Patrick Cantlay's Rising Momentum for FedEx St. Jude Championship
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00:00Let's start the outrights.
00:04We always do one highlight and then we'll get the rest of the card after the break.
00:08And I'm with you.
00:09And I always say I love when we're reading the same mail.
00:12And for the outrights this week, we got a bunch of guys that were reading the same mail,
00:17including Patrick Cantlay at 25 to 1.
00:21Now, I think Patrick's played well since the U.S. Open, a lot better than he's played all
00:26year.
00:27He, of course, lost in a playoff here a year ago to Lucas Glover.
00:31Yeah, he definitely fits the golf course.
00:33He likes the golf course.
00:35He's a good Bermuda grass player.
00:36He's also a good middle America player.
00:38He's been good at the Memorial.
00:39He's been good at other spots around this part of the country.
00:43And you know, the thing with me is that I talked to his teacher after the Memorial,
00:47when he missed the cut badly in the signature event, he went to the U.S. Open early and
00:51he had kind of a come to Patrick moment there.
00:54And since then, he's been gaining on approach steadily, and he's also been gaining with
00:57the putter.
00:58But when you start hitting it close, then you start to, like, feel good about other
01:02parts of your game.
01:03I mean, this guy gained six strokes at Royal Troon in the bad weather wave on approach.
01:07So now you put him in the playoffs where he's already been a FedExCup champion, where he
01:11already has three playoff wins.
01:14This guy's going to ride some momentum this time of year.
01:16And I just love the way he's hitting.
01:18I saw him on the range today.
01:19I mean, the star comparison, he was sitting next to his buddy, Max Homa.
01:23The two of them hitting balls side by side, it couldn't have been any different.
01:26And Patrick was just absolutely, he was as cool as the Iceman can be.
01:30I feel really, really good about him as a pick this week.
01:34And guess what?
01:35He's 11th right now.
01:36I know he's secure for Eastlake and everything, but for the last three years, this guy has
01:40finished in the top 10 in the FedExCup points, right, at the end of the year.
01:45He is a playoff performer, and that's the type of guys that we are looking for this
01:49year.
01:50He's going to be dominated by where he finishes at the end of the year.
01:52And I think that that's really, really important.
01:55And you know what?
01:56At the end of the day, the rain we got today, which you're not going to hear about on weather
01:59reports and everything, it softened the golf course up to make it super target-oriented.
02:03These guys that are on point with their iron game, like Cantley, and have proven they can
02:08score here before, are absolutely super, super live this week.
02:1330 seconds, Keith, and we're going to do the rest of the card after the break.
02:17How much are you looking at, guys, between 5 and 70, who obviously, they really need
02:23to get it going this week, because they want to get to Denver next week for the BMW?
02:27Well, the tour loves to talk about how much movement there is and everything, but the
02:30fact of the matter is, only two guys jumped last year, and two guys fell out, right?
02:34The guys that got in were Cam Davis and Hideki, right?
02:36I mean, it's Hideki, right?
02:37So I don't expect there to be a lot of movement.
02:39I expect those guys to be real aggressive from 70 to 50, but I don't expect a lot of
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