Patrick Cantlay Tuesday Press Conference 2024 Arnold Palmer Invitational © PGA Tour

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All right we’ll get started we’d like to welcome Patrick Klay into the interview room here at the Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by MasterCard uh Patrick welcome back as as I just mentioned this is your second start here at Bay Hill finishing in a tire for

Fourth last year so if we could just get an opening comment from you on on being back yeah it’s great to be back um I hadn’t played it before last year but um now back two years in a row I played well last year it’s a golf course that’s you know historically particularly

Difficult and I think this year we’ll be more of the same uh the fairways are hard to hit and there’s a big penalty if you do miss the fairways and the greens look like they can get really firm especially if there’s no rain this week also finished in a tire for fourth in

Your most recent start on tour at the Genesis Invitational uh how’s your game feel coming into this week yeah feels good I had two weeks off and uh did some work back in Jupiter I was in California or on the west coast uh since almost Christmas so it’s nice to have a couple

Weeks uh back at home all right all we’ll take some questions out here if you have a question we’ll get a microphone to you we’ll start with Edgar in the third row yeah Patrick you mentioned the difficulty of the course it’s a change of pace maybe a little bit from some

Other other tourist stops do you do you like that that that it is yeah I do I think there’s a premium on driving the golf ball in the Fairway and I think you have to play really smart around this place there’s um you know some really tricky hole locations

And if you get out of position it’s really important to get the ball to the correct spot if you want to have a chance at scoring I mean uh it’s definitely one of the harder stops on tour and I really like um you know golf courses that are more on the challenging

End when you look at the golf rankings and winners thus far this season a lot of the top hasn’t gotten into the winner circle what what does that say about the depth on tour and in your case what do you think is the final ingredient that

Might get you there the final you said what to get you to the winner circle final ingredient for you but first off just the depth of tour based on the rankings and who’s winning thus far yeah I think it’s harder to win um out here

Than it ever has I think guys play more aggressively and the scores as you can see are are lower and lower seemingly uh every year I always Marvel at the beginning of the year how many underpar guys shoot at the sentury uh it’s essentially the same Golf Course um but

Guys keep shooting lower and lower and um yeah I mean I it’s uh I think winning you you got to keep putting yourself in position Time After Time excuse me and some of those weeks you get the right break at the right time you hit a couple putts that instead

Of going on the lip they go in and usually those are the weeks that that you win go over here in the front row to Adam Patrick we saw you you had got a bit of a tough Sunday and didn’t talk afterwards it came out that you were

Sick can you tell us a little bit about what what was going on that day yeah I just there was a flu going around in La um and I got sick on Friday night and I just was drained I just didn’t have any energy um but yeah even par on the

Weekends not not going to get it done ever experienced that before uh yeah I’ve played many tournaments you know not feeling my best before um kind of inopportune timing but no excuse we got one question in the third row back here Mike Brodsky Florida national news uh when you think about

The legacy of Arnold Palmer uh what has been his impact on you in your game or are there any other PGA Legends maybe that have had an impact as you were growing up in the game of golf yeah definitely I met Arnold Palmer once uh at the Palmer Cup in

2011 and um obviously with everything he’s done for the game and his history and Legacy it was a a real treat to meet him um as far as golfers that really have made an impact I mean Fred Couples is a good friend of mine and um you know

Someone I look up to and I’ve spent a decent amount of time with we’ll go to Doug in the front row here starting on the on the premise that you don’t have a a real glaring weakness in any part of your game was there ever I’m assuming

That’s fairly true but was there ever anything kind of in development years that you were not very good at that you had to work to become better at was there a weakness as a kid outside of [Laughter] uh yeah definitely I would say uh short game definitely like the first year I

Came back in 2017 uh chipping chipping around the greens rough for Fairway I think there’s a difference to playing golf courses that are easier and softer where I grew up just a standard country club or a standard Golf Club whether I would play tournaments growing up Junior golf or even high school golf

Where it didn’t demand as much around the greens both in in terms of technique and spin really because the greens were soft and so when I got to the upper end of amateur golf and then the beginning of my professional career my short game just wasn’t as

Sharp compared to the rest of my game and it was a little technique change and a lot more practice and really trying to learn how to spin the golf ball more because a lot of the golf courses I grew up on were really traditional back to front

Greens and if you missed it in the right spot you’re kind of always chipping uphill onto softer greens and so you start playing some tournaments in Texas or Florida and that’s not really an option so moving to Florida has been big for that uh as far as helping my

Development out of necessity then one other kind of related to that is for someone to be a considered a a good putter an elite putter do they have to start out that way do you have to be good putter as a kid I mean I’m sure tiger was a pretty

Good putter as a kid um I bet Jordan the same way and what have you is is it harder do you think if if you suck at putting to get better at it level I think you’ve I think you’ve seen guys that have that have been average or mediocre Putters that have

Turned into really good Putters Justin Rose sticks out um I know he had number of years where he was lower on The Strokes gain statistic and he’s had now a number of years with a new process that is you know one of the best Putters

