Patrick Cantlay Wednesday Press Conference 2024 The American Express © PGA Tour
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All right well we will go ahead and get started i’ like to welcome world number six Patrick kentley to the interview room here at the 2024 American Express Pat thank you for joining us for a few minutes making your sixth start here in the American Express with good success I
Think top five top 10 and three of your last five highlighted most likely by the 61 and 21 to get the runner up um to just with that said just some thoughts on being back here to a place that you’re comfortable and familiar and good with yeah sure a tournament that I’ve
Played a lot and um a place I really like it’s only a couple hours from where I grew up uh and by now golf courses that I feel very comfortable on I know it’ll take uh quite a few under similar to Maui and um so we’ll see how many
Birdies I can make you finished last season strong with top five finishes in two of the three playoffs events and then uh I think top 15 at centry do you enjoy were you able to put the clubs down enjoy some time in the offseason a little bit and are you
Feeling good coming into this season yeah definitely uh like I’ve said before being at home is like a vacation um and so it’s been nice to have some time off but now that we’re starting the season I’m ready to go okay uh and one last question for me and then I’ll take it
From you guys when you come to an event like this that’s got multiple courses is there any kind of a a kind of a multiple mindset for lack of a better term or do you just take what’s kind of in front of you at the time and and play that kind
Of Patrick hle golf on that particular course at the time yeah I think it’s important really to be patient around these tracks I think um you can make two three four five birdies in a row out here but when you’re making pars you’re feeling like you’re falling behind
Sometimes you just have to wait for your stretch of holes so um especially on Nicholas tournament and linta they feel like courses that you’ve got to shoot three four under a side um and so you know I know that but it at the same time play my normal Golf and and stay patient
Okay well with that we’ll take a few questions we’ll start with Larry everyone you’ll hear somebody say they don’t really come here or maybe even a cap because you do have to go low early in the year and maybe they’re not as comfortable with trying to make that
Many birdies so fast you clearly don’t have that problem 61 is still an amazing score um so you’re you’re comfortable with the idea that 25 26 27 unders where you need to be this week right yeah definitely it’s just it’s just the way it is I mean you could change all the
Pars to 70 take the take the par fivs that are the hardest and you know the everyday uh for the tournament the scores would be more around 20 under par so it it’s all the same I mean it’s just you got to take advantage of the par
Fivs out here those are the scoring holes um on all three golf courses and if you play from the Fairway you’ll have tons of wedges on the rest of the holes um the three courses are kind of different in their character but it seems like they’ve leveled out in terms
Of their scoring average over the last it used to be Lina was so easy uh you’re starting at Lita tomorrow is you feel like that’s an advantage or does it really matter to you I don’t think it matters much I think they’ve all become golf courses that you need to score
Really well on to have a chance at winning and uh even Stadium a lot of guys will will shoot 5 six seven8 under par at Stadium uh these days um I think linta you know before was maybe easier but also people had a different mindset playing Stadium than they do the Last 5
Years I mean the mindset now is everyone knows you need to get into the the mid 20s uh to have a chance so I think that’s just kind of the the nature of people getting better and and learning that if they want to have a chance to
Win they need to be more aggressive and make more birdies go right over here hey Pat Uh what would you deem a successful 2024 season good question um you know I think two things uh consistency and then also winning golf tournaments that’s really it has how you define success
Changed as you do rack up wins and you look for certain tournaments and things you want to pick off has it changed over the last couple years I don’t think it’s changed I think my mindset has been to put yourself in contention at as many
Tournaments as you can and um by way of doing that you should close a number of them and so that’s what I mean kind of by that consistent play having lots of opportunities to win and then winning um because really that’s that’s what that’s what we’re all out here to
Do tiger said at the hero that he was up until like you know way late in the night trying to handle all these negotiations are you busy right now like that are you still B are you balancing golf with trying to get this deal over the Finish
Line yeah well take a step back I mean I have a responsibility to the membership to represent them uh as best as possible and I care deeply about that so doing a good job there is not only what I want to do but also my responsibility and
Seeing through this deal um as best as possible to set up the PJ tour players both now and in the future is a priority for me that aside um as far as my golf goes that is my primary job as my golf and um doing everything I can time
Management wise to have have enough time to prioriti PRI prioritize both things correctly is important and a challenge but um that’s life and you’re not finding I mean Rory spoke last year about how it was put so much stress on him are you finding you’re able to compartmentalize yeah I think it’s one
Of my strengths is compartmentalizing and being as focused as I possibly can be at the task at hand um and so I think there’s a little more effort to try to focus solely on golf while I’m golfing but I’m able to do that uh just with the new signature
Event model and how they’re kind of stacked in consecutive weeks or in between Majors on other either sides of it how do you do you think you’ll plan your schedule accordingly in terms of how you’re leading up to those events or which ones you prioritize um heading
Into the Signature Events I think I’ve played a very similar schedule for the last two three 3 four years and so I don’t see that changing very much um I think last year I played every signature event um which most likely will be the same this year
In general I try to pick golf courses that I like um and so it ends up being a lot of the same golf courses year after year anybody else all right easy enough well Patrick thank you for coming in we appreciate it thanks very much have a great week
