PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland >> Don’t feel bad for Xander Schauffele having to return the claret jug when he arrived at Royal Portrush to defend his title in the British Open. It’s not like he had anywhere to keep it.

Schauffele has won eight times in his PGA Tour career. That includes two majors, the British Open and the PGA Championship. It includes the Tour Championship in his rookie season. And it includes the Olympic gold medal from Tokyo in 2021.

Where to keep it all? Not at his house. Schauffele said his parents keep all his trophies, “probably in a bank vault.” They have a home in San Diego, and his father is building a place on Kauai, living in what Stefan Schauffele calls “the container.”

The gold medal?

“I actually have no idea where that is, to be completely honest,” Schauffele said.

It’s not all that surprising considering how simple Schauffele and his wife prefer to live. He celebrates a little more than Scottie Scheffler, but much like the world’s No. 1 player, it’s on to the next tournament to start over.

“What am I going to do with it? I don’t really invite people over to my house. Am I just going to go look at it myself?” he said. “I don’t want to walk into a trophy room like, ‘Look how great I am.’ I was just raised to think that way, and it’s kind of stuck.”

That begs the question: What is on the shelves of their Florida home if not trophies?

“My wife hung up some pictures of me in my gym of me winning the Olympic medal, and she put it so high up I can’t reach it,” Schauffele said. “I have to get a ladder now, and it bothers me. If anything, put up me in a Masters jacket, like that would piss me off, you know what I mean? Something like that is more motivating.”

If it were up to Schauffele, he would hang photos of his dogs. Or nothing. Maybe a clock.

“I’m always late, so maybe a clock would be good for me,” he said.

He said Ryder Cup captain Keegan Bradley has told him to be sure to enjoy big wins, and Schauffele figures he will do that at some point.

“But right now I really want to keep my head down and keep charging,” he said.

Doral in the mix?

Sports Business Journal is reporting that Doral might be back on the PGA Tour schedule for the first time since the tour left it for Mexico in 2017.

It cited industry sources as saying the PGA Tour plans to add the new tournament that would be April 30-May 3, which ordinarily would be a spot occupied by the Mexico Open.

A PGA Tour spokesman said no such deal had been signed. The first part of the 2026 schedule already has some tweaks that include Pebble Beach and Riviera being in consecutive weeks in February, and the Nelson and Colonial in Texas being held in consecutive weeks for the first time since 2018.

Getting Doral back on the schedule would be a shot across the bow for Saudi-funded LIV Golf, which has held events at Trump Doral every year since it launched in 2022. It is one of the few courses on the LIV schedule that general golf fans know.