Even after the PGA Tour began incentivising players to take to social media with the Player Impact Program (PIP), nothing in Xander Schauffele and Patrick Cantlay’s life really changed. Neither of them were big social media guys before and they certainly didn’t become ones after, which might explain why the two low-key pros are such good friends.
When the wives and girlfriends want you to post and Insta, however, you post the Insta first and ask questions later. That’s what led to a now infamous New Year’s Eve picture of Schauffele, Cantlay, and Schauffele’s wife Maya and Cantlay’s fiancee Nikki Guidish. Infamous because of Cantlay’s outfit, which got ripped to shreds on social media, hence why he and Schauffele usually stay off of it:
What seems like a relatively normal outfit quickly became the fashion faux past of the century according to the opinionated commenters of Instagram and Twitter. Fortunately, as Schauffele explained on this week’s episode of The Loop podcast, Cantlay will likely never see those comments, and he might not have ever even seen the picture itself.
“You can imagine it wasn’t us who wanted to take the photo,” Schauffele said. “But that’s just how it goes. We took probably one too many than we wanted after dinner. Happy wives, happy lives. The girls got their photo. My wife has Instagram and showed me, she was laughing and said ‘people are so mean.’
“I literally wear the same button down everywhere I go. If someone knew that they could have called me out on that. There’s a good chance Pat hasn’t even seen it knowing him, and he never will.”
