Ryder Cup: Patrick Cantlay ‘past dedicated’ and is not sporting hat because it ‘does not match’, says USA captain Zach Johnson | Golf Information

Patrick Cantlay denies studies that he refused to put on the Workforce USA hat over not being paid to play within the Ryder Cup, saying, “the hat does not match”; Watch the Sunday singles dwell from 9am on Sky Sports activities Golf, forward of first tee from 10.35am

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A number of drama on the 18th gap on Day 2 as Workforce USA wave their caps again on the Ryder Cup crowd as Patrick Cantlay earns his group an important level.

Workforce USA captain Zach Johnson has denied claims of a rift inside his camp and performed down studies Patrick Cantlay is upset at not being paid to play on the Ryder Cup.

Sky Sports activities reported on Saturday that Workforce USA had been embroiled in an inner dispute in the course of the Ryder Cup with Cantlay demonstrating his frustration at not being paid by refusing to put on a group cap.

The previous FedExCup champion didn’t attend the gala dinner earlier within the week and, alongside together with his shut buddy Xander Schauffele, is claimed to be sitting is a separate space of the group dressing room.

However Cantlay, alongside together with his caddie, denied these studies when addressing the press after incomes an important level within the last fourballs match on Saturday, seeing the USA eat into Europe’s lead by claiming the session 3-1.

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The most effective of the motion from day two of the Ryder Cup at Marco Simone Golf & Nation Membership in Italy.

“That is the primary I heard of it proper after I bought off the inexperienced,” he stated. “That is the furthest factor from the reality.

“It isn’t about that [being paid]. It is nearly Workforce USA and representing our nation.”

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Patrick Cantlay rubbishes claims he is not sporting his Workforce USA hat as a type of protest for not being paid to play and says there aren’t any unity issues throughout the group.

On this problem of his hat, and when requested if he’d put on it for a group picture, Cantlay added: “The hat does not match. It did not match at Whistling Straits [in 2021], and did not match this week. Everybody is aware of that.

“I used to be going to go no hat all week regardless, so I figured would I preserve it constant.”

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Patrick Cantlay superb three putts on the final three holes helped Workforce USA declare some extent and preserve their Ryder Cup hopes alive.

Cantlay: The group was on me all day

Regardless of the studies relating to him, Cantlay produced some nice golf within the last match of the day, birdieing the final three holes to see him and Wyndham Clark beat Rory McIlroy and Matt Fitzpatrick 1UP. Europe lead USA by 5 factors – 10.5-5.5 – going into Sunday’s singles.

In a fiery end, the gathered US gamers and caddies on the 18th inexperienced pointedly waved their hats in celebration at Cantlay’s birdie putt, incomes the ire of McIlroy who had just a few phrases for Cantlay’s caddie Joe LaCava, earlier than issues spilled over once more within the automobile park afterwards.

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A livid Rory McIlroy confronted Workforce USA caddie Jim ‘Bones’ Mackay within the carpark put up spherical after an incident on the 18th gap.

Cantlay stated of the flashpoint: “I used to be too busy letting out all of the emotion that constructed up over the day. I did not get an excellent have a look at it.”

The American added that the stick he obtained in the course of the day from the European dwelling crowd helped gasoline his robust end.

“The group was on me all day,” he stated. “I simply used it as gasoline and hopefully we are able to construct a bit off this small little bit of momentum we have got going.

“We have seen what they did at Medinah [coming back to win in 2012]. We now have a steeper hill to climb than they did however we will give it our greatest shot.

“We have been on a mission all week. We’re going to be on a mission tomorrow.”

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Workforce Europe captain Luke Donald weighs in on the cap drama that unfolded on the 18th and insists gamers should not be paid to play within the Ryder Cup.

Johnson: Cantlay past dedicated

Workforce USA captain Zach Johnson additionally dismissed the studies of a rift among the many group, which Cantlay was on the coronary heart of.

“I’ll assume it is social media rubbish of that nature,” he stated. “That is the closest knit group I’ve ever been related to.

“This group is completely different, it is particular. Patrick is a kind of 12.

“He’s past dedicated. If something, I want to emphasise that he has been an superior chief inside our clubhouse.

“That’s an asinine assertion. That is all I’ll say.”

Johnson later added on Cantlay and hat-gate: “I do not assume he likes the match of the hats. I do know that. That is what the info are.

“And one other truth, among the stalwarts and legends of the European recreation that I like and, frankly, have modelled numerous my recreation after by no means wore hats within the Ryder Cup.”

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