There will likely be not hat controversies at Royal Montreal – a minimum of not involving Patrick Cantlay.
Cantlay went sans headwear throughout final 12 months’s Ryder Cup in Rome, a choice that sparked quite a few rumors and studies – and a great deal of heckles from the pro-European crowd – although Cantlay and his teammates denied the style alternative was a type of protest.
“It simply doesn’t match, it’s so simple as that,” mentioned Cantlay, who additionally didn’t don a hat on the 2021 Ryder Cup.
This week is a distinct story, as Cantlay, a minimum of thus far in observe, has been sporting a team-issued cap. The topic didn’t come up in Cantlay’s media scrum on Tuesday, although U.S. captain Jim Furyk was requested about it and answered with some levity.
“We lastly had one which had that odd of a form that it could truly match on there,” Furyk mentioned. “I believe a number of it’s our distributors. He wore a hat two years in the past in Charlotte. We had the identical distributors on the PGA Tour, and he appears to be comfy. If my guys are comfy in hats, they’ll put on hats. In the event that they’re not comfy in hats, it doesn’t matter.
“It doesn’t work out too nicely for me, I’ll simply say. My head will flip purple after a day, however I need them comfy. I believe we’d each say that the clothes this 12 months, my guys adore it.”
