Tour News

Patrick Cantlay’s long, hard road to returning to the Tour this week

Published

7 years ago

Feb 8, 2017

Once the top-ranked amateur in the world and a winner on the Web.com Tour, Patrick Cantlay hasn’t teed it up on the PGA Tour since 2014. The saga of the back injury that kept him out of action is depressing and unfortunate enough on its own right. But if you recall, the worst of what befell the former winner during his time in the wilderness has nothing to do with his back.

Cantlay’s caddie and friend, Chris Roth, was struck by a car and killed directly in front of the golfer last year in California. Cantlay had to call 911, knowing his friend had no chance of survival.

“It still bothers me every day,” Cantlay said. “It changes the way that you see things for a while. Maybe not forever, you get numb to it. For a while, I couldn’t care less about everything. Not just golf. Everything that happened in my life for a couple months didn’t feel important. Nothing felt like it mattered.”

To say it’s been a long road back to competition for Cantlay would be an extreme understatement. He returns to action at Pebble Beach this week, and Damian Dottore of the OC Register has filed a superb piece on the former amatuer sensation’s return that’s well worth your time.

You’ll be rooting for the former UCLA star hard this week. Here’s Dottore’s piece.

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Photos from the 2024 RBC Heritage

Published

4 days ago

Apr 16, 2024

GolfWRX Staff

GolfWRX is on site this week at Harbour Town Golf Links on Hilton Head Island for the RBC Heritage. Plenty of golfers who competed in the Masters last week will be making the quick turnaround in the Lowcountry of South Carolina as the Heritage is again one of the Tour’s Signature Events.

We have general albums for you to check out, as well as plenty of WITBs — including Justin Thomas and Justin Rose.

We’ll continue to update as more photos flow in from SC.

Check out links to all our photos, below.

General Albums

WITB Albums

Pullout Albums

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Photos from the 2024 Valero Texas Open

Published

3 weeks ago

Apr 1, 2024

GolfWRX Staff

GolfWRX is on site this week at the Valero Texas Open.

The event has been around since 1922, making it one of the oldest on the PGA Tour calendar. Over the years, it’s been held at a variety of courses across the Lone Star State, but it’s found its home at TPC San Antonio in recent years. Some of the biggest names in golf have taken home the title here, including Arnold Palmer, Ben Hogan, Lee Trevino, and Ben Crenshaw.

GolfWRX has its usual assortment of general galleries, WITBs and special pull-out albums. As always, we’ll continue to update the links below as more photos come in from TPC San Antonio.