There shall be not hat controversies at Royal Montreal – at the least not involving Patrick Cantlay.
Cantlay went sans headwear throughout final yr’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 selection 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 unique story, as Cantlay, at the least to date in apply, has been carrying 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 really match on there,” Furyk mentioned. “I feel numerous 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 properly for me, I’ll simply say. My head will flip purple after a day, however I would like them comfy. I feel we might each say that the clothes this yr, my guys like it.”