Patrick Cantlay is an American professional golfer. He was the number one golfer in the World Amateur Golf Ranking for 55 weeks. Cantlay represented the United States at the 2011 Walker Cup. He turned professional in June 2012, forfeiting his spot at the 2012 Open Championship.
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Patrick Cantlay is an American professional golfer. He 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. Cantlay represented the United States at the 2011 Walker Cup, where he posted a 2–1–1 record. He turned professional in June 2012, forfeiting his spot at the 2012 Open Championship. In February 2016, his caddie, Chris Roth, was killed in a hit-and-run accident in Newport Beach, California. Roth had been a high school teammate of Cantlay’s and caddied for him in his amateur and professional career.
In his second start of the 2017 season, Cantlay regained his PGA tour card with a runner-up finish at the Valspar Championship. He won the 2013 Colombia Championship, an event on the Web. com Tour. He played in the 2014 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 remained on the 2014 season until his medical extension expired at the end of the season in February 2016. In January 2017, he returned to the Tour and finished 10th at the Northern Technologies Championship.
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