Xander Schauffele is withdrawing from The American Express this week in the California desert. That makes two of the top players in the world ranking to have withdrawn in the last two weeks.

PGA and British Open champion Xander Schauffele withdrew from The American Express on Monday for medical reasons, the second highly-ranked player who had to pull out of the third PGA Tour event of the season.

World No. 2 Xander Schauffele has withdrawn from this week’s tournament in the California desert for an undisclosed reason.

Xander Schauffele has decided to skip the third event of the 2025 PGA Tour season in Southern California. World No. 2 Xander Schauffele has withdrawn from The American Express, according to the official PGA Tour Communications social channels.

For the second time in two weeks, the PGA Tour's stop in the California desert has lost one of the top players in the world.

Xander Schauffele has withdrawn from the 2025 American Express, the PGA Tour announced Monday. The world No. 2 joins world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler in removing his name from the field list, though unlike with Scheffler,

Xander Schauffele, the world's number two ranked player, surprisingly withdrew from The American Express on Monday.

The reality is the only time when the best players in the world will compete against each other is at the four majors — the Masters (April 10-13), the PGA Championship at Quail Hollow (May 15-18), the U.S. Open at Oakmont (June 12-15), and the Open Championship at Royal Portrush (July 17-20).

The major championship slate is wiped clean as the calendar flips to the new year and players eye four opportunities to claim golf immortality in 2025. The 2024 major championship results were rather predictable with Scottie Scheffler securing his second green jacket in the last three years and Bryson DeChambeau raising another U.