{"id":1581996,"date":"2024-05-23T11:39:28","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T15:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/?p=1581996"},"modified":"2024-05-23T11:51:46","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T15:51:46","slug":"xander-schauffele-instagram-followers-pga-championship-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/xander-schauffele-instagram-followers-pga-championship-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Xander Schauffele Gains Over 33,000 Followers After PGA Championship Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sports7.com<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> has analyzed Instagram data to see Xander Schauffele\u2019s social media growth since winning the 2024 PGA Championship.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Key Highlights:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Schauffele has increased his Instagram following by 9.0% since winning his first major<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Schauffele has added 33,972 Instagram followers since his PGA Championship victory<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He has added 40,201 Instagram followers in May, his highest in a single month in the past five years<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Note: All figures as of May 23, 2024.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After years of top-10 finishes, Xander Schauffele finally broke through and won his first major championship.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Schauffele won the 2024 PGA Championship at Valhalla Golf Club by posting a 6-under 65 in the final round to finish the tournament at 21-under, one stroke better than LIV Golf\u2019s Bryson DeChambeau\u2019s 20-under.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After DeChambeau made a birdie on the par-5 18th to get to 20-under, Schauffele needed a birdie of his own on the final hole to win. After falling about 35 yards short of the green on his third shot, Schauffele chipped the ball to 6 feet.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Schauffele nailed the birdie, claiming the first major of his career.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Schauffele\u2019s win marks the lowest 72-hole score to par (21-under) in major championship history.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Xander Schauffele Has Gained Over 33,000 Followers Since Winning The 2024 PGA Championship<\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"su-table su-table-responsive su-table-alternate\">\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: center;vertical-align: middle\"><b>Date<\/b><\/th>\n<th style=\"text-align: center;vertical-align: middle\"><b>Instagram Followers<\/b><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;vertical-align: middle\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">May 19, 2024<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;vertical-align: middle\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">345,446<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;vertical-align: middle\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">May 23, 2024<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;vertical-align: middle\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">379,418<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;vertical-align: middle\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Net Change<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;vertical-align: middle\">+33,972<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Schauffele has gained 40,201 followers since May 1, 2024. This figure represents Schauffele's most followers gained in one month over the last five years, including after his gold medal victory for Team USA in <a href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/blog\/golf\/\">golf<\/a> at the Tokyo Olympics.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Schauffele has increased his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/xanderschauffele\/\">Instagram<\/a> following by 9.0% since winning his first major.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Before Sunday\u2019s victory, Schauffele was on the short list of the best players to never win a major. Schauffele entered the PGA Championship with seven career PGA Tour wins, his most notable coming at the 2017 Tour Championship.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Since 2017, Schauffele has been a staple on Sunday leaderboards at major championships. The San Diego native had 12 top-10 finishes heading into the PGA Championship, including an eighth-place finish at the 2024 Masters.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Xander Schauffele\u2019s Biggest Growth On Instagram Since The 2020 Olympics\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The putt that made Xander Schauffele a PGA Champion! \ud83c\udfc6<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PGAChamp?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PGAChamp<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SjBehodFWu\">pic.twitter.com\/SjBehodFWu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 PGA Championship (@PGAChampionship) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PGAChampionship\/status\/1792328674563223600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 19, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Schauffele has gained 40,201 followers since May 1, 2024. This figure represents Schauffele's most followers gained in one month over the past five years<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Schauffele won the gold medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Due to COVID-19, the Olympics were rescheduled to summer 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At Kasumigaseki Country Club, Schauffele finished 18-under to win gold, one stroke ahead of silver medalist Rory Sabbatini.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Schauffele gained 34,538 Instagram followers in August 2021, in large part because of his Olympic win.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports7.com has analyzed Instagram data to see Xander Schauffele\u2019s social media growth since winning the 2024 PGA Championship.\u00a0 Key Highlights: Schauffele has increased his Instagram following by 9.0% since winning his first major Schauffele has added 33,972 Instagram followers since his PGA Championship victory He has added 40,201 Instagram followers in May, his highest in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":321,"featured_media":1581999,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95787],"tags":[447469,8429,447467,447468],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.3 (Yoast SEO v22.9) - 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