Patrick Cantlay moved one round closer to winning before home fans at Riviera on his favorite course. He just moved the wrong way at the end Saturday in the Genesis Invitational.
Cantlay got up-and-down from short of the 18th green to save par for a 1-under 70, giving him a two-shot lead over good friend Xander Schauffele (65) and Will Zalatoris (65).
Cantlay was at 14-under 199 and will play in the final group with Schauffele, his closest friend on the PGA Tour. Luke List (68) was three shots behind, while Harris English (65) and Jason Day (69) were another shot back going into the final round.
At stake is a $4 million payoff to the winner of the signature event, a boost in first-place money as a player-hosted tournament. The host is Tiger Woods, who might not be around to present the trophy. Woods confirmed on X he had influenza, the cause of him withdrawing Friday.
You know golf’s like that sometimes I’ve had some some close calls um you know I had a year uh not too long ago where it felt like every close call went my way and uh lately it hasn’t been like that the last year or so but looking to change that
Tomorrow yeah I mean I played solid golf today I didn’t make any long putts or anything um didn’t really give myself too many chances but all in all a solid day and in good position for tomorrow I don’t think so I think I mean when we play on Mondays and Tuesdays
We’re trying to beat each other I think the only time we’re we’re really rooting um like hard for each other is when we’re playing Team events I mean you know we joke I’m rooting for myself harder than anyone else and and same goes for him but of course I’d like to
See him to do well but uh when we’re in the final group together um you know it it’s pretty obvious what we’re trying to do yeah I just keep doing what we’re doing I mean uh you know Pat’s playing some really good golf um you know it’s again
This is even though that this golf course like I said the greens are the fastest I’ve ever seen him and there’ve been a couple really uh small changes to the greens to add a couple of new pens I mean it it’s still got some teeth to it
I mean you can’t really fake it around this place so um you know I I got away with a couple of really bad t- shots today and end up making a few birdies and and a few really nice bars out of it but um I just got to keep doing what I’m
Doing and uh you know whatever it adds up to it it is what it is I’m kind of back a little bit um if I can go out there and shoot a decent score especially on a Sunday cuz Sunday scores as you know a little bit
Different to uh the rest of the week uh everything tightens up so it might might get myself a shot if I can shoot a decent one
