{"id":435805,"date":"2025-07-15T11:02:42","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T11:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/?p=435805"},"modified":"2025-07-15T11:02:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T11:02:42","slug":"utterly-disgusting-and-unwatchable-why-stefan-schauffele-is-fed-up-with-the-ryder-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/utterly-disgusting-and-unwatchable-why-stefan-schauffele-is-fed-up-with-the-ryder-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Utterly Disgusting and Unwatchable&#8221;: Why Stefan Schauffele Is Fed Up with the Ryder Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stefan Schauffelle has revealed why he is fed up with the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/ryder-cup-race-heats-up-whos-locked-in-and-whos-falling-out\/\" target=\"_self\">Ryder Cup<\/a> and insisted that he would not be attending the tournament at Bethpage Black. Stefan, who is <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/fan-struck-by-xander-schauffeles-ball-gets-surprise-100-gift\/\" target=\"_self\">Xander Schauffele\u2019s<\/a> father, slammed the biennial event and labelled it \u201c<a  href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GolfDigest\/status\/1944834283451138116?t=ayxKxamD65AHKvwYenKC8g&amp;s=08\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">utterly disgusting and unwatchable<\/a>\u201d in a recent interview.<\/p>\n<h2>Stefan Doesn&#8217;t Miss The PGA Tour and Won&#8217;t Attend Ryder Cup<\/h2>\n<p>Stefan shared a deeply troubling moment from the 2021 Ryder Cup at Whistling Straits in a recent interview. According to him, a fan shouted a vile insult at Shane Lowry\u2019s wife in front of both her and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/2019\/07\/21\/shane-lowry-open-championship-victory\/\" target=\"_self\">Lowry himself<\/a>. Stefan also complained about how outrageous the Ryder Cup has become in recent years and said he has no plans to attend this September at Bethpage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo I miss the PGA Tour? No. I\u2019m not going to the Ryder Cup either. I\u2019m afraid of what\u2019s going to happen in New York. I was there [at Whistling Straits] when they called Shane Lowry\u2019s wife a w**** in front of him. I couldn\u2019t believe my ears.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stefan also pointed to another controversial moment at the 2023 Ryder Cup in Rome, when Rory McIlroy had a heated confrontation in the parking lot with American caddie Joe LaCava. The drama unfolded after McIlroy felt LaCava disrespected him by celebrating too close during a crucial match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen I saw what happened in Rome. That was utterly disgusting, claiming this money bullsh*t and Rory (McIlroy) behaved disgustingly in my opinion (when he confronted Cantlay\u2019s caddie, Joe LaCava, in the car park) It\u2019s only going to get worse. It\u2019s ruined my appetite for the Ryder Cup. It becomes unwatchable.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Stefan Reveals His Son Turned Down Huge Amount To Remain in PGA Tour<\/h2>\n<p>Stefan also revealed Xander once turned down a staggering $200 million offer from LIV Golf. Despite the huge payday, Stefan said the decision was easy. He insisted that Xander was more concerned about his integrity and wouldn\u2019t have joined LIV Golf even if they offered $400 million.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_435810\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-435810\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-435810\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2025\/07\/USATSI_25661283_168416623_lowres-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2025\/07\/USATSI_25661283_168416623_lowres-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2025\/07\/USATSI_25661283_168416623_lowres-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2025\/07\/USATSI_25661283_168416623_lowres-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2025\/07\/USATSI_25661283_168416623_lowres-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2025\/07\/USATSI_25661283_168416623_lowres-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2025\/07\/USATSI_25661283_168416623_lowres-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2025\/07\/USATSI_25661283_168416623_lowres-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-435810\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, USA; Xander Shauffele, left, and Rory Mcllry walk the eighteenth fairway during the first round of The Players Championship golf tournament at TPC Sawgrass. Mandatory Credit: Jeff Swinger-Imagn Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Stefan had dreams of his own long before Xander became a golf star. He was a German decathlete and had his sights set on the Olympics. But in 1986, a drunk driver crashed into him and ended his athletic career before it truly began.<\/p>\n<p>Years later, Xander fulfilled that Olympic dream for both of them by winning gold at the Tokyo Games in 2021. After the win, he handed the medal to his father. \u201cYou\u2019re going to make me cry just thinking about it,\u201d Stefan said. \u201cHe understood how huge the Olympics was for me. We got in the car and he gave me the medal and said, \u2018This is for you.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo Credit: \u00a9 Peter Casey-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stefan Schauffelle has revealed why he is fed up with the Ryder Cup and insisted that he would not be attending the tournament at Bethpage Black. Stefan, who is Xander Schauffele\u2019s father, slammed the biennial event and labelled it \u201cutterly disgusting and unwatchable\u201d in a recent interview. Stefan Doesn&#8217;t Miss The PGA Tour and Won&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5425,"featured_media":435809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,19],"tags":[234,8145,288],"class_list":["post-435805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-golf","category-pga","tag-ryder-cup","tag-stefan-shauffele","tag-xander-shauffele"],"modified_by":"Ajayi Segun","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435805"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":435811,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435805\/revisions\/435811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}