025 injury season paid $3.3 million in official money. And 2026, the comeback year, has paid about $4.9 million in official money through the fall, with $1.7 million of it from a single third-place finish at The Players. Golf pays for peaks, and Schauffele’s peaks have been very high.

Endorsements: Callaway, Adidas and Million a Year Off Course

Schauffele’s endorsement portfolio is the quiet half of his fortune, and it is worth more per year than his golf. EssentiallySports puts his off-course earnings at more than $20 million a year in recent seasons — a figure that held up even in the injury-hit 2025 season, when the golf paid $3.3 million and the sponsors paid several times that. The list runs through Callaway for clubs, Adidas for apparel, and Aon, Hyland, Descente, Avis, Blue Owl Capital and Rolex for the rest. Forbes’ 2023 ranking of the top-earning golfers put his total earnings for the year at $33 million, 18th on the list, blending tour wins with off-course cash.

The structure of the deals fits the player. Callaway and Adidas are long partnerships, not one-year endorsements, and they pay for the same thing the majors pay for: a golfer who is always on the leaderboard on Sunday, always in the top ten of the world ranking, and never in the news for the wrong reasons. The Olympic gold helped: a gold medallist sells differently from a golfer, and Schauffele’s sponsors have used the Tokyo medal in their marketing ever since. He also plays in the TGL, the indoor team league founded by Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy, which keeps him on television through the winter and in front of a younger audience than the tour reaches on its own.

Personal Life: Maya, Baby Viktor and Life in Jupiter

Schauffele met his wife, Maya Lowe, in 2014 while both were students in San Diego — he at San Diego State, she at UC San Diego. They dated for six years before he proposed on New Year’s Eve 2020 at Torrey Pines Beach, and married in July 2021 in a small private ceremony in Las Vegas attended by eight family members, their officiant, and their two dogs, Chewie and Momo. Maya holds a degree in science and public health from UC San Diego and a master’s in healthcare administration from the University of Maryland, and has worked for Planned Parenthood. She caddied for him in the 2024 Masters Par 3 contest, the traditional family day at Augusta.

In August 2025 they welcomed their first child, a son named Viktor Schauffele — Viktor for Xander’s middle name, Victor. He was born on 29 August 2025, and his father stayed home from a fall event to be with him. The family lives in Jupiter, Florida, the town where half the PGA Tour lives, and the arrival of the baby is the context for everything about Schauffele at 33: the “old guy” joke, the steadier schedule, and the sense, visible in every interview this year, that the golf is now the second most important thing in his life. His caddie, Austin Kaiser, has been with him since their San Diego State days — the teammate who became the man on the bag for two majors and an Olympic gold.

Schauffele at 33: How His Age Compares to Golf’s Elite

At 33, Schauffele sits in the middle of golf’s generational map. Scottie Scheffler, the world No. 1, is 29. Jon Rahm is 32. Collin Morikawa is 29. Rory McIlroy, the elder statesman of the group, is 37. And Bryson DeChambeau, the man Schauffele beat by one shot at Valhalla, was born on 16 September 1993 — six weeks older than Schauffele, and the closest peer he has in age, ranking and career arc.

The comparison that matters is the one with his own generation’s timeline. Tiger Woods had won 14 majors by 33; Schauffele has two. McIlroy had four by 33; Schauffele has two. But the modern game does not hand out majors the way the old one did — the fields are deeper, the money is spread wider, and two majors plus an Olympic gold plus $70.4 million in prize money is a career most golfers would trade their own for. The question at 33 is not whether he belongs in the conversation. It is whether the third major comes before 35, when the window starts to narrow, or after it.

What’s Next: The Third Major and the 2027 Season

The immediate future is the 2027 season, and the target is obvious: a third major. Schauffele has never won the Masters — his best finish at Augusta is second, in 2019, when he lost to Tiger Woods by one — and the Masters in April is the first major of the year and the one that would complete the set of American golf’s biggest prizes. The U.S. Open in June and the PGA Championship in May are the others, and the Open Championship in July, where he defends nothing but owns the memory of Troon, rounds out the calendar.

The longer question is the body. The rib injury that cost him most of 2025 is the kind of injury that returns if it is rushed, and his 2026 season — eight top-10s, no wins, a third at The Players — reads like a player managing his way back rather than chasing every event. He is 33, a father, a two-time major champion and an Olympic gold medallist, with $60 million and a sponsor portfolio that pays $20 million a year whether he wins or not. What he does not have is a third major, and the next two seasons will decide whether the career is remembered as a very good one or a great one. The window is open. He knows how wide it is, because he has already walked through it twice.

Frequently Asked Questions About Xander Schauffele’s Age

Sources & Reporting

This profile was reported from the following sources, all checked in November 2026: the PGA Tour’s official player profile for the age (33), the 10 wins, the $70,426,084 career earnings, the 196/221 cuts made, the 2026 season record (0 wins, 8 top-10s) and the No. 7 world ranking; the PGA Championship’s official bio for the two majors, the four nationalities and the San Diego State background; DataGolf for the 33 years and one month age; Sports Illustrated and Deadspin (March 2026) for the 209th start, the “old guy” quote and the tenth season; EssentiallySports (11 April 2026) and SurpriseSports for the $60 million net worth anchor, the $65 million-plus prize-money figure, the $29.2 million FedEx Cup bonuses and the $20 million-plus annual endorsements; bet365 (27 May 2026) for the $50–60 million range, the $64,889,789 prize-money figure and the birthday; Wikipedia for the 25 October 1993 birth date, the family history, the college transfer and the marriage; XanderClub’s official about page for the Olympic gold, the 2025 birth of son Viktor and the Chris Como coaching change; and SalarySport for the $117.2 million all-in career tally and the $33.7 million 2024 season. Net worth figures are estimates: Schauffele has never disclosed his finances. Where sources disagree, this article publishes the range and names the outlet behind each figure. Corrections: figures are updated when new reporting emerges — contact us via the About page if you spot an error.