On tour so I think you can do it it’s probably rarer than the other way I’m sure Denny’s always been a good putter we’ll go to Kathy over here all the way to the left I was listening to uh Colton OST and Drew STS as I was driving in today

And they were saying that there were 15 16 17 different players in this signature event than in the last signature event okay and so they were saying it seemed to them like it was giving opportunity to people to get into these events whereas before everyone was

So worried about how no one was ever going to be able to get into them is that is that the right amount do you feel like that’s that was the idea I think it was definitely the idea to try to get the best possible field in

All these events and so I think part of that is getting some of the guys that have played well this year um and I think the process is is doing that I think if you play well enough there’s no barrier to get in if you know very clearly that if

You play well one of the best um you know if you have one of the best West coasts you’re going to be in in the tournament this week so um yeah I think it’s I think it’s been good do you have another one yeah has Fred taught you any cool shots Fred

Yeah um I don’t necessarily pick his brain on golf so much just enjoy hanging with him he’s a good hang he is go to Bob in the middle P Patrick in your in your role as a um board member and all that’s going on behind the scenes have you directly spoken with

Anybody from the public investment fund I mean would it go to that point where you would be involved in that or or does that come from T people to relay those talks yeah I I have not so that mainly has been happening between tour um management and then it gets relayed

Back do you have any sense where we are with that at this point not anything to add other than what’s been reported just that talks are ongoing we go to Rex right here and I don’t know if you saw this morning but Liv go gave up its bid for

World ranking points okay given that idea can you envision a time in the next few years when the best players weren’t in the major championships because of that and if so is there a fix in your mind that even if they don’t get world ranking points how do you make sure that

The majors have the best fields yeah I think that’s you know up for the majors to decide their fields um you know the British Open and the US Open are obviously open events so there’s qualifying into those events the PGA and the Masters are more Invitational style and

So you know it’s really up to each individual tournament to determine the criteria to get into those events and that’s not really that’s not really on my radar go to Adam over here on the left Patrick sorry to the left Patrick right with Adam oh following up on what Rex

Just asked you do you think the world rankings is broken I think the world rankings has a very particular set of criteria and um I don’t know if broken is the right word but I think that there’s been so much uncertainty and change in the last couple years that it’s inevitable that

Things need to be updated or things need to be changed and I don’t know if we’ve worked through all the changes necessary compared to all the changes that have happened in the last couple years what what’s something in the golf world you do think needs to be

Changed that seems like a fair fair leading question um pretty open because you you don’t think the golf ball needs to change I don’t um I think trying trying to figure out how to appeal to more people and appeal to more fans is probably the biggest

Change that I would like to see I think if we can figure out a way to appeal to more people and get more people playing the game I think when people start playing the game and learn what it’s about that’s really an eye opener for

People I’ve I’ve met a or I have a number of friends that really didn’t play golf growing up and they’ve gotten in their late 20s or early 30s and they started playing and they become addicted to the game and now they’re fans and now they love playing playing the game

They’re not going and playing football they’re not going and playing basketball but they love going and playing golf I think in this new age where people’s attention span is less it’s rare to do something in person with your friends for four or 5 hours and I think

The more that we can kind of put our phones down and go out and be outside and do something with people that we enjoy I think that would be better for everyone but how many people actually put their phone down what percentage of society actually puts its phone down

Actually does yeah not not much how do you fix that I don’t I don’t have all the answers why not kind of um a couple things Pat one of the things you were just talking about a minute ago every time we hear about you know we got to

Make the game more appealing uh reach out to the fans Etc it seems like some of the answers we get are all related to television the broadcast does it go beyond that I mean is that a big part of it and it and and if it’s not then what

Are some of the other elements or Avenues I guess to to make it better I think that’s just one one window um although probably window that’s pretty big I mean a lot of people um you know one of their biggest connections to golf is viewing it and

Viewing um tournaments but I do think like I said earlier getting more people to play the game so that’s you know accessibility for example you know I my Foundation has a relationship with the scj junior tour so just getting more Juniors to be able to play the game and even enjoy tournament golf

Um I think is huge and you know I I was fortunate I grew up my dad put me in a tournament when I was nine and I didn’t really think much of it it felt the same as playing soccer or playing baseball I often think that if if my

Parents didn’t put me in golf tournaments when I was that age if I would ever make it to where I am now probably not um but if you think about how many kids play soccer and just grow up playing soccer or baseball or basketball um the more Juniors we can

Get exposed to golf and maybe enjoying tournament golf I I think that would just be fantastic because I think it is a great game with great values and um like I said I have friends that tell me all the time they wish they played younger because they love it now tiny

Detail here but how did you do in that 9-year-old tournament I think I uh was at y Belinda Country Club I think I four putted the last the last I definitely shot in the 40s my grandpa said it’s not it’s not good to four putt thought you were a

Good putter as a kid well that that took a little time all right Patrick thank you very much for your time and best of luck this week all right thank you