Patrick Cantlay

His back Nine 30 was the best in the tournament and he finished in a tie for 21st.

The following week, on June 24, Cantlay shot the lowest round in PGA Tour history by an amateur when he shot a course record 60 at the Travelers Championship at TPC River Highlands in Cromwell, Connecticut.

The following week, he finished as the low amateur at the AT&T National, finishing in a tie for 20th place.

The following week, Cantlay won the Southern California Amateur at the San Gabriel Country Club.

The following week he finished in a tie for 38th at the Greenbrier Classic.

At the time, he was also ranked 415th in the Official World Golf Ranking.

He earned his first professional paycheck at AT&T National, finishing in a tie for 66th.

Patrick Cantlay (born March 17, 1992) is an American professional golfer.

He had a successful amateur career and was the number one golfer in the World Amateur Golf Ranking for 55 weeks.

He has won eight times on the PGA Tour as well as the 2021 FedEx Cup.

He is a member of the 2022 class of the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame.

Cantlay was born in Long Beach, California to Steve and Colleen (Naylan) Cantlay, He has a sister, Caroline, and two brothers, Nick and Jack Cantlay.

He attended Servite High School where he won the California State High School Championship as a senior.

In his freshman year at UCLA, Cantlay won four tournaments and won the Haskins Award as the most outstanding college golfer in 2011.

He was also named the Golf Coaches Association of America (GCAA) Division I Jack Nicklaus National Player of the Year.

Cantlay also won the Phil Mickelson Award as the GCAA National Freshman of the Year in addition to being the Pac-10 Player of the Year and Freshman of the Year.

He also won the Mark H. McCormack Medal as the top-ranked amateur in the world at the end of the 2011 season.

Cantlay qualified for the 2011 U.S. Open through sectional qualifying.

He was one of three amateurs to make the cut along with Russell Henley and Brad Benjamin.

Rounds of 70 and 72 over the weekend ensured he was low amateur.

He was also low amateur at the 2011 RBC Canadian Open in July, finishing in a tie for ninth place.

On August 6, Cantlay lost to Ethan Tracy in the Western Amateur final at the North Shore Country Club in Glenview, Illinois.

On August 28, at Erin Hills in Erin, Wisconsin, he lost in the final of the U.S. Amateur to Kelly Kraft.

On March 23, 2011 he became world number 1 in the World Amateur Golf Ranking.

Cantlay represented the United States at the 2011 Walker Cup, where he posted a 2–1–1 record.

This award earned him an invitation to the 2012 Open Championship.

Making the finals earned him a spot in the 2012 Masters Tournament, where he finished in a tie for 47th, making him the low amateur.

In June 2012, Cantlay decided to forgo his final two years of college to turn professional.

The decision to go professional meant forfeiting his spot at the 2012 Open Championship.

His professional debut was at the 2012 Travelers Championship, where he missed the cut.

Prior to the Travelers, Cantlay announced he would be signing with Mark Steinberg and Excel Sports Management Group, the same management as Tiger Woods.

Cantlay was the number one amateur in the world before turning pro, holding the top spot for a record 55 weeks.

Cantlay earned his first professional win at the 2013 Colombia Championship, an event on the Web.com Tour.

In the 2013–14 season he played only five events due to a back injury and was granted an 11-event medical extension.

He played in the Web.com Tour Finals and finished 11th to earn his PGA Tour card for 2014.

He played in just one tournament the following season, in late 2014, but didn't play at all in 2015 or 2016.

He holds the records for most consecutive weeks at number one, 54, and held the record for most total weeks at number one, 55, until Jon Rahm eclipsed him in 2016.

In February 2016, his caddie, Chris Roth, was killed in a hit-and-run accident in Newport Beach, California while Roth and Cantlay were out on the town.

Roth had been a high school teammate of Cantlay's and had caddied for him in his amateur and professional career.

As of the start of the 2017 season, ten starts remained on his medical extension.