Patrick Cantlay Drops a BOMB Regarding His LIV Golf Future

Patrick Cantlay dropped a BOMB regarding his future with the PGA Tour and LIV Golf in a recent exclusive interview with Golf Magazine’s Dylan Dethier.

Cantlay has been one of the most polarizing figures in golf as of the last few years and his future on the PGA Tour and potential defect to LIV Golf has been highly speculated. His name has been one that is brought up often in terms of the next names to potentially join LIV Golf, and after Hat Gate at the Ryder Cup, more people than ever before were convinced of his departure.

However, Cantlay made his decision more than clear in the interview with Dethier, and it does not sound like he’ll ever being leaving the PGA Tour:

“It’s a personal calculation based on your values, your priorities, etc. So I don’t think it’s a surprise that there’s a certain type of player that’s tended to go over there, on the whole. For me? I have no plans on joining LIV. I don’t plan on joining LIV. I see myself playing on the PGA Tour.”

Cantlay’s calm demeanor and stone-cold focus on the course makes him one of the fiercest competitors on Tour. But a poker faced baseline does not give off much outside of his rounds, and his personality makes it hard to determine what he is thinking.

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Unlike other players on Tour, Cantlay has been relatively quiet in terms of speaking publicly about his beliefs. While he was transparent that LIV offered him a contract to defect from the PGA Tour, rumors suggested he had stepped up as the main figure in Tour Players Meetings.

I got breakfast with Patrick Cantlay and we talked about his year.

On his PGA Tour role, LIV offers, Ryder Cup pressure, hats, lack thereof, Rory, Tiger, slow play, golf’s future and what it’s like for everybody to suddenly have an opinion about you:https://t.co/bNAA7zQUpB

— Dylan Dethier (@dylan_dethier) December 31, 2023

Offers from LIV were not enough to get him to sway away from the responsibility he feels:

“I declined offers. Pre and post joining the board. And the most recent offer I got, I declined in the same meeting that my management team brought it to me.”

Cantlay has been a crutch for the American Ryder Cup team over the past two tournaments, and while Brooks Koepka was able to make the team despite his LIV Golf membership, mostly due to his triumph at Oak Hill and the PGA, it would be a long shot to make the team without a Major.

In fact, the rules regarding LIV Golfers and Ryder Cup members seems to be more up in the air than ever. Although Rory McIlroy has been outspoken about their players and their qualification for the tournament, Jon Rahm's decision to leave the Tour and join LIV has him singing a different tune.

“Jon is going to be in Bethpage in 2025 so, because of this decision, the European Tour (DP World Tour) are going to have to rewrite the rules for the Ryder Cup eligibility. There’s absolutely no question about that...I certainly want Jon Rahm on the next Ryder Cup team.”

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