A Fun Mystery Emerges From Kapalua: What Was Patrick Cantlay Referring To?
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The season opening Sentry TOC has a solid leaderboard and enough intrigue to keep golf fans intrigued, despite how drearily rain-softened Kapalua Plantation course has been playing.
Things got more interesting Friday when NBC/Golf Channel mics were opened up to let us listen in on Patrick Cantlay and caddie Matt Minister killing time with some light bantor about Mai Tais and “pampered $#@&’s.”
Whoa, say what?
Enjoy this until the PVB Police hunt this done and dispose of the clip:
Theories abound about what Cantlay was referring to in joking about the “pampered $#@&’s.”
Riggs at Barstool says this was a joking reference to Mark Rolfing wanting to see the players get traditional Kapalua wind, but Golf.com’s Garrett Johnston received this correction to the prevailing assumption from Cantlay’s bagman Minister.
“I know that Rolfing had nothing to do with that conversation,” Minister said. “I find it amusing people assuming they know what we are talking about. They are wrong.”
Minister added that the Mai Tai remark “caught me off guard. [Patrick] doesn’t drink.” (Minister’s not a Mai Tai guy, either. He said his post-round drink of choice this week has been a craft beer from Maui Brewing Company.)
So, what were Cantlay’s remarks in reference to? Minister declined to say.
“Makes it more fun,” he said, “keep y’all guessing.”
Johnston goes on to detail the response of the Golf Channel crew which ranged from suggesting he was not in the moment to a light scolding for lack of microphone awareness.
And while Cantlay will be fined for salty language, his previously undetectable Q-rating with the under 75 demographic is soaring today.
