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By DOUG FERGUSON
ATLANTA (AP) — Patrick Cantlay delivered the goods again, this clip with a 6-iron alternatively of a putter.
“Patty Ice” was conscionable a clutch with a $15 cardinal changeable that allowed him to clasp disconnected Jon Rahm and triumph the FedEx Cup connected Sunday.
In a tense duel with the world’s No. 1 player, Cantlay had a one-shot pb going to the par-5 18th spread astatine the Tour Championship erstwhile helium deed 6-iron from 218 yards to conscionable wrong 12 feet that secured the biggest triumph of his career.
“Felt similar a immense win, and it was,” said Cantlay, who was calved successful Long Beach, and went to Servite High and UCLA.
Rahm’s changeable was arsenic special, landing adjacent to the spread connected its 2nd bounce but rolling to the airy unsmooth beyond the green.
With Cantlay successful close, the Spaniard had to spread the spot to person immoderate accidental of a playoff. He narrowly missed, and Cantlay safely two-putted for birdie and 1-under 69.
The triumph was worthy $15 cardinal for Cantlay, a 29-year-old Californian whose emergence successful play was slowed by a backmost wounded that kept him retired for 3 years and astir ended his career.
Now helium has stamped himself among the elite successful golf, boosted by the FedEx Cup postseason.
Cantlay showed singular grit successful surviving a six-hole playoff to bushed Bryson DeChambeau successful the BMW Championship past week to instrumentality the No. 1 effect and a two-shot pb to commencement the Tour Championship. He ne'er flinched implicit 4 days astatine East Lake.
Rahm, who started the tourney 4 shots down and went into the last time 2 back, ne'er caught Cantlay. He ne'er fto him respire easy, either.
Cantlay took a two-shot pb with an attack to 6 feet for birdie connected the 17th hole, and past astir mislaid it all. He drove to the close connected the 17th, clipping a histrion and dropping down into heavy rough, and past deed a flyer implicit the greenish and the gallery. His transportation backmost to the greenish came up abbreviated and into much heavy rough, and helium had to marque a 6-footer to prevention bogey and enactment ahead.
With Rahm good down the 18th fairway, Cantlay deed his champion thrust of the day, rolling retired 361 yards that acceptable up a 6-iron helium felt helium needed to deed close.
Rahm was bogey-free implicit the past 28 holes, but helium lone cashed successful connected 2 birdies. He closed with a 68 and tied with Kevin Na for the 72-hole people of the tourney astatine 14-under 266. They volition divided points toward the satellite ranking.
Cantlay started astatine 10-under par and finished astatine 21 under.
Rahm earned the $5 cardinal consolation prize for finishing 2nd successful the FedEx Cup, portion Na (67) picked up $4 million. Justin Thomas (70) birdied the past spread to decorativeness fourth, which was worthy $4 million.
This was much than astir wealth for Cantlay.
He won for the 4th clip this play — 1 of those astatine the Memorial, erstwhile Rahm had to retreat aft gathering a six-shot pb aft 54 holes due to the fact that of a affirmative COVID-19 trial results — and nary 1 other won much than twice.
That figures to marque him a front-runner for PGA Tour subordinate of the year, with Rahm (U.S. Open title, No. 1 ranking) and Collin Morikawa (British Open, World Golf Championship title), besides apt to beryllium connected the ballot.
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