Xander Schauffele wins Open Championship after final-round 65 - ESPN

TROON, Scotland — Xander Schauffele's critics used to say he didn't have the nerves or backbone to win one of golf's major championships.

Now, the 30-year-old PGA Tour star from San Diego can't stop winning them.

Two months after Schauffele captured his first major championship victory at the PGA Championship at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky, he added a second one Sunday at the 152nd Open Championship at Royal Troon Golf Club.

On a day when seven golfers started the final round within one shot of leader Billy Horschel, Schauffele was the man holding the Claret Jug at the iconic links course on Scotland's west coast. He posted a 6-under 65 on Sunday, just like he did in the final round of the PGA Championship, and his 72-hole total of 9-under 275 put him two strokes ahead of Horschel and England's Justin Rose.

South Africa's Thriston Lawrence was another stroke back.

Xander Schauffele, who is just the sixth golfer to win his first two majors in the same year, became just the seventh golfer to win the PGA Championship and The Open in the same year.

According to ESPN Stats & Information, Schauffele is the first golfer in the Masters era (since 1934) to have multiple final rounds of 65 or better in majors in the same year.

It's the seventh consecutive major won by an American golfer, the longest such streak since they captured 13 straight from 1974 to 1977.

It's the first year since 1982 that U.S. golfers claimed all four majors — Scottie Scheffler won the Masters and Bryson DeChambeau captured the U.S. Open.

Schauffele is the first golfer since Brooks Koepka in 2018 (U.S. Open and PGA Championship) to claim two majors in one season. It's only the seventh time a player won both the PGA Championship and The Open