Patrick Cantlay

Patrick Cantlay (born March 17, 1992) is an American professional golfer. He had a successful amateur career and was the number one golfer in the World Amateur Golf Ranking for 55 weeks. He has won three times on the PGA Tour, the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open in 2017, the Memorial Tournament in 2019, and the Zozo Championship in 2020.[2]

Patrick Cantlay
Personal information
Born (1992-03-17) March 17, 1992
Long Beach, California
Height5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Weight160 lb (73 kg; 11 st)
Nationality United States
ResidenceNorth Palm Beach, Florida
Career
CollegeUCLA
Turned professional2012
Current tour(s)PGA Tour
European Tour
Former tour(s)Web.com Tour
Professional wins4
Highest ranking6 (October 6, 2019)[1]
(as of January 31, 2021)
Number of wins by tour
PGA Tour3
Korn Ferry Tour1
Best results in major championships
Masters TournamentT9: 2019
PGA ChampionshipT3: 2019
U.S. OpenT21: 2011, 2019
The Open ChampionshipT12: 2018
Achievements and awards
Jack Nicklaus Award2011
Pac-10 Conference
Player of the Year		2011
Haskins Award2011
Mark H. McCormack Medal2011
Ben Hogan Award2012

Amateur career

Cantlay was born in Long Beach, California. He attended Servite High School where he won the California State High School Championship as a senior.

In his freshman year at UCLA, Cantlay won four tournaments and won the Haskins Award as the most outstanding college golfer in 2011. He was also named the Golf Coaches Association of America (GCAA) Division I Jack Nicklaus National Player of the Year.[3] Cantlay also won the Phil Mickelson Award as the GCAA National Freshman of the Year in addition to being the Pac-10 Player of the Year and Freshman of the Year.[4] He also won the Mark H. McCormack Medal as the top-ranked amateur in the world at the end of the 2011 season. This award earned him an invitation to the 2012 Open Championship.[5]

Cantlay qualified for the 2011 U.S. Open through sectional qualifying. He was one of three amateurs to make the cut along with Russell Henley and Brad Benjamin. Rounds of 70 and 72 over the weekend ensured he was low amateur.[6] His back nine 30 was the best in the tournament and he finished in a tie for 21st. The following week, on June 24, Cantlay shot the lowest round in PGA Tour history by an amateur when he shot a course record 60 at the Travelers Championship at TPC River Highlands in Cromwell, Connecticut.[7] The following week, he finished as the low amateur at the AT&T National, finishing in a tie for 20th place. The following week, Cantlay won the Southern California Amateur at the San Gabriel Country Club. He was also low amateur at the 2011 RBC Canadian Open in July, finishing in a tie for ninth place.[8]

On August 6, Cantlay lost to Ethan Tracy in the Western Amateur final at the North Shore Country Club in Glenview, Illinois. On August 28, at Erin Hills in Erin, Wisconsin, he lost in the final of the U.S. Amateur to Kelly Kraft. Making the finals earned him a spot in the 2012 Masters Tournament, where he finished in a tie for 47th, making him the low amateur.

On March 23, 2011 he became world number 1 in the World Amateur Golf Ranking. He holds the records for most consecutive weeks at number one, 54, and held the record for most total weeks at number one, 55, until Jon Rahm eclipsed him in 2016.

Cantlay represented the United States at the 2011 Walker Cup, where he posted a 2–1–1 record.

Professional career

In June 2012, Cantlay decided to forgo his final two years of college to turn professional.[9] The decision to go professional meant forfeiting his spot at the 2012 Open Championship. His professional debut was at the 2012 Travelers Championship, where he missed the cut.[10] Prior to the Travelers, Cantlay announced he would be signing with Mark Steinberg and Excel Sports Management Group, the same management as Tiger Woods.[11] Cantlay was the number one amateur in the world before turning pro, holding the top spot for a record 55 weeks. At the time, he was also ranked 415th in the Official World Golf Ranking. He earned his first professional paycheck at AT&T National, finishing in a tie for 66th. The following week he finished in a tie for 38th at the Greenbrier Classic.

Cantlay earned his first professional win at the 2013 Colombia Championship, an event on the Web.com Tour. He played in the Web.com Tour Finals and finished 11th to earn his PGA Tour card for 2014. In the 2013–14 season he played only five events due to a back injury and was granted an 11-event medical extension. He played in just one tournament the following season, in late 2014, but didn't play at all in 2015 or 2016. As of the start of the 2017 season, ten starts remained on his medical extension.

In February 2016, his caddie, Chris Roth, was killed in a hit-and-run accident in Newport Beach, California while Roth and Cantlay were out on the town. Roth had been a high school teammate of Cantlay's and had caddied for him in his amateur and professional career.[12][13]

In his second start of the 2017 season, Cantlay regained his PGA Tour card with a runner-up finish at the Valspar Championship.[14] He finished third at the Heritage, 10th at the Northern Trust, 13th at the Dell Technologies Championship and 9th at the BMW Championship, which allowed him to qualify to the Tour Championship.

In his second start of the 2018 season, on November 5, 2017, Cantlay won his first PGA Tour title at the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open on the second extra hole of a three-man playoff.[2] It was the second consecutive year in which his second start of the season secured his Tour card for the following season.

On November 4, 2018, Cantlay narrowly missed defending his title at the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open. He finished second by one stroke to champion Bryson DeChambeau.

In 2019, he finished tied for third place at the PGA Championship behind winner, Brooks Koepka. Two weeks later he won the Memorial Tournament in Dublin, Ohio, a result that lifted him into the world top-10 for the first time.[15] Cantlay shot a final round of 64 to come from four strokes behind the 54-hole leader Martin Kaymer and win his second PGA Tour title.

In October 2019, Cantlay again narrowly missed winning the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open. He lost a playoff to Kevin Na on the second playoff hole.

In December 2019, Cantlay played on the U.S. team at the 2019 Presidents Cup at Royal Melbourne Golf Club in Australia. The U.S. team won 16–14. Cantlay went 3–2–0 and won his Sunday singles match against Joaquín Niemann.[16]

In October 2020, Cantlay won the Zozo Championship at Sherwood Country Club in Thousand Oaks, California. The event normally takes place in Japan but was moved to California in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[17]

At The American Express in January 2021, Cantlay made the halfway cut on the number; and then fired twenty birdies over the weekend, including in a 11-under-par final round 61 to post a 22-under total and the clubhouse lead. He was eventually edged out by a single stroke by Kim Si-woo.[18]

Personal life

Patrick was born in Long Beach, California to Steve Cantlay and Colleen Neylan Cantlay. He has a sister, Caroline Cantlay, and two brothers, Nick Cantlay and Jack Cantlay.[19]

Professional wins (4)

PGA Tour wins (3)
No.DateTournamentWinning scoreMargin of
victory		Runner(s)-up
1 Nov 5, 2017 Shriners Hospitals for Children Open −9 (67-71-70-67=275) Playoff Alex Čejka, Kim Meen-whee
2 Jun 2, 2019 Memorial Tournament −19 (68-69-68-64=269) 2 strokes Adam Scott
3 Oct 25, 2020 Zozo Championship −23 (67-65-68-65=265) 1 stroke Jon Rahm, Justin Thomas

PGA Tour playoff record (1–1)

No.YearTournamentOpponent(s)Result
1 2017 Shriners Hospitals for Children Open Alex Čejka, Kim Meen-whee Won with par on second extra hole
2 2019 Shriners Hospitals for Children Open Kevin Na Lost to par on second extra hole

Web.com Tour wins (1)
No.DateTournamentWinning scoreMargin of
victory		Runner-up
1 Mar 3, 2013 Colombia Championship −18 (67-68-65-66=266) 4 strokes Jim Renner

Web.com Tour playoff record (0–1)

No.YearTournamentOpponentsResult
1 2012 Chiquita Classic Russell Henley, Morgan Hoffmann Henley won with par on first extra hole

Results in major championships

Results not in chronological order in 2020.

Tournament 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
Masters Tournament T47LA CUT
U.S. Open T21LA T41 T45
The Open Championship T12
PGA Championship T33 T27
Tournament 20192020
Masters Tournament T9 T17
PGA Championship T3 T43
U.S. Open T21 T43
The Open Championship T41 NT
  Top 10
  Did not play

LA = Low amateur
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied for place
NT = No tournament due to COVID-19 pandemic

Summary
TournamentWins2nd3rdTop-5Top-10Top-25EventsCuts made
Masters Tournament00001243
PGA Championship00111144
U.S. Open00000255
The Open Championship00000122
Totals0011261514
  • Most consecutive cuts made – 10 (2018 U.S. Open – 2020 Masters, current)
  • Longest streak of top-10s – 2 (2019 Masters – 2019 PGA)

Results in The Players Championship
Tournament 2017 2018 2019
The Players Championship T22 T23 CUT

CUT = missed the halfway cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place

Results in World Golf Championships
Tournament2017201820192020
Championship T30 T6
Match Play T17 T24 NT1
Invitational T6 T12 T35
Champions T15 T7 NT1

1Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic

  Top 10
  Did not play

NT = No tournament
"T" = Tied

PGA Tour career summary
SeasonStartsCuts
made		Wins2nd3rdTop-10Top-25Best
finish		Earnings
($)		Money
list rank[20]
20115500014T9n/a[a]n/a
20127600000T31105,526n/a
20137200011T9195,411n/a
20145200001T2376,131212
201511000007611,468249
201713130114822,049,63247
2018232110071513,963,96220
2019211812291716,121,4884
202012110103722,118,33636
Career*94792432553114,641,954131[21]

a Cantlay was an amateur.

* As of the 2020 season

U.S. national team appearances

Amateur

Professional

See also

References
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  5. "Patrick Cantlay gets spot in British Open". ESPN. Associated Press. November 30, 2011.
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  8. "RBC Canadian Open 2011". Golf Channel. Retrieved June 12, 2018.
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  10. "Travelers Championship 2012". Golf Channel. Retrieved June 12, 2018.
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  12. Hoggard, Rex (February 19, 2016). "Players, caddies pay tribute to caddie killed in hit-and-run". Golf Channel.
  13. Lavner, Ryan (February 8, 2017). "Years later, Cantlay returns from injury, tragedy". Golf Channel.
  14. "Adam Hadwin's win books spot at Masters, to delay honeymoon". ESPN. Associated Press. March 12, 2017.
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