For Cantlay, pick any one of the putts at the BMW Championship that, if missed, would have left him behind Bryson DeChambeau.
Thanks to 24 holes of golf played at Caves Valley near Baltimore but really on Everest, Cantlay is no longer a solid, Top 10-ish player with vague promise.
A golf-starved, well-lubricated crowd spent Sunday hassling DeChambeau and falling in with Cantlay, whose visible emotions run the gamut from A to B.
DeChambeau missed his 11-footer.
As duels go, this might have triggered the most chatter since Tiger Woods held off Bob May at the 200 PGA Championship.
Amateur at Erin Hills, when his 19-year-old son, Servite High graduate and UCLA alum played a grinder with Russell Henley.
He ran home 20 putts of 10 feet or more, the most since the PGA Tour adopted Shotlink in 1999, and he also had the best strokes-gained-putting number since it became an official stat in 2004.
Had Cantlay missed that 15-footer he would have trailed DeChambeau by two shots with one hole left.
“He’s always prided himself on not succumbing to pressure.
DeChambeau’s frustration erupted on his final walk to the clubhouse when a fan, according to ESPN.com, yelled something about Brooks Koepka, DeChambeau’s willing antagonist.
“Patrick and I were texting earlier and he said this was the best bombers’ course he’d ever seen,” Steve Cantlay said.
